Improvising Reconciliation – Confession after the Truth Commission Charlton

Improvising ReconciliationConfession after the Truth Commission\nAuthor(s): Ed Charlton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800349261, 978-1800349261\nSynopsis\nAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\n\nImprovising Reconciliation is prompted by South Africas enduring state of injustice. It is both a lament for the promise, since lost, with which non-racial democracy was inaugurated and, more substantially, a space within which to consider its possible renewal. As such, this study lobbies for an expanded approach to the countrys formal transition from apartheid in order to grapple with reconciliations ongoing potential within the contemporary imaginary. It does not, however, presume to correct the contradictions that have done so much to corrupt the concept in recent decades. Instead, it upholds the language of reconciliati.