The Difficulty of Reconciliation after the St James Church Attack

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" The Difficulty of Reconciliation after the St James Church Attack "
Garth John Mason

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083029
Doc. No	:	LA126658
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02501007‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Garth John Mason
Title & Author	:	The Difficulty of Reconciliation after the St James Church Attack [Article]\ Garth John Mason
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	25/1-2
Page No	:	1–30
Abstract	:	This article is a comparative reading of the autobiography Child of this Soil: My Life as a Freedom Fighter by Letlapa Mphahlele and the memoir by Charl van Wyk, Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defence. The two texts culminate in recounting of the St. James Church attack in 1993 and the two men’s subsequent reconciliatory meetings. Mphahlele ordered the attack as an APLA commander and Van Wyk was the parishioner who fired back at the APLA attackers. Of interest are the conditions of possibility for dialogue between Van Wyk and Mphahlele in the context of the national narrative of reconciliation. This article is a comparative reading of the autobiography Child of this Soil: My Life as a Freedom Fighter by Letlapa Mphahlele and the memoir by Charl van Wyk, Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defence. The two texts culminate in recounting of the St. James Church attack in 1993 and the two men’s subsequent reconciliatory meetings. Mphahlele ordered the attack as an APLA commander and Van Wyk was the parishioner who fired back at the APLA attackers. Of interest are the conditions of possibility for dialogue between Van Wyk and Mphahlele in the context of the national narrative of reconciliation.
Descriptor	:	Charl van Wyk
Descriptor	:	dialogue
Descriptor	:	Emmanuel Levinas
Descriptor	:	Letlapa Mphahlele
Descriptor	:	Paul Ricoeur
Descriptor	:	reconciliation
Descriptor	:	religion
Descriptor	:	St. James Church attack
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02501007‬