Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions: A comparative analysis

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Andrews, Molly ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cultural memory; East Germany; Forgiveness; National narratives; South Africa; Truth commissions; Victim perpetrator encounters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037248341     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443703025001633     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Andrews, M. (1998) 'One Hundred Miles of Lives: The Stasi Files as a People's History of East Germany', Oral History 26(1): 24-31.
2. Andrews, M. (forthcoming) 'Continuity and Discontinuity of East German Identity Following the Fall of the Berlin Wall', in P. Gready (ed.) Cultures of Political Transition. London: Pluto Press.
3. Ash, T.G. (1997) The File: A Personal History. New York: Harper Collins.
4. Berdahl, D. (1999) ' "(N)Ostalgie" for the Present: Memory, Longing, and East German Things', Ethnos 64(2): 192-211.
5. Boraine, A. and J. Levy (eds) (1995) The Healing of a Nation. Cape Town: Justice in Transition.
6. Christie, Kenneth (2000) The South African Truth Commission. London: Palgrave.
7. Darnton, R. (1991) Berlin Journal 1989-1990 New York: W.W. Norton.
8. Davis, N.Z. and R. Starn (1989) 'Introduction', Special Issue on Memory and Counter-memory, Representations 26: 1-6.
9. De Brito, A.B., C. Gonzalez-Enriques and P. Aguilar (eds) (2001) The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. Du Toit, André (2000) 'The Moral Foundations of the South African TRC: Truth as Acknowledgement and Justice as Recognition', in R. Rotberg and D. Thompson (eds) Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
11. Foucault, M. (1977) Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Oxford: Blackwell.
12. Fulbook, Mary (1997) 'Reckoning with the Past: Heroes, Victims, and Villains in the History of the German Democratic Republic', in Reinhard Alter and Peter Monteath (eds) Rewriting the German Past: History and Identity in the New Germany. New Jersey: Humanities Press.
13. Halbwachs, M. (1950/1980) The Collective Memory. New York: Harper and Row.
14. Hayner, P. (1995) 'Fifteen Truth Commissions - 1974-1994: A Comparative Study', in N. Kritz (ed.) Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, vol. 1. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press.
15. Hayner, P. (2001) Unspeakable Truths: Confronting state Terror and Atrocity London: Routledge.
16. Henry, Yazir (forthcoming) 'Reconciling Reconciliation: A Personal and Public Journey of Testifying before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission', in P. Gready (ed.) Cultures of Political Transition. London: Pluto Press.
17. Human Rights Program (1997) Truth Commissions: A Comparative Assessment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law School and World Peace Foundation.
18. Irwin-Zarecka, I. (1994) Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
19. Kamali, Maryam (2001) 'Accountability for Human Rights Violations: A Comparison of Transitional Justice in East Germany and South Africa', Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 40(1): 89-142.
20. Kritz, Neil (ed.) (1995) Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes, vol. II, Country Studies. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace.
21. Krog, A. (1998) Country of my Skull. Johannesburg: Random House.
22. Maier, C. (1997) Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
23. McAdams, A.J. (2001) Judging the Past in Unified Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Miller, Barbara (1999) Narratives of Guilt and Compliance in Unified Germany: Stasi Informers and their Impact on Society. London: Routledge.
25. Minow, M. (1998) Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
26. Ntsebeza, D.B. (1998) 'The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Its Process and Actions: Victims, Perpetrators and Findings', unpublished paper presented at 'Burying the Past: Justice, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Politics of South Africa, Guatemala, East Germany and Northern Ireland', Oxford University.
27. Renan, E. (1882/1990) 'What is a Nation?', in H. Bhabha (ed.) Nation and Narration. London: Routledge.
28. Osiel, M. (1997) Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory and the Law. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
29. Siebert, R. (1992) 'Don't Forget: Fragments of a Negative Tradition', in L. Passerini (ed.), Memory and Totalitarianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
30. Soyinka, Wole (1999) The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
31. Sturken, M. (1997) Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
32. Thelen, D. (1989) 'Memory and American History', Journal of American History 75: 1117-29.
33. TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) (1998) Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, vol. 5. Cape Town: Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
34. Tutu, Desmond (1996) 'Healing a Nation', Index on Censorship, Special Issue: Wounded Nations, Broken Lives: Truth Commissions and War Tribunals 5: 38-53.
35. Tutu Desmond (1998) 'Chairperson's Foreword', in Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report. Cape Town: Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
36. Villa-Vicencio, Charles (1998) 'The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Some Guiding Principles: Justice, Amnesty and Reconciliation', unpublished paper presented at 'Burying the Past: Justice, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Politics of South Africa, Guatemala, East Germany and Northern Ireland', Oxford University.
37. Villa-Vicencio, Charles and Wilhelm Verwoerd (2000) 'Constructing a Report: Writing up the "Truth" ', in R. Rotberg and D. Thompson (eds) Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
38. Weber, Hermann (1997) 'Rewriting the History of the German Democratic Republic: The Work of the Commission of Inquiry', in Reinhard Alter and Peter Monteath (eds) Rewriting the German Past: History and Identity in the New Germany. New Jersey: Humanities Press.
39. Weschler, L. (1990) A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. New York: Pantheon Books.
40. Wilson, R. (1996) 'The Sizwe Will not go Away: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Human Rights and Nation-building in South Africa', African Studies 55(2): 1-20.
41. Wilson, R. (2001) The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-apartheid State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. Wolf, C. (1997) Parting from Phantoms: Selected Writings, 1990-1994. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
43. Woods, N. (1999) Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe. Oxford: Berg.
44. Yoder, Jennifer (1999) 'Truth without Reconciliation: An Appraisal of the Enquete Commission on the SED Dictatorship in Germany', German Politics 8(3): 59-80.