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Title Reconciliation as narrative: witnessing against a too easy and a too difficult reconciliation
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9789
Date 2008
Author(s) Botha, N.
Abstract After the dawn of democracy in South Africa in 1994 diverse paradigms on reconciliation have appeared on the scene. In this article these paradigms are not discredited so much for being downright unproductive, but they are found to be either too prescriptive as is the case with the TRC or too limited as is the case with the three paradigms of which mere sketches are offered. The main thrust of the article is a proposal on developing reconciliation as narrative in contradistinction to a dogmatic, technical approach to reconciliation as something to be organised, to be prescribed and engineered. The basic thesis of the article is that narrative can potentially create vast space for story-telling and for many more voices to be heard on the issue of reconciliation. The notion of narrative is advanced as a serious academic category and not an intellectual fad. A further issue is illustrating how issues like remembering, forgiveness and justice need to be brought into discourse with reconciliation. - http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1525162
Subject(s) Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- South Africa; First person narrative; Narration (Rhetoric); Reminiscing; Forgiveness; Justice
Language en
Publisher Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria
Type of publication Article
Rights Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria
Identifier Botha, N 2008, 'Reconciliation as narrative: witnessing against a too easy and a too difficult reconciliation', Verbum et Ecclesia, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 655-680. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_verbum.html]; 1609-9982
Repository Pretoria - University of Pretoria, UPSpace
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