Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society
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Data de Publicação: | 2014 |
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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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Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured SocietyTruth and Reconciliation CommissionRemorseForgivenessApartheidCinemaChange 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.Fundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaCentro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de LisboaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaHorta, Paula Alexandra, 1967-2014-09-02T12:24:17Z20142014-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/11834engRevista Anglo Saxonica, Série III, Nº7. Lisboa: 2014. Pp. 117-1320873-0628info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T15:57:46Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/11834Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:35:11.345591Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society |
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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 |
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Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society |
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Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society |
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Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society |
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Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society |
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Long Night's Journey Into Day: Mapping the Rehabilitation of South Africa's Fractured Society |
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Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967- |
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Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967- |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Horta, Paula Alexandra, 1967- |
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Remorse Forgiveness Apartheid Cinema |
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Remorse Forgiveness Apartheid Cinema |
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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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2014 |
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2014-09-02T12:24:17Z 2014 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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Revista Anglo Saxonica, Série III, Nº7. Lisboa: 2014. Pp. 117-132 0873-0628 |
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