The courtroom as a space of resistance : reflections on the legacy of the Rivonia trial /

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Imprint:Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, ©2015.
Description:ix, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh/Glasgow law and society series
Edinburgh/Glasgow law and society series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10393631
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Other authors / contributors:Allo, Awol Kassim, editor.
ISBN:9781472444608 (hbk)
1472444604 (hbk)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The courtroom as a space of resistance : reflections on the legacy of the Rivonia trial / Awol Allo
  • In the name of Mandela / Derek Hook
  • When time gives : reflections on two Rivonia renegades / Johan van der Walt
  • Nelson Mandela and civic myths : a law and literature approach to Rivonia / Peter Leman
  • Justice in transition : South Africa political trials, 1956-1964 / Catherine M. Cole
  • The Rivonia trial : domination, resistance and transformation / Cathi Albertyn
  • "The road to freedom passes through gaol" : the treason trial and the Rivonia trial as political trials / Mia Swart
  • "I am the first accused" : seven reflections (and a postscript) on Derrida's Mandela / Jaco Barnard-Naudé
  • "Black man in the white man's court" : performative genealogies in the courtroom / Awol Allo
  • Reading choreographies of black resistance : courtroom performance as/and critique / Joel M Modiri
  • What is revealed by the absence of a reply? : courtesy, pedagogy, and the spectre of unanswered letters in Mandela's trial / Alison Phipps
  • Lawscapes : the Rivonia trial and Pretoria / Isolde de Villiers
  • Literary autonomy on trial : the 1974 Cape Trial of André Brink's Kennis van die Aand / Ted Laros
  • "The unkindest cut of all" : coloniality, performance and gender in the courtroom and beyond / Chloé S. Georas
  • Spectacular justice : aesthetics and power in the Gandhi murder trial / Kanika Sharma.