South Africa in the global imaginary.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Pretoria : University of South Africa Press ; Leiden : Koninklijke Brill, c2004. |
| Description: | vii, 298 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Imagined South Africa |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5364873 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. South Africa in the global imaginary : an introduction / Leon de Kock
- 2. Civilised off the face of the earth' : museum display and the silencing of the/Xam / Pippa Skotnes
- 3. A staggered orientalism : the Cape-to-Cairo imaginary / Peter Merrington
- 4. 'A primary need as strong as hunger' : the rhetoric of urgency in South African literary culture under apartheid / Louise Bethlehem
- 5. Sitting for the civilisation test : the making(s) of a civil imaginary in colonial South Africa / Leon de Kock
- 6. Black Hamlet : psychoanalysis on trial in South Africa / Jonathan Crewe
- 7. The experimental turn in black South African fiction / David Attwell
- 8. Tradurre e Tradire : the treason and translation of Breyten Breytenbach / Simon Lewis
- 9. 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
- 10. 'Shoo - this book makes me to think!' : education, entertainment and 'life skills' comics in South Africa / Loren Kruger and Patricia Watson Shariff
- 11. 'Making the paper speak well,' or, the pace of change in consumer magazines for black South Africans / Sonja Laden.