Abstract
The use of religious models in political arena has been a vital tool in the hands
of politicians in order to achieve secular objectives, unattainable otherwise. In
current research several Confessional features are discussed, with particular
emphasis on political confession where a religious practice (confession) is
maneuvered to support political acrobats in South African post-apartheid
politics. The research evaluates the authenticity of confessional model
introduced in South African Truth and reconciliation commission (TRC); a
post-apartheid political practice. Current research gauges the relationship of
confession and forgiveness in South African context in the light of Coetzee’s
Disgrace. The authenticity of contrition is discussed which is the pivotal
element in this whole process. This paper evaluates TRC in reference to justice
and the grant of amnesty to the violators of gross human rights, how justice is
abrogated in order to bring reconciliation. The way TRC attached
reconciliation to forgiveness was wrong in its very roots.
The fiction of dignity helps to define humanity and the status of
humanity helps to define human rights. There is thus a real
sense in which an affront to our dignity strikes at our rights. Yet
when, outraged at such affront, we stand on our rights and
demand redress, we would do well to remember how
insubstantial the dignity is on which those rights are based.
Naveed Ahmad, Amtul Hadia. (2020) Politics of confession: A political reading of Coetzee’s Disgrace, Islamabad Islamicus, Volume-02, Issue-3.
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