Narrating Transitional Justice by Paul Ugor, Bonny Ibhawoh - 9780228026235

Narrating Transitional JusticeMemory in the Age of Truth and Reconciliation\nAuthor(s): Paul Ugor, Bonny Ibhawoh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228026235, 978-0228026235\nSynopsis\nIn truth and reconciliation settings, particular narratives are recounted by victims, perpetrators, witnesses, and legal experts, each employing distinct rhetorical strategies. Their testimonies, reported by the media and represented in various cultural forms, profoundly influence public understanding and collective memory in post-conflict societies.\n\nAuthored by an interdisciplinary team of international scholars across the humanities and social sciences, policymakers, and cultural producers, Narrating Transitional Justice examines truth and reconciliation commissions as acts of public storytelling. Contributors elaborate on how these testimonies function as creative grist for cultural producers to reconstruc?