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MacCurdy probes and complicates contemporary orthodoxies regarding both writing and healing and justice and healing. Focusing on trauma theory, the conventions of the trauma memoir, global political realities over the last century, and the political realities of South Africa over the last fifty or so years, MacCurdy examines questions of justice and healing in situations where punishment for terrible crimes against masses of people is not possible. MacCurdy's analysis is energized by her own Armenian heritage, which places her in a position that resonates with that of many South Africans, including Gillian Slovo. |
