Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Spectacles of Legality: Performance, Transitional Justice, and the Law
2. Justice in Transition: Political Trials, 19561964
3. Witnessing and Interpreting Testimony: Live, Present, Public, and Speaking in Many Tongues
4. Eyes and Ears of the Nation: Television and the Implicated Witness
5. Dragons in the Living Room: Truth and Reconciliation in Repertoire, 2006
Conclusion
Afterword: What "Truth" Meant to the TRC

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Performance as public enactment of justice and human rights

About the Author

Catherine M. Cole is Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (IUP, 2001) and editor (with Takyiwaa Manuh and Stephan F. Miescher) of Africa After Gender? (IUP, 2006).

Reviews

"An exceptionally cogent and substantial project by a leading scholar in theater and performance studies." Joseph Roach, Yale University "Offers a powerful lens into the performance of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission." Diana Taylor, New York University