Read e-book online Managing Vulnerability: South Africa's Struggle for a PDF

By Richard C. Marback

ISBN-10: 1611170990

ISBN-13: 9781611170993

In handling Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the strain surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa via a rhetorical lens. Marback experiences the guts of South Africa’s wish for reconciliation and contends that this aim should be completed basically throughout the construction of a language of vulnerability within which former enemies develop into open to the impression of one another, to the restrictions in their respective conditions, and to the clients of a shared destiny. via a chain of informative case reports, Marback illustrates how the cultivation of openness and the administration of vulnerability take form throughout the move of artifacts, symbols, and texts that supply empowering expression to virtues of connectedness over the enticements of person autonomy.
Marback discusses the development and effect of the narrative excursions of Robben Island, the silencing of Robert Sobukwe, the debates over a proposed Freedom Monument, a short gesture of ubuntu from Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela to Eugene de Kock, and the transformation of the identify personality within the movie version of the 1980 novel Tsotsi. eventually, Marback contends, discovering a way to control vulnerability is either the instant luck of and the continued problem to South African democracy and is indicative of the character of rhetoric in democracies regularly and in modern civic life.

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