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Author Marback, Richard

Title Managing vulnerability : South Africa's struggle for a democratic rhetoric / Richard C. Marback
Published Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 142 pages)
Series Studies in rhetoric/communication
Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Contents The promise of participation -- Rhetoric as vulnerability -- The dangerous rhetoric of Robert Sobukwe -- On the fragile memories of Robben Island -- Nelson Mandela's compromised gesture -- Desmond Tutu's even-handedness -- Tsotsi, District 9, and the visualization of vulnerable rhetorics -- The prospects of rhetoric as vulnerability
Summary In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart of South Africa's desire for reconciliation and contends that this goal could be achieved only through the creation of a language of vulnerability in which former enemies become open to the influence of each other, to the constraints of their respective circumstances, and to the prospects of a shared future. Through a series of informative case studies, Marback illustrates how the cultivation of openness and the management of vulnerability take shape through the circulation of artifacts, symbols, and texts that give empowering expression to virtues of connectedness over the temptations of individual autonomy. Marback discusses the construction and impact of the narrative tours of Robben Island, the silencing of Robert Sobukwe, the debates over a proposed Freedom Monument, a brief gesture of ubuntu from Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela to Eugene de Kock, and the transformation of the title character in the film adaptation of the 1980 novel Tsotsi. Ultimately, Marback contends, finding a means to manage vulnerability is both the immediate success of and the ongoing challenge to South African democracy and is indicative of the nature of rhetoric in democracies in general and in contemporary civic life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso -- Political and social views
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Mandela, Nelson, 1918- -- Political and social views
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso -- Political and social views
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 fast
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso fast
Subject Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- South Africa
Expression -- Political aspects -- South Africa
Democratization -- South Africa
Reconciliation
Post-apartheid era -- South Africa
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Democratization
Political and social views
Post-apartheid era
Reconciliation
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
South Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611171891
161117189X
9781283603515
1283603519