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 9780804750745, 0804750742

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100 Selzer, Mark, 5

69ff, 82-83; representation of, i-4ff,

1366 23> 35. 73-74. 104-10; secondary, 9. 35. 52-53. 58,

64

Sensation, 7-8

“Trauma” (exhibition), 3

Sense memory, 25-34, 38ff, 57, 58,161

Trauma envy, 5

Seremetakis, Nadia, 51-52, 54, 59

Trauma studies, 4-5, 23, 150-51

Serres, Michel, 1, 19

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Shadow of Doubt (Issermann), 15-16

(South Africa), 6, 16, 86, 100, 102, in;

Shame, 108-9

artistic representations of, 13-14,

Sharpeville, 93, 94

73-74, 104-10, 112-23

Sherman, Cindy, 140

Tutu, Desmond, 106,109

Shoah (Lanzmann), 1, 8-9, 31, 58,158 Shock, 11, 50 Shyamalan, M. Night, 46

IJbu and the Truth Commission (Taylor), 13-14, 112-23, 2/46 118, i2o£

Silverman, Kaja, 9

Ubu Roi, 112

Sixth Sense, The (Shyamalan), 46, 47-48,

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), 99-100

50

Undiscovered Genius (Basquiat), 131, 147

Skin, 41-43

United States, response to 9/11, 20

Skotnes, Pippa, 89-91

Unland (Salcedo), 60-61

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 77

Untitled (Salcedo), 51, 53, 60, 62f

South Africa, 13, 71-74, 86, 93, 99,104-5.

Untitled: History of Black People

See also Truth and Reconciliation

(Basquiat), 131, 139

Commission Space. See Place

Van Alphen, Ernst, 4, 35, 89-90,152

Spivak, Gayatri, 105,121,123,145

Van der Kolk, Bessel, 23, 26

Subjectivity, 12

Velez, Sylvia, 65-66 Victims, 16, 18, 64, 97-98; moral author¬

Tal, Kali, 4

ity of, 5, 26-28

Taylor, Jane, 13, 112

Video,16

Television news, 54-55, 104,106,108

Viewing conditions, 64-65

“Telling Tales” (exhibition), 1-2

Violence, political, 17

Terrorism, 19-20, 159c See also 9/11

Virilio, Paul, 85, 90

attacks; War on Terror Testimony, 3-4, 6, 61, 104-5, m> 119-21.

Vlakplaas: 2 June 1999 (Drive-byShooting) (Ractliffe), 94, 100

See also Holocaust testimony; War testimony Thibeletsa, Motseokae Klas, 32

To Kill an Impulse (Johnston), 50-51, 51 f, 54-57. 58

Tomkins, Silvan, 109

War on Terror, 18-19,128. See also 9 hi attacks War testimony, 23. See also Testimony Waterwitch, Robert, 100

Welts (Bennett), 39,143

188

Index

Western Cape Action Tour (WECAT), 99-102

Women’s studies, 4 Wound culture, 5

Western Deep (McQueen), 151 Widowed House {Casa Viuda) (Salcedo), 60, 61

Yale Holocaust testimony archive, 104-5

Williams, Coline, 100

Young, James, 98

Willis, Bruce, 46

Younge, Gavin, 87, 90, 91-93, 96f,

Winnicott, D. W., 33, 141 Witnessing, 31

Zizek, Slavoj, 93,167

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 48, 50

Zokufa, Busi, 122

Cultural Memory

in the Present

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