With faith in the works of words is the first book to look behind
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and examine
reconciliation's larger and fundamental role in the transition from
apartheid to nonracial democracy. In doing so, it finds that there
have been many beginnings of reconciliation in South Africa. Based
on documents that have received little public attention, including
controversial texts from the religious community and fascinating
transcripts from South Africa's constitutional negotiations, the
title reveals how reconciliation was used to energize the struggle
against apartheid and the ways in which it underwrote the
negotiated revolution, including the development of a constitution
whose very promise was pegged to the willingness of South Africans
to pursue the work of "reconciliation and reconstruction." Faith in
the works of words challenges many common assumptions about the
discourse and dynamics of reconciliation in South Africa. An
important history of reconciliation’s rhetorical power, this title
shows how reconciliation shaped the process of South African
nation-building long before the TRC took to the stage and captured
the world’s imagination.
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