Narrating rape at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa

The seven women who shared their stories of rape at the human rights violation hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ('TRC') in South Africa offer a nascent public record of women's experiences of rape under apartheid. This project is motivated by a desire to examine how these testimonies of rape were affected by explicit and implicit underlying narrative frameworks associated with the language of the TRC, and that of rape. In particular, this project analyses the extent to which the juxtaposition of these two frameworks at the TRC may have either enabled or constrained the seven women's narratives.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Political Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Rattazzi, Erin Alexis

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Du Toit, André
• Simons, Mary

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14273

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14273