Abstract

CABANILLAS, Natalia. Incorporating the nation: african women and the south african truth and reconciliation committee. Nómadas [online]. 2013, n.38, pp.99-113. ISSN 0121-7550.

The article studies the truth regimes created within the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) related to the racial and gender issues in post-apartheid South Africa. Through a documentary and bibliographical analysis it is shown how the legal concept of victim and the implicit notion of physical integrity re-invented the gender and race hierarchies. It is stated that within the TRC the said categories gave a frame to the testimonies and restored to normal the victims' memories.

Keywords : post-apartheid; memory; race; gender; victim; physical integrity.

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