ABSTRACT
The previous four, more ethnographic chapters situated traumatic storytelling on other stages besides the TRC’s, describing this testimonial practice as a personal and psychological process of recovery (Chapter 3), as a form of social and moral community-building (Chapter 4), as a mode of economistic practice (Chapter 5), and as a type of expressive and political action (Chapter 6). On each of these other stages, the chapters have examined how the relationships between memory, power, and subjectivity emerged and transformed over time. They related traumatic storytelling to local lay and professional models of psychology, to competing understandings of sociality and moral community, to new entrepreneurial forms of narrative exchange, and to the fight between victims and the new state around the issue of reparations. The remaining three chapters synthesize and extend these discussions of power and subjectivity and situate them within a broader range of local, national, and global contexts and concerns.
