In Search of Memory
F06
Mansour Farhang
According to the former Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who chaired the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “Nations are built through sharing experiences, memories, a history….” In this course, we explore the issues of both individual and national identity. We look at the role of memories and shared experiences in the creation of democratic South Africa—its divided past and its present search for unity in diversity. In the process we try to understand how the experiences of this fractured past is being reinterpreted within the framework of a common identity.