Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Rita Kesselring

Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Stanford Studies in Human Rights

Rita Kesselring

272 pages first pub 2016 (view editions)

nonfiction politics sociology
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Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory. In 2002, victims of apartheid-era violence filed sui...

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