From Apartheid to Democracy: Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

by Katherine Elizabeth Mack

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa's new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271064978
• ISBN13: 9780271064970
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 10.5"