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Title:
The courtroom as a space of resistance : reflections on the legacy of the Rivonia trial / edited by Awol Allo.
Publisher:
Ashgate Publishing Limited,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
ix, 348 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Rivonia Trial, Pretoria, South Africa, 1964--Social aspects.
Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--Social aspects--South Africa.
Mandela, Nelson,--1918-2013--Influence.
Apartheid--South Africa.
South Africa--Social conditions--1961-1994.
Other Authors:
Allo, Awol Kassim, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015003075
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : 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" : Mandela's performative genealogies / 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.
Series:
Edinburgh / Glasgow law and society series
ISBN:
1472444604
9781472444608
OCLC:
(OCoLC)900332364
LCCN:
2015000870
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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