Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I 2. ‘La Muerte No Existe.’ The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the Resistance against the Irreversible Time of History 3. ‘We the Victims and Survivors Declare the Past to Be in the Present.’ The ‘New South Africa’ and the Legacy of Apartheid 4. ‘The Past Must Remain the Past.’ Time of History and Time of Justice in the ‘New Sierra Leone’ Part II 5. A Hard Time Thinking the Irrevocable. Why It Is So Difficult to Understand the Haunting Past 6. Searching for Other Times. Some Critiques of the Absent and Distant Past 7. Spectral times. Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Time 8. History and the Work of Mourning Conclusion

About the Author

Berber Bevernage is a post-doctoral research fellow at Ghent University, Belgium. His work has been published in History and Theory, Social History, and History Workshop Journal.

Reviews

"In the end, Bevernage accomplishes nothing less than a completely new understanding of the referential illusion of historical discourse ! As with many truly original works of criticism, Bevernage's arguments seem so perfectly obvious in hindsight ! Reading History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence is a humbling experience." Wulf Kansteiners, SUNY Binghamton "This book is already destined to become a classic." Chris Lorenz, Free University of Amsterdam