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Long Night's Journey Into Day: mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
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Change has been a recurring keyword in every domain of thought and action in South Africa since the dismantlement of apartheid and the implementation of democracy following the 1994 democratic elections. Politically, legally, and symbolically, this process broke with an extensive period of oppression and violation of human rights. However, the new government believed that the most significant
change in social consciousness would take place at the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission’s public hearings. The TRC was seen as a vehicle for social repair which
provided release from the legacy of fear, hatred, revenge and guilt, and redirected
people’s desire for vengeance. I approach this theme by considering Frances Reid’s
(2000) cinematographic treatment of the role of compassion and forgiveness in healing severed relationships and promoting a course of action capable of transfiguring social exchange and providing new grounds of human community in the documentary film Long Night’s Journey Into Day.
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Remorse Forgiveness Apartheid Cinema
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Revista Anglo Saxonica, Série III, Nº7. Lisboa: 2014. Pp. 117-132
Editora
Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa