Healing South African Wounds

• Other Authors: Teulié, Gilles (Editor), Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montpellier Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2009
• Series: Horizons anglophones
• Subjects: Political science & theory; education; South Africa; social policy; social policies; truth and reconciliation commission; South African literature; Afrikaners
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela's famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the 'new'...