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Rediscovery of the Ordinary

Author : Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovery of the Ordinary written by Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Njabulo S. Ndebele's essays on South African literature and culture initially appeared in various publications in the 1980s. They encompass a period of trauma, defiance, and change - the decade of the collapse of apartheid and the challenge of reconstructing a future. In 1991, the essays were collected under the current title of Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture. Here, this collection is reprinted without revision, together with an interview provoked by Albie Sachs' paper Preparing Ourselves for Freedom. That it is possible to republish the essays without revision so many years after their first appearance is a tribute to Ndebele's prescience. The issues that he raises and the questions that he poses remain key to a people who, after apartheid, have started to rediscover the complex ordinariness of living in a civil society.

South African Literature and Culture

Author : Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719040528
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book South African Literature and Culture written by Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as a prophet of the post-apartheid condition, Njabulo Ndebele is a prize-winning author, poet and critic and one of the leading lights in South Africa's literary world. These essays, beginning in 1984, were written over the storm years of the democratic struggle and are reprinted here with a new introduction by Graham Pechey.

Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 1

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401207844
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 1 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... Themes covered include publishing in Africa, charisma in African drama, the rediscovery of apartheid-era South African literature, Truth and Reconciliation commissions, South African cinema, children’s theatre in England and Eritrea, and the Third Chimurenga in literary anthologies. Surveyed are texts from Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Writers discussed (or interviewed: Angela Makholwa) include Ayi Kwei Armah, Seydou Badian, J.M. Coetzee, Chielo Zona Eze, Ruth First, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bessie Head, Ian Holding, Kavevangua Kahengua, Njabulo Ndebele, Lara Foot Newton, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o/Micere Githae Mugo, Sol Plaatje, Ken Saro–Wiwa, Mongane Wally Serote, Wole Soyinka, and Ed¬gar Wallace, together with essays on the artist Sokari Douglas Camp and the filmmaker Rayda Jacobs. Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and an entertaining travelogue/memoir.

The Rediscovery of the Old Testament

Author : H H Rowley
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718897064
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Rediscovery of the Old Testament written by H H Rowley and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of a classic exposition of the understanding of the Old Testament. Rowley brings the Old Testament back to the forefront of Scholarship and finds rich meaning in much of what has previously been buried. Increasingly men are turning their thoughts to the deeper message of the Old Testament, and finding richer meaning in the light of all work that has been done. The Old Testament need not to be buried beneath the weight of scholarship, but may rather stand on the foundation of scholarship, sustained by it and firmly upheld before men - from the Preface.

Still Beating the Drum

Author : Lindy Stiebel
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042018070
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Still Beating the Drum written by Lindy Stiebel and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers English literature and post/colonial literature in English, in 20th century South Africa.

Imagining the International

Author : Nesam McMillan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612821
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the International written by Nesam McMillan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of international crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of international crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.

Re-Routing the Postcolonial

Author : Janet Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135190216
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Re-Routing the Postcolonial written by Janet Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture. Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial studies, including sections on: new directions and growth areas from performance and autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial spaces new theoretical directions such as globalization, fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’. Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.

Race, Nation, Translation

Author : Zoë Wicomb
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300226179
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Race, Nation, Translation written by Zoë Wicomb and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa's leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume. This compilation features essays on the works of such prominent South African writers as Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Njabulo Ndebele, and J. M. Coetzee, as well as on a wide range of cultural and political topics, including gender politics, sexuality, race, identity, nationalism, and visual art. Also presented here are a reflection on Nelson Mandela and a revealing interview with Wicomb. In these essays, written between 1990 and 2013, Wicomb offers insights into her nation's history, politics, and people. In a world in which nationalist rhetoric is on the rise and right-wing populist movements are the declared enemies of diversity and pluralism, her essays speak powerfully to a host of current international issues.

Children and Youth in African History

Author : SE Duff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031110978
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Children and Youth in African History written by SE Duff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.

