Treason

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300162987
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Treason by : Hedi Kaddour

Download or read book Treason written by Hedi Kaddour and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work. The poetries of several languages and literary traditions are lively and constant presences in the work of Hédi Kaddour, a Parisian as well as a Germanist and an Arabist. A walker’s, a watcher’s, and a listener’s poems, his sonnet-shaped vignettes often include a line or two of dialogue that turns his observations and each poem itself into a kind of miniature theater piece. Favoring compact, classical models over long verse forms, Kaddour questions the structures of syntax and the limits of poetic form, combining elements of both international modernism and postmodernism with great sophistication. Capturing Kaddour’s full range of diction, as well as his speed, momentum, and tone, Marilyn Hacker’s translations brilliantly bring these poems alive.

A Sorcerer's Treason

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765343741
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (437 download)

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Book Synopsis A Sorcerer's Treason by : Sarah Zettel

Download or read book A Sorcerer's Treason written by Sarah Zettel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.

The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131703712X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance by : Awol Allo

Download or read book The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance written by Awol Allo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years before his death in 2013, Nelson Mandela stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria's Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. In what came to be regarded as "the trial that changed South Africa", Mandela summed up the spirit of the liberation struggle and the moral basis for the post-Apartheid society. In this blistering critique of Apartheid and its perversion of justice, Mandela transforms the law into a sword and shield. He invokes it while undermining it, uses it while subverting it, and claims it while defeating it. Wise and strategic, Mandela skilfully reimagines the courtroom as a site of visibility and hearing, opening up a political space within the legal. This volume returns to the Rivonia courtroom to engage with Mandela's masterful performance of resistance and the dramatic core of that transformative event. Cutting across a wide-range of critical theories and discourses, contributors reflect on the personal, spatial, temporal, performative, and literary dimensions of that constitutive event. By redefining the spaces, institutions and discourses of law, contributors present a fresh perspective that re-sets the margins of what can be thought and said in the courtroom.

Mandela

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814025
Total Pages : 1037 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Mandela by : Anthony Sampson

Download or read book Mandela written by Anthony Sampson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction. Now Anthony Sampson, who has known Mandela since 1951 and has been a close observer of South Africa's political life for the last fifty years, has produced the first authorized biography, the most informed and comprehensive portrait to date of a man whose dazzling image has been difficult to penetrate. With unprecedented access to Mandela's private papers (including his prison memoir, long thought to have been lost), meticulous research, and hundreds of interviews--from Mandela himself to prison warders on Robben Island, from Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo to Winnie Mandela and F. W. de Klerk, and many others intimately connected to Mandela's story--Sampson has composed an enlightening and necessary story of the man behind the myth.

Mandela

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Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 158648866X
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Mandela by : Martin Meredith

Download or read book Mandela written by Martin Meredith and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there. Martin Meredith's vivid portrayal of this towering leader was originally acclaimed as "an exemplary work of biography: instructive, illuminating, as well as felicitously written" (Kirkus Reviews), providing "new insights on the man and his time" (Washington Post). Now Meredith has revisited and significantly updated his biography to incorporate a decade of additional perspective and hindsight on the man and his legacy and to examine how far his hopes for the new South Africa have been realized. Published as South Africa celebrates 100 years since its founding and hosts the 2010 World Cup, Nelson Mandela is the most thorough and up-to-date account available of the life of its most revered hero.

In the Shadow of Sharpeville

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814766590
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (665 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Sharpeville by : Peter Parker

Download or read book In the Shadow of Sharpeville written by Peter Parker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the men who were sentenced to hang in South Africa following the death of a deputy-mayor in Sharpeville in 1984. The authors focus on the trial, sentencing, and subsequent international campaign that eventually led to their release after a stay of execution was ordered only 18 hours before the death sentence was to be carried out. Their exploration of the events also leads the authors into discussions of the way the criminal justice system in apartheid South Africa was biased against blacks. The source material for the book included countless interviews and letters written from Death Row. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Black Power in South Africa

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341473
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Power in South Africa by : Gail M. Gerhart

Download or read book Black Power in South Africa written by Gail M. Gerhart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, better than any I have seen, provides an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II. . . . from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC) of the late 1940s to the South African Student Organization (SASO) and the Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s."—Perspective "Clarifies some of the main issues that have divided the black leadership and rescues the work of some pioneering nationalist theorists. . . . It's an absorbing piece of history."—New York Times "Informative and well-researched. . . . She ably explores the nuances of the two main movements until 1960 and explains why blacks were so receptive to black consciousness in the late Sixties."—New York Review

