Performing South Africa's Truth Commission
Subtitle: stages of transition
By: Catherine M. Cole.
Series: African expressive cultures
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253353900; 9780253221452
Subjects: 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; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spectacles of legality: performance, transitional justice, and the law; title: Justice in transition : political trials, 1956-1964; title: Witnessing and interpreting testimony : live, present, public, and speaking in many tongues; title: Eyes and ears of the nation : television and the implicated witness; title: Dragons in the living room : truth and reconciliation in repertoire, 2006; title: Conclusion; title: Afterword : what "truth" meant to the TRC.