- Description
- xx, 200 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "While recollecting his educational experiences in apartheid South Africa, the author grapples with the oppressive intent of the governing regime alongside its unintended benefits for his intellectual and individual development"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Gratitude: In Three Steps -- Concepts 1: Thinking/Denke -- Gratitude -- Perversity -- The Perversity of Gratitude: In Three Iterations -- Against Commonsense -- Chapter I: A Name: Livingstone High School. Richard Owen Dudley: 1924-2009 -- Interlude I: "Education for Barbarism." -- Concepts 2: Transgression -- There is No Such Thing as a Constitutive Outside -- Chapter II: Morgan MacArthur: English Teacher Nonpareil -- Interlude II: Post-apartheid Education, Unconcealed -- Concepts 3: Thinking a Debt -- The Diaspora-in-Place -- The Unconscious of Gratitude -- The Dialectic, In Black and White -- Interlude III: In-Gratitude -- Concepts 4: Withdrawal -- Chapter III: Stanley Gordon Moise Ridge: Thespian from Natal -- Concepts 5: The Dialectic -- Memory -- Apartheid -- Responsibility. Irresponsibility -- Chapter IV: Richard Moore Rive: Tiananmen Square Day.
- ISBN
- 9781439924969
- 1439924961
- 9781439924976
- 143992497X
- 9781439924983 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023025392
- OCLC
- YBP 2023025392
- Author
Farred, Grant, author.
- Title
The perversity of gratitude : an apartheid education / Grant Farred.
- Publisher
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024.
- Copyright Date
©2024
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Farred, Grant. Perversity of gratitude Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2023 9781439924983 (DLC) 2023025393