Research Catalog

Title

Mandela & Mbeki : the hero and the outsider / Lucky Mathebe.

Author

Mathebe, Lucky

Publication

Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2012.

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Details

Description

xviii, 333 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This book presents a comparative historical study of the narrative of Mandela and Mbeki and its grip on the South African imagination. A persistent theme among historical narratives of South African presidential politics was that Mandela is a 'hero', and that this style embodied an inclusive approach. His former deputy and successor, on the other side, was regarded a little harshly as a 'prince'. This book is concerned with the historical contexts in which these two narratives were centred, and takes the reader on a journey of what South African history could look like when Mandela, a character of legend, is cast in the role of an introverted ruler, and Mbeki as manifesting the sense of an outsider. Mbeki had a reputation for being 'an opinionated foreigner' in his country's present politics of avant-gardism and universalism.

Alternative Title

Mandela and Mbeki

Subject

• Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
• Mbeki, Thabo
• Since 1900
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-
• South Africa > History > 20th century
• South Africa > History > 21st century

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-328) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is 'greatness' exactly?: The peculiarities of Mandela and Mbeki -- What makes 'Republicans' Republicans?: 'We would still have chosen Frank and Lucille!' -- When Mandela and Mbeki descend wildly into 'novelistic' fiction: 'Imagined communities' and the stereotypes of Calpurnia and Julius Caesar -- 'Who first' and who is the 'martial captain' of the class?: Of the 'commoners' and 'bourgeois' people -- 'This thing of us is more than a comrades' club': The 'medieval' mentality of the ANC -- 'The Prince William inheritance' of Thabo Mbeki: 'Oh by the way, I have decided that you will be my Deputy President' -- 'Through this be madness, yet there is method in't': 'Hyphenation', 'dehyphenation', and the 'modern presidency' -- Stuck on the wrong and right of history: Why Mr. Mbeki lost his Presidency and why Mr. Mandela did not -- Reflections on the problems of paternal power and nostalgia: Why Mr Mbeki was clearly a 'patriarchalist' and why Mr Mandela was clearly a 'Republican'.

ISBN

• 9781868886609
• 1868886603

OCLC

• 779879854
• SCSB-11026510

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library