Research Catalog

Title

South Africa in the global imaginary / edited by Leon de Kock, Louise Bethlehem & Sonja Laden.

Publication

Pretoria : University of South Africa Press ; Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• De Kock, Leon.
• Bethlehem, Louise.
• Laden, Sonja.

Description

vii, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Imagined South Africa

Uniform Title

Poetics today. 2001 (Special issue)

Alternative Title

Global imaginary

Subjects

• Group identity in art
• Authors, South African
• South Africa > Social relations
• Group identity in literature
• Group identity > South Africa
• South Africa > Social life and customs
• South Africa > Cultural policy
• South Africa > Politics and government
• National characteristics, African
• South Africa > Race relations

Note

• "The volume ... derives from a special issue of the journal Poetics today carrying the same title ..."--Pref.
• "Centre for African Renaissance Studies"--P. [4] of cover.
• "Academic Publishers Brill"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

South Africa in the global imaginary : an introduction / Leon de Kock -- "Civilised off the face of the earth" : museum display and the silencing of the /Xam / Pippa Skotnes -- A staggered orientalism : the Cape-to-Cairo imaginary / Peter Merrington -- "A primary need as strong as hunger" : The rhetoric of urgency in South African literary culture under apartheid / Louise Bethlehem -- Sitting for the civilisation test : the making(s) of a civil imaginary in colonial South Africa / Leon de Kock -- Black Hamlet : psychoanalysis on trial in South Africa / Jonathan Crewe -- The experimental turn in Black South African fiction / David Attwell -- Tradurre e tradire : the treason and translation of Breyten Breytenbach / Simon Lewis -- Narrative time and the space of the image : the truth of the lie in Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Dirk Klopper -- "Shoo--this book makes me to think!" : education, entertainment, and "life skills" comics in South Africa / Loren Kruger, Patricia Watson Shariff -- "Making the paper speak well," or, The pace of change in consumer magazines for Black South Africans / Sonja Laden.

Call Number

Sc E 06-440

ISBN

1868882608 (pbk.)

OCLC

56500495

Title

South Africa in the global imaginary / edited by Leon de Kock, Louise Bethlehem & Sonja Laden.

Imprint

Pretoria : University of South Africa Press ; Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, c2004.

Series

Imagined South Africa

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

De Kock, Leon.

Bethlehem, Louise.

Laden, Sonja.

Added Title

Poetics today. 2001 (Special issue)

Research Call Number

Sc E 06-440