A research report submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Arts
(History)
February 2013 / This study examines the gendered histories of two black women who both narrated their
personal testimonies in self-authored narrations for public consumption, and who both
testified at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It situates the
politics of subjectivity, memory and historical consciousness within the social constructivist
and hermeneutical theoretical frameworks of Butler and Ricoeur respectively; and through a
generative process, working with their TRC testimonies and subsequent oral interviews, it
examines self-narrativity, subject formation and the formation of female selfhood in the
formation of gendered historical consciousness
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/19861 |
| Date | 01 March 2016 |
| Creators | Letlaka, Palesa Nthabiseng |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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