Performing South Africa's Truth Commission : stages of transition /

Performing South Africa's Truth Commission : stages of transition /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cole, Catherine M.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
Description:	xxvii, 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	African expressive cultures African expressive cultures.
Subject:	South Africa. -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission. South Africa. -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Television broadcasting of news -- Social aspects -- South Africa. Discourse analysis -- South Africa. Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- History. Apartheid -- South Africa. Post-apartheid era -- South Africa. Apartheid. Discourse analysis. Politics and government. Post-apartheid era. Television broadcasting of news -- Social aspects. South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- South Africa. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7916822

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ISBN:	9780253353900 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253353904 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780253221452 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0253221455 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-216) and index.

Table of 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.