What is it about?
This article visits the intersection between literary and non-literary responses to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, with particular respect to women's testimony or silence. J.M. Coetzee's controversial 1998 novel _Disgrace_ is set against accounts of women's testimony at the TRC with the work of anthropologist Fiona Ross serving as a crucial bridge here.
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Why is it important?
The article tries to disentangle various misconceptions about silence, testimony and collective memory.
Perspectives
This article represents the continuation of themes I first raised in my work on the TRC in my 2006 work _Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath_. As always, questions of mourning and of social redress necessarily reflect on my status as a South African who grew up under apartheid.
Louise Bethlehem
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This page is a summary of: Now that all is said and done: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511676178.009.
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