An outline of the new African movement in South Africa /

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Author / Creator:Masilela, Ntongela.
Imprint:Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2013.
Description:xxviii, 404 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Intellectual history of Southern Africa
Intellectual history of southern Africa.
Subject:Social change -- South Africa.
South African literature -- Social aspects.
Modernism (Literature) -- South Africa.
Postcolonialism -- South Africa.
Intellectual life.
Modernism (Literature)
Postcolonialism.
Social change.
South African literature -- Social aspects.
South Africa -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
South Africa.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9322242
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ISBN:9781592218752 (hard cover)
159221875X (hard cover)
9781592218769 (pbk.)
1592218768 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Parallel to the rise of the African National Congress and the emergence of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Walter Sisulu as leading nationalists and freedom fighters was a powerful South African movement of indigenous intellectuals, writers, and critical thinkers. Masilela (emer., Pitzer College) brings them together in what he calls the "New African Movement." They were active and a creative force as early as the mid-18th century, reacting to and interacting with colonialism and colonial modes of thought. Had these formidable intellects not been marginalized first by the tidal forces of segregation, and then by the tsunami of apartheid, the many men (and occasional women) whom Masilela apotheosizes would have become household names and both leading modernizers and strong bridges to traditions and precolonial ontologies. In both senses, they were well ahead of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa in writing and publishing important fiction, poetry, political tracts, and vibrant journalism. A few were consciously involved with the founding of the African National Congress in 1912. Others became crusaders against segregation and, loudly and openly when it was still possible, against the onrush of apartheid after 1948. Masilela has done a great service by reviewing their many publications and other initiatives in one volume. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students/faculty. R. I. Rotberg Harvard University

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