The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance: Reflections on the Legacy of the Rivonia Trial

by Awol Allo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472444604
• ISBN13: 9781472444608
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"