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African Studies
Sending up trauma : a study of political cartooning in South Africa's post-apartheid trauma discourse
Abstract
dc:description.abstract[The] idea of the collective trauma has been applied to South Africa in the period of transition from apartheid to democracy. Especially during the hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as the commission invested heavily in the practice of traumatic storytelling as part the broader globalization of psychiatric knowledge about trauma (Colvin, 2008). Political cartoons shed an interesting light on the establishment and development of trauma discourse. This study looks at the contribution of South African political cartoonists to trauma discourse at the time of the hearings of the Human Rights Violations Committee (HRVC) of the TRC.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- African Studies
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2012
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Roosblad, Serginho Calvin
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Grunebaum, Heidi
- Garuba, Harry
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11938
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11938