This volume returns to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela's masterful performance, when he stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. Cutting across a wide-range of critical theories and discourses, contributors reflect on the personal, spatial, temporal, performative and literary dimensions of that constitutive event. By redefining the spaces, institutions and discourses of law, contributors present a fresh perspective that re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the courtroom.…mehr
This volume returns to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela's masterful performance, when he stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. Cutting across a wide-range of critical theories and discourses, contributors reflect on the personal, spatial, temporal, performative and literary dimensions of that constitutive event. By redefining the spaces, institutions and discourses of law, contributors present a fresh perspective that re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the courtroom.
Awol Allo is Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
1 The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance: Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial - Awol Allo 2 In the Name of Mandela - Derek Hook 3 When Time Gives: Reflections on Two Rivonia Renegades - Johan van der Walt 4 Nelson Mandela and Civic Myths: A Law and Literature Approach to Rivonia - Peter Leman 5 Justice in Transition: South Africa Political Trials, 1956-1964 - Catherine M. Cole 6 The Rivonia Trial: Domination, Resistance and Transformation - Catherine Albertyn 7 'The Road to Freedom Passes Through Gaol': The Treason Trial and Rivonia Trial as Political Trials - Mia Swart 8 'I am the first accused': Seven Reflections (and a Postscript) on Derrida's Mandela - Jaco Barnard-Naudé 9 'Black man in the white man's court': Performative Genealogies in the Courtroom - Awol Allo 10 Reading Choreographies of Black Resistance: Courtroom Performance as/and Critique - Joel M. Modiri 11 What is Revealed by the Absence of a Reply? Courtesy, Pedagogy and the Spectre of Unanswered Letters in Mandela's Trial - Alison Phipps 12 Lawscapes: The Rivonia Trial and Pretoria - Isolde de Villiers 13 Literary Autonomy on Trial: The 1974 Cape Trial of André Brink's Kennis van die Aand - Ted Laros 14 "The Unkindest Cut of All": Coloniality, Performance and Gender in the Courtroom and Beyond - Chloé S. Georas 15 Spectacular Justice: Aesthetics and Power in the Gandhi Murder Trial - Kanika Sharma
1 The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance: Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial - Awol Allo 2 In the Name of Mandela - Derek Hook 3 When Time Gives: Reflections on Two Rivonia Renegades - Johan van der Walt 4 Nelson Mandela and Civic Myths: A Law and Literature Approach to Rivonia - Peter Leman 5 Justice in Transition: South Africa Political Trials, 1956-1964 - Catherine M. Cole 6 The Rivonia Trial: Domination, Resistance and Transformation - Catherine Albertyn 7 'The Road to Freedom Passes Through Gaol': The Treason Trial and Rivonia Trial as Political Trials - Mia Swart 8 'I am the first accused': Seven Reflections (and a Postscript) on Derrida's Mandela - Jaco Barnard-Naudé 9 'Black man in the white man's court': Performative Genealogies in the Courtroom - Awol Allo 10 Reading Choreographies of Black Resistance: Courtroom Performance as/and Critique - Joel M. Modiri 11 What is Revealed by the Absence of a Reply? Courtesy, Pedagogy and the Spectre of Unanswered Letters in Mandela's Trial - Alison Phipps 12 Lawscapes: The Rivonia Trial and Pretoria - Isolde de Villiers 13 Literary Autonomy on Trial: The 1974 Cape Trial of André Brink's Kennis van die Aand - Ted Laros 14 "The Unkindest Cut of All": Coloniality, Performance and Gender in the Courtroom and Beyond - Chloé S. Georas 15 Spectacular Justice: Aesthetics and Power in the Gandhi Murder Trial - Kanika Sharma
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