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South Africa in the global imaginary

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