Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society

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Autor(a) principal: Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967-
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/11834
Resumo: 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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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
title Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
spellingShingle Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967-
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Remorse
Forgiveness
Apartheid
Cinema
title_short Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
title_full Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
title_fullStr Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
title_full_unstemmed Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
title_sort Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
author Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967-
author_facet Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967-
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967-
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Remorse
Forgiveness
Apartheid
Cinema
topic Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Remorse
Forgiveness
Apartheid
Cinema
description 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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