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Performing South Africa's Truth Commission : stages of transition / Catherine M. Cole.
Van Pelt Library DT1974.2 .C65 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cole, Catherine M.
- Series:
- African expressive cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- South Africa.
- Television broadcasting of news--Social aspects--South Africa.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Discourse analysis--South Africa.
- Discourse analysis.
- Reconciliation--Social aspects--South Africa--History.
- Reconciliation.
- Apartheid--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Television broadcasting of news--Social aspects.
- Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
- Post-apartheid era.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commissions as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.
- Contents:
- Spectacles of legality: performance, transitional justice, and the law
- Justice in transition : political trials, 1956-1964
- Witnessing and interpreting testimony : live, present, public, and speaking in many tongues
- Eyes and ears of the nation : television and the implicated witness
- Dragons in the living room : truth and reconciliation in repertoire, 2006
- Conclusion
- Afterword : what "truth" meant to the TRC.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253353900
- 0253353904
- 9780253221452
- 0253221455
- OCLC:
- 313659224
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