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Title:Saying the unspeakable: language and identity after Auschwitz as a narrative model for articulating memory in South Africa
Author:Grunebaum-Ralph, HeidiISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
Volume:8
Issue:2
Pages:13-23
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:offences against human rights
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Abstract:The aim of this article is to explore the ways in which memory is articulated in post-Shoah narrative and how its articulation facilitates the insertion of the survivor/narrator's voice in the world of a listening and therefore validating community. Through this examination the article explores ways in which memory comes to constitute new histories in a South African context, and more specifically the histories constituted through the articulation of memory of victims and survivors of human rights abuses in South Africa. The article explores the ways in which the articulation of memory constitutes a testimonial process which implicates the witness/survivor in an address. The testimonial process is thus one that finally seeks a listener, a responsive Other. In this way, giving voice to memory creates a discursive site of collective witnessing. Bibliogr.
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