Truth and consequences: Art in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Art and the Performance of Memory: Sounds and Gestures of Recollection

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 37-62

  Marlin Curiel, Stephanie ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957372773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203220238     Document Type: Chapter

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