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'Gendered histories and the politics of subjectivity, memory and historical consciousness - a study of two black women's experiences of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process and the aftermath.'

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

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/19861
Date01 March 2016
CreatorsLetlaka, Palesa Nthabiseng
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf

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