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Vol. 35 No 1-2 (2010): Afrique et développement: Numéro spécial sur la langue, la littérature et le pouvoir dans l'espace public

4- Negotiating Nation-building and Citizenship through the Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s ‘Dramatic’ Spheres: A Reading of Two Post-apartheid Plays

https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v35i1-2.70194
Busuyi Mekusi

Corresponding Author(s) : Busuyi Mekusi

mekusotayo@yahoo.com

Afrique et développement, Vol. 35 No 1-2 (2010): Afrique et développement: Numéro spécial sur la langue, la littérature et le pouvoir dans l'espace public

Résumé

Avoir une voix, que ce soit au niveau individuel ou communautaire, a été l’un des moyens ataviques de définition et d’affirmation de l’humanité. Cela tient compte de l’inscription de l’hégémonie à double face des succès ou victoires et des frustrations tant au niveau de l’espace privé que de la sphère publique. Les perturbations de cette possibilité par des clivages entre les autochtones en Afrique du Sud précoloniale ont empiré sous le feu de la répression coloniale que ce pays a subie et ont été aggravées par le régime d’apartheid. En raison de cette mauvaise administration, des voix ont été réprimées, avec quelques cacophonies de dissension. Le paroxysme de ces désenchantements vers la fin de l’apartheid présageait significativement la nécessité de la reconstruction et la redéfinition de la citoyenneté et de la cohabitation, et donc la nécessité d’établir une sphère publique, ou sinon établir un domaine public, sous la forme de la Commission vérité et réconciliation de l’archevêque Desmond Tutu. Cet article vise donc à examiner le (s) monde (s) dramatique (s) créé (s) à l’aide des propriétés matérielles du TRC dans Nothing but the Truth de John Kani et The Bells of Amersfoort de Zakes Mda. L’article soutient que la domination et la manipulation de ce domaine public par l’État au détriment de l’individu n’est pas seulement nuisible, mais constitue un rejet de la pertinence de telles sphères. Cet article, en parcourant les indexes de ces pièces, conclut donc que tout individu doit non seulement avoir une voix et être entendu, mais aussi jouir de son droit à une participation égale impartiale. Sinon, la sphère publique ne serait impuissante et l’idée de construction de la nation et de la citoyenneté souhaitable ne serait rien d’autre qu’un simple stratagème.

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Édification de la nation Citoyenneté Comité de réconciliation Post-apartheid Afrique du Sud
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Mekusi, B. 2021. 4- Negotiating Nation-building and Citizenship through the Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s ‘Dramatic’ Spheres: A Reading of Two Post-apartheid Plays. Afrique et développement. 35, 1-2 (sept. 2021). DOI:https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v35i1-2.70194.
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Busuyi Mekusi

Department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Email: mekusotayo@yahoo.com

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