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Author : Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459525012
Author : Solomon T. Plaatje
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1106607436
Author : Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 1431430676
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : 9630538334
Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1868142523
A guide for interpreting the mfecane's role in history Was the mfecane a figment of historians' imagination as Julian Cobbing contends? How large a responsibility do Shaka and the Zulu people bear for the social turbulence in South-central and South-east Africa in the early decades of the 19th century? These are some of the issues explored in this collection, which is designed as a response to the radical critique of Dr. Cobbing and other scholars. The mfecane, suggests Cobbing, must be seen as a myth lying at the root of a set of interlinked assumptions and distortions that have seriously twisted our understanding of the main historical processes of late 18th- and early 19th-century Southern Africa. Contributors to this collection assess the implications of this critique for scholars from a range of disciplines, notably history, anthropology, archaeology, history of art and African languages. But the book is not only about the debate over Cobbing's work; it is also an indicator of the state of current scholarship in Southern Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries and, because it raises questions about the nature of sources and, indeed, about the nature of historical debate itself, it is also about historiography. This book should provide a useful guide for students starting out in this field, as well as a resource for established scholars seeking their way through the textual intricacies of varied editions and secondary texts that become the primary sources for historiographical debate.
Author : Sabata-mpho Mokae,Brian Willan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847012760
"Sol Plaatje's Mhudi is the first full-length novel in English to have been written by a black South African and is widely regarded as one of South Africa's most important literary works. Set in the 1830s, it tells the tale of Mhudi and Ra-Thaga, a romantic story set against a violent backdrop of war between Barolong and Matebele, complicated by the intrusions of Boer trekkers with whom the Barolong form an alliance. It is notable, among other things, for the way Plaatje uses the past to explore the roots of the oppression and injustice suffered by his people a century later, when the book was written"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Gareth Cornwell,Dirk Klopper,Craig Mackenzie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231503815
From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Author : Kenneth Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349036899
Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119058175
Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.
Author : Mark Sanders
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822329980
DIVA theoretically informed study of five major pro- and anti-apartheid intellectuals, showing the inevitability of complex and compromised positions, and the impossibility of pure ones./div
Author : Clifton Crais,Thomas V. McClendon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822377450
The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. Among the selections are folktales passed down through the centuries, statements by seventeenth-century Dutch colonists, the songs of mine workers, a widow's testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and a photo essay featuring the acclaimed work of Santu Mofokeng. Cartoons, songs, and fiction are juxtaposed with iconic documents, such as "The Freedom Charter" adopted in 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies and Nelson Mandela's "Statement from the Dock" in 1964. Cacophonous voices—those of slaves and indentured workers, African chiefs and kings, presidents and revolutionaries—invite readers into ongoing debates about South Africa's past and present and what exactly it means to be South African.
Author : African Print Cultures Network. Meeting
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472053179
Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent
Author : Jane Stafford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319387673
This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonised, indigenous, or ‘native’ subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, challenged, re-inscribed, confronted, or assimilated in the work of these authors, this study presents a novel examination of the nature of colonial literary production and indigenous authorship, as well as suggesting to the discipline of colonial and postcolonial studies a perhaps unsettling perspective with which to look at the larger patterns of Victorian cultural and literary formation.
Author : Dawne Y. Curry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030854041
This book, which examines the role of African women in the conversation on nationalism during South Africa’s era of segregation, excavates female voices and brings them to the provocative fore. From 1910 to 1948, African women contributed to political thought as editorialists, club organizers, poets, leaders, and activists who dared to challenge the country’s segregationist regime at a time when it was bent on consolidating White power. Daughters of Africa founder Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala and National Council of African Women President Mina Tembeka Soga feature in this work, which employs the artistic theory of “sampling” and decoloniality to highlight and showcase how these women and others among their cadre spoke truth to power through the fiery lines of their poetry, newspaper columns, thought-provoking speeches, organizational documents, personal testimonies, and musical compositions. It argues that these African women left behind a blueprint to grapple with and contest the political climate in which they lived under segregation, by highlighting the role and agency of African women intellectuals at Apartheid’s dawn.
Author : Guillaume Vallet
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788972659
Inequalities and the Progressive Era features contributors from all corners of the world, each exploring a different type of inequality during the ‘Progressive Era’ (1890s-1930s). Though this era is most associated with the United States, it corresponds to a historical period in which profound changes and progress are realized or expected all over the globe.
