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1st ed |
| Descript |
vii, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Imagined South Africa
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| Note |
"The volume ... derives from a special issue of the journal Poetics today carrying the same title ... "--Pref |
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"Centre for African Renaissance Studies"--Back cover |
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"Academic Publishers Brill"--Back cover |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-277) and index |
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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 and Patricia Watson Shariff -- 'Making the paper speak well,' or, the pace of change in consumer magazines for Black South Africans / Sonja Laden |
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EAS: YW |
| Subject |
Authors, South African
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Group identity -- South Africa
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Group identity in literature
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Group identity in art
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National characteristics, African
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South Africa -- Cultural policy
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South Africa -- Race relations
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South Africa -- Social conditions
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South Africa -- Social life and customs
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South Africa -- Politics and government
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Bellettrie. gtt
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Cultuurgeschiedenis. gtt
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Zuid-Afrika. gtt
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| Alt Author |
De Kock, Leon
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Bethlehem, Louise
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Laden, Sonja
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| Alt Title |
Global imaginary |
| Vari Title |
Poetics today
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