Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Figures ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: The Aesthetics of Transitional Justice: Narrativity, History and Memory 1
7. Part I: Transitional Justice and Imaginative Work: Historical Reflections
8. 1. The Invention of Difficult Pasts 43
9. 2. A Storage Place of Memory: Misremembered Narratives of Reconciliation, Restoration, and Betrayal 55
10. Part II: Representation and the Politics of Memory
11. 3. Recovering Ancestral Memory in Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and “The Parlemo” 73
12. 4. The Disappeared: Memory, Narratives, and Representation in Colombia 98
13. 5. What Is a Transitional Narrative? 131
14. 6. The Politicization of Memory: Genocide Narratives, Transitional Justice, and the Art of Social Cohesion in Post-Conflict Rwanda 154
15. 7. One Hundred Years of Solitude: Memory, Impunity and Human Rights 184
16. Part III: The Arts, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice
17. 8. Between Justice and Truth: The Legal Prosecution of Third Reich Crimes in Giulio Ricciarelli’s Labyrinth of Lies 203
18. 9. History on Film in Post-Genocide Rwanda (2004–14): “Everybody has got a different story” 224
19. 10. Unbraiding the Significance of Testimony, Ceremony, Healing, and Hair in Three Contemporary First Nations Plays 247
20. 11. The Moment of Maneuver in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Hearings: A Critique of Nation and Narration in Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull 269
21. 12. Art and Justice in Bakhtiyar Ali’s Shari Mosiqare Spiyekan 295
22. Part IV: History, Narrativity, and Trauma
23. 13. Memorial Museums in Guatemala: Agents of Transitional Justice 325
24. 14. The Haunts of Biafra Atrocity Photography 350
25. 15. Phantoms and Truth Commissions: The Subversive Power of Alternative Narratives in Post-Conflict Latin America 369
26. Contributors 389
27. Index 395
28. Series Editors 417