South Africa in Africa

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719005794
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis South Africa in Africa by : Sam C. Nolutshungu

Download or read book South Africa in Africa written by Sam C. Nolutshungu and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women's Activism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415535751
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Activism by : Francisca de Haan

Download or read book Women's Activism written by Francisca de Haan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Activism brings together twelve innovative contributions from feminist historians from around the world. They look at how women have always found ways to challenge or fight inequalities and hierarchies as individuals, in international women's organizations, as political leaders, and in global forums such as the United Nations. This book addresses women's internationalism and struggle for their rights in the international arena; it deals with racism and colonialism in Australia, India and Europe; women's movements and political activism in South Africa, Eastern Bengal (Bangladesh), the United Kingdom, Japan and France.

Metaphors of Confinement

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192577603
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Metaphors of Confinement by : Monika Fludernik

Download or read book Metaphors of Confinement written by Monika Fludernik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included major shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly relevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.

Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673571
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Book Synopsis Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid by : Alan Wieder

Download or read book Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid written by Alan Wieder and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of the war to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle, as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle carried out by the famous Umkhonto we Sizwe. Only one of them, however, would survive to see the fall of the old regime and the founding of a new, democratic South Africa. This book, the first extended biography of Ruth First and Joe Slovo, is a remarkable account of one couple and the revolutionary moment in which they lived. Alan Wieder’s deeply researched work draws on the usual primary and secondary sources but also an extensive oral history that he has collected over many years. By weaving the documentary record together with personal interviews, Wieder portrays the complexities and contradictions of this extraordinary couple and their efforts to navigate a time of great tension, upheaval, and revolutionary hope.

African Opposition in South Africa from 1948-1969

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis African Opposition in South Africa from 1948-1969 by : Zola Sonkosi

Download or read book African Opposition in South Africa from 1948-1969 written by Zola Sonkosi and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Africa's Peacemakers

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178032944X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa's Peacemakers by : Adekaye Adebajo

Download or read book Africa's Peacemakers written by Adekaye Adebajo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose career was inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles promoted by fellow Nobel Peace laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Albert Luthuli; to influential figures in peacemaking such as Ralph Bunche, Anwar Sadat, Kofi Annan, and F.W. De Klerk; as well as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei, who have been variously involved in women's rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.

Neither War Nor Peace

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000535282
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Neither War Nor Peace by : Hugh Seton-Watson

Download or read book Neither War Nor Peace written by Hugh Seton-Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1960, is an analysis of the turbulent and revolutionary world politics of the 15 years following the Second World War. It examines the main themes of revolutionary forces, totalitarianism and imperialism, including, in detail, the social questions that lie behind them.

Rabble-Rouser for Peace

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743298667
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Book Synopsis Rabble-Rouser for Peace by : John Allen

Download or read book Rabble-Rouser for Peace written by John Allen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African journalist John Allen movingly captures Desmond Tutu’s life in a commanding story that sheds light on the struggles and triumphs leading up to Tutu’s Nobel Prize for his leadership in the resistance against apartheid in South Africa. To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice—a genuine regard for human rights—is the only real foundation for peace. So, he stirred up trouble: courageously engaging in heated face-to-face confrontations with South Africa's leaders; he stirred up trouble in the streets, leading peaceful demonstrations amid the barely controlled fury of police battalions; he stirred up trouble on the world stage, seeking international disinvestment in the apartheid economy. Tutu has led one of the great lives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and to read his story in full is to be reminded of the power of one inspired man to change history. In this authorized biography, written by John Allen, a distinguished journalist and longtime associate of Tutu, we are witnesses to courage, stirring oratory, and a demonstration of the power of faith to transform the seemingly intransigent. Through the author's personal experiences, total access to the Tutu family and their papers, and considerable research, including the use of new archival material, Allen tells the story of a barefoot schoolboy from a deprived black township who became an international symbol of the democratic spirit and of religious faith.

Performing South Africa's Truth Commission

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253353904
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Book Synopsis Performing South Africa's Truth Commission by : Catherine M. Cole

Download or read book Performing South Africa's Truth Commission written by Catherine M. Cole and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commission as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.

Alfred B. Xuma

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814731345
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Alfred B. Xuma by : Steven Gish

Download or read book Alfred B. Xuma written by Steven Gish and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough examination of Alfred B. Xuma's life and times, Gish's study not only broadens our understanding of African nationalism at a crucial period, but also sheds light on white liberalism, Pan Africanism, and the world of the educated African elite."--BOOK JACKET.