Little Perpetrators, Witness-Bearers and the Young and the Brave: Towards a Post-Transitional Aesthetics

The article explores how children and young people are represented in literary and visual narratives dealing with political violence, historical trauma, and transitional justice. Moving beyond the traditional "transition" paradigm—which frames societies progressing from dictatorship to democracy—the author argues for a post-transitional aesthetics that recognizes the complexity of youth roles in violent histories.
Children are depicted not only as victims but also as perpetrators, witnesses, and moral agents, complicating established ethical and narrative frameworks. The article analyses how these representations challenge simplified national redemption stories and open new ways of understanding memory, culpability, and agency. Ultimately, it proposes that post-transitional aesthetics foreground ambiguity, intergenerational responsibility, and the unresolved nature of collective trauma.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Flockemann, Miki

Đề mục:

Literary studies

Nhà xuất bản:

Taylor & Francis

Ngày xuất bản:

2010

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Định dạng:

pdf

Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2010.488333

Nguồn gốc:

English Studies in Africa, Volume 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-34,122

Liên kết:

ISSN 0013-8398

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Little Perpetrators, Witness-Bearers and the Young and the Brave: Towards a Post-Transitional Aesthetics

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