Narrating Transitional Justice

Paul Ugor is professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo.Bonny Ibhawoh is Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights at McMaster University and co-editor of Truth Commissions and State Building.

• Figures ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: The Aesthetics of Transitional Justice: Narrativity, History and Memory 3Paul Ugor and Bonny IbhawohPart One: Transitional Justice and ImaginativeWork: Historical Reflections1 The Invention of Difficult Pasts 43Juan Gabriel Vásquez2 A Storage Place of Memory: Misremembered Narratives of Reconciliation, Restoration, and Betrayal 55Zakes MdaPart Two: Representation and the Politics of Memory3 Recovering Ancestral Memory in Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and “The Parlemo” 73Shane Graham4 The Disappeared: Memory, Narratives, and Representation in Colombia 98Julian Numpaque5 What Is a Transitional Narrative? 131Valeria Vegh Weis6 The Politicization of Memory: Genocide Narratives, Transitional Justice, and the Art of Social Cohesion in Post-Conflict Rwanda 154Adeolu Oyekan7 One Hundred Years of Solitude: Memory, Impunity, and Human Rights 184Alfredo Duplat and Andrés Molina OchoaPart Three: The Arts, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice8 Between Justice and Truth: The Legal Prosecution of Third Reich Crimes in Giulio Ricciarelli’s Labyrinth of Lies 203Pascal Michelberger9 History on Film in Post-Genocide Rwanda (2004–14): “Everybody has got a different story” 224Alison MacAulay10 Unbraiding the Significance of Testimony, Ceremony, Healing, and Hair in Three Contemporary First Nations Plays 247Juliann Knaus11 The Moment of Maneuver in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Hearings: A Critique of Nation and Narration in Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull 269Paul Ugor12 Art and Justice in Bakhtiyar Ali’s Shari Mosiqare Spiyekan 295Jeannette OkurPart Four: History, Narrativity, and Trauma13 Memorial Museums in Guatemala: Agents of Transitional Justice 325Martha C. Galvan Mandujano and JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz14 The Haunts of Biafra Atrocity Photography 350Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba15 Phantoms and Truth Commissions: The Subversive Power of Alternative Narratives in Post-Conflict Latin America 369Alfredo Duplat and Andrés Molina OchoaContributors 389Index 395

"This first-rate volume offers a profound justification for why we need stories for a proper conception of transitional justice." Chielozona Eze, author of Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination