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Rhetorics of Resistance
The period of apartheid was a perilous time in South Africa’s history. This book examines the tactics of resistance developed by those working for the Weekly Mail and New Nation, two opposition newspapers published in South Africa in the mid- and late 1980s. The government, in an attempt to crack down on the massive political resistance sweeping the country, had imposed martial law and imposed even greater restrictions on the press. Bryan Trabold examines the writing, legal, and political strategies developed by those working for these newspapers to challenge the censorship restrictions as much as possible—without getting banned. Despite the many steps taken by the government to silence them, including detaining the editor of New Nation for two years and temporarily closing both newspapers, the Weekly Mail and New Nation not only continued to publish but actually increased their circulations and obtained strong domestic and international support. New Nation ceased publication in 1994 after South Africa made the transition to democracy, but the Weekly Mail, now the Mail & Guardian, continues to publish and remains one of South Africa’s most respected newspapers.
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Walking the Cliff’s Edge: The New Nation’s Rhetoric of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa
This article examines the rhetoric of resistance used by South African anti-apartheid journalists to expose the links between the apartheid government and death squads.By utilizing allusions, repetition, and a concept I refer to as “subversive enthymemes,” these journalists managed to reveal publicly information about death squad activity in a context of overwhelming constraints almost a full decade before these facts were confirmed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Walking the Cliff's Edge: The New Nation's Rhetoric of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa Excerpt
This article examines the rhetoric of resistance used by South African antiapartheid journalists to expose the links between the apartheid government and death squads. By utilizing allusions, repetition, and a concept I refer to as \"subversive enthymemes,\" these journalists managed to reveal publicly information about death squad activity in a context of overwhelming constraints almost a full decade before these facts were confirmed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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\Hiding Our Snickers\: \Weekly Mail\ Journalists' Indirect Resistance in Apartheid South Africa
In the mid- to late 1980s, the challenges facing the editors and journalists working for the South African antiapartheid newspaper, the \"Weekly Mail,\" were formidable. In addition to the more than one hundred censorship laws already in place, the apartheid government had declared a series of states of emergency in a final and desperate attempt to maintain power. To prevent those in the South African media from reporting on the massive violence that the security forces were using to try to crush the liberation movement, the government enacted a series of emergency regulations. This article examines the tactics of indirection used by the \"Weekly Mail\" to convey essential information about the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The success of the newspaper was predicated precisely on the notion of \"collective agency\": journalists who wrote articles venturing into the gray areas of the censorship restrictions, attorneys who assisted them by developing creative legal justifications, and, finally, editors who had sufficient courage to publish these risky articles. (Contains 9 notes.)
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Literacy, Economy, and Power
Following on the groundbreaking contributions of Deborah Brandt’s Literacy in American Lives —a literacy ethnography exploring how ordinary Americans have been affected by changes in literacy, public education, and structures of power— Literacy, Economy, and Power expands Brandt’s vision, exploring the relevance of her theoretical framework as it relates to literacy practices in a variety of current and historical contexts, as well as in literacy’s expanding and global future. Bringing together scholars from rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies, the book offers thirteen engrossing essays that extend and challenge Brandt’s commentary on the dynamics between literacy and power.
The essays cover many topics, including the editor of the first Native American newspaper, the role of a native Hawaiian in bringing literacy to his home islands, the influence of convents and academies on nineteenth-century literacy, and the future of globalized digital literacies. Contributors include Julie Nelson Christoph, Ellen Cushman, Kim Donehower, Anne Ruggles Gere, Eli Goldblatt, Harvey J. Graff, Gail E. Hawisher, Bruce Horner, David A. Jolliffe, Rhea Estelle Lathan, Min-Zhan Lu, Robyn Lyons-Robinson, Carol Mattingly, Beverly J. Moss, Paul Prior, Cynthia L. Selfe, Michael W. Smith, and Morris Young. Literacy, Economy, and Power also features an introduction exploring the scholarly impact of Brandt’s work, written by editors John Duffy, Julie Nelson Christoph, Eli Goldblatt, Nelson Graff, Rebecca Nowacek, and Bryan Trabold. An invaluable tool for literacy studies at the graduate or professional level, Literacy, Economy, and Power provides readers with a wide-ranging view of the work being done in literacy studies today and points to ways researchers might approach the study of literacy in the future.
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