Negotiating the archive: Amnesty, justice and memory
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2009
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South African Journal of Criminal Justice
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University of Cape Town
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This article represents an encounter between Antje Du Bois-Pedain's recent Transitional Amnesty in South Africa and Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever I argue that Du Bois-Pedain's work is magisterial in the sense that relates it to the meaning of the archive identified in Derrida's text. Taking the Derridean argument a step further I aim to illustrate that this text-as-archive reveals a glimpse of its own death drive - it is conscious of its unconscious. I argue that the death drive of the archive is here ultimately resisted/countered precisely by Du Bois-Pedain's willingness to confront the outside of the archive that is this work.
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Barnard-Naude, A. J. (2009). Negotiating the archive: Amnesty, justice and memory: review article of Antje Du Bois-Pedain Transitional Amnesty in South Africa: review article. South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 22(3), 419-432.