African Intellectuals and Decolonization

Author : Nicholas M. Creary
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0896804860
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book African Intellectuals and Decolonization written by Nicholas M. Creary and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder. African and non-African scholars alike still struggle to establish the idea of African humanity, in all its diversity, and to move Africa beyond its historical role as the foil to the West. As this book shows, Africa’s decolonization is an ongoing process across a range of fronts, and intellectuals—both African and non-African—have significant roles to play in that process. The essays collected here examine issues such as representation and retrospection; the roles of intellectuals in the public sphere; and the fundamental question of how to decolonize African knowledges. African Intellectuals and Decolonization outlines ways in which intellectual practice can serve to de-link Africa from its global representation as a debased, subordinated, deviant, and inferior entity. Contributors Lesley Cowling, University of the Witwatersrand Nicholas M. Creary, University at Albany Marlene De La Cruz, Ohio University Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town George Hartley, Ohio University Janet Hess, Sonoma State University T. Spreelin McDonald, Ohio University Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi, University of Ibadan Steve Odero Ouma, University of Nairobi Oyeronke Oyewumi, State University of New York at Stony Brook Tsenay Serequeberhan, Morgan State University

Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox

Author : Renée Schatteman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040020216
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sindiwe Magona and the Power of Paradox written by Renée Schatteman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the work of Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most prolific and groundbreaking writers, widely recognized for highlighting the everyday experiences of women and the domestic side of apartheid. A pioneer among black African women writers, she is equally respected as storyteller, advocate for children’s education, activist for HIV/AIDS awareness, and champion of indigenous languages. In this book, Renée Schatteman contends that Magona’s most important contribution comes through her refusal to choose sides in the contentious debates that have polarized public discourse following apartheid. By straddling two (or more) sides of a controversy and challenging any who do harm to others (and to the nation), regardless of their position, she blurs distinctions that are assumed to be absolute, opens new avenues of understanding, and inspires alternative visions for the future. By occupying the space of paradox, she undermines the closed epistemological structures inherited from apartheid and champions the need for interdependence, truth-telling, and dialogue. Covering her creative production over three decades (which includes novels, autobiographies and biographies, short story collections, children’s books, and literature about HIV/AIDS), this book is an essential read for Magona enthusiasts as well as for researchers of African literature and postcolonial South Africa.

Commemorating and Forgetting

Author : Martin J. Murray
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452939578
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Commemorating and Forgetting written by Martin J. Murray and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The new South Africa’s confrontation of this dilemma is Martin J. Murray’s subject in Commemorating and Forgetting. More broadly, this book explores how collective memory works—how framing events, persons, and places worthy of recognition and honor entails a selective appropriation of the past, not a mastery of history. How is the historical past made to appear in the present? In addressing these questions, Murray reveals how collective memory is stored and disseminated in architecture, statuary, monuments and memorials, literature, and art—“landscapes of remembrance” that selectively recall and even fabricate history in the service of nation-building. He examines such vehicles of memory in postapartheid South Africa and parses the stories they tell—stories by turn sanitized, distorted, embellished, and compressed. In this analysis, Commemorating and Forgetting marks a critical move toward recognizing how the legacies and impositions of white minority rule, far from being truly past, remain embedded in, intertwined with, and imprinted on the new nation’s here and now.

Written Under the Skin

Author : Carli Coetzee
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012213
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Written Under the Skin written by Carli Coetzee and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.

The Cry of Winnie Mandela

Author : Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele
Publisher : Ayebia Clarke Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Cry of Winnie Mandela written by Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele and published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of women at a specific period in the history of Southern Africa find their family life under the pressures of capitalist modernity and apartheid. These ordinary, intimate stories are anchored to the more powerful public stories of the Penelope of ancient Greek mythology (who waited 18 years while her husband Odyseeus was away), and Winnie Mandela (who waited for 27 years). The life of Winnie Mandela remains one of the great unfolding dramas of our times; a tale of triumphs and tragedies that is only just beginning to be examined.

Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414460
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Forays into Contemporary South African Theatre written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of Apartheid, South African theatre was characterized by a remarkable process of constant aesthetic reinvention. This multivocal volume documents some of the various ways in which the “rainbow” nation has forged these innovative stage idioms.

Reading Migration and Culture

Author : Dan Ojwang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137262966
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Reading Migration and Culture written by Dan Ojwang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the uniquely positioned culture of East African Asians to reflect upon the most vexing issues in postcolonial literary studies today. By examining the local histories and discourses that underpin East African Asian literature, it opens up and reflects upon issues of alienation, modernity, migration, diaspora, memory and nationalism.

Writing South Africa

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521597685
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Writing South Africa written by Derek Attridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.