Narrating Our Healing Perspectives on Working Through Trauma

In the 1990'S, South Africa Surprised the World With a Peaceful, Negotiated Transition From Armed Conflict to an Inclusive Democracy. This Was Followed by the Ground-Breaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Established to Confront and Work Through a Troubled Past. the Search for Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, However, is Far From Completed; the Country is in Many Ways Still Burdened by Unresolved Individual and Collective Traumas. in This Book, Two Academics From the University of Cape Town, One a Psychologist and the Other a Literary Scholar, Explore the Importance of Narrative As a Way of Working Through Trauma.Although Written From Within a South African Context, the Work Has a Much Wider Relevance. It Offers Illuminating Perspectives on the Process of 'Narrating Our Healing' the Sharing of Personal Narratives, the Appropriation of Literary Narratives, and Above All, the Re-Creating of Life Narratives Shattered by Trauma. It is a Book About the Search for Meaning Wh