Yvette Hutchison. South African Performance and Archives of Memory

“Memory is a weapon. Only a long rain will clean away these tears” (1) is the epigraph of the introduction of Yvette Hutchison’s book, South African Performance and Archives of Memory, an insightful contribution to the understanding of memory and the process of negotiating it in contemporary South Africa. In No Future Without Forgiveness, Archbishop Desmond Tutu in fact highlights the importance of the past and the process of remembering it in a country like South Africa: “The past, far from ...