This introduction chapter begins by outlining the main features of the South African Truth
and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) proceedings, as well as drawing attention to the …

In his 2007 book The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror, Simon Joyce uses the rear-view
mirror as a metaphor to illustrate the complicated temporality inherent in the twentieth …

Introduction in Hawaii (1993), with the following assertion:“Despite American political and
territorial control of Hawai'i since 1898, Hawaiians are not Americans. Nor are we …

This paper seeks to proffer different ways of reading Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother. It
is intended to be a treatise on possible approaches that may be taken in trying to unpack the …

My thesis examines the intersections between trauma and narrative in the context of the
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which was established in 1995 …

ABSTRACT Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother, a fictional rendition of Amy Biehl's murder,
has been analyzed as a text that challenges the TRC's reconciliatory philosophy, generates …

Mother to Mother, published in 1998, was written by Sindiwe Magona, a female South
African author whose work mainly evokes social and political concerns, particularly …

abstract Against the contemporary universalist injunction to 'be empathetic', this paper
explores the possibilities of what I call 'alternative empathies' in the aftermath of the Atlantic …