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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sanders, Mark, 1968- Complicities. Durham : Duke University Press, 2002 (OCoLC)606931521 |
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| Named Person: | N P van Wyk Louw; Bloke Modisane; Steve Biko; Breyten Breytenbach; N P van Wyk Louw; Bloke Modisane; Steve Biko; Breyten Breytenbach |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Sanders |
| ISBN: | 0822330032 9780822330035 0822329980 9780822329985 |
| OCLC Number: | 49584174 |
| Description: | xiii, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Two colonial precursors -- The intellectual and apartheid -- Apartheid and the vernacular -- Prison writing -- Black consciousness -- "Don't forget to tell us what happened to you yourself" : towards a conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Philosophy and postcoloniality. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Sanders. |
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"Philosophically informed and linguistically sophisticated, Complicities is an important contribution to the intellectual history of modern South Africa."--J.M. Coetzee "[Complicities] has been one of the most challenging and stimulating books I have read in the past year."--Yvette Hutchison, King Alfred's College, Winchester in the Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 66 2004 "[C]reative... Complicities raises critically important ethical questions that all intellectuals must face and that are especially relevant and poignant in our troubled times."--Jackie Vieceli, Perspectives on Political Science "[A]n accessible and very subtle reflection on the responsibility of the intellectual in the face of oppression... [A] stimulating and deeply rewarding read."--Paul Muldoon, Australian Journal of Politics and History "[T]he richness of informed, detailed analysis on offer here deserves the close attention of anyone trying to understand the history of protest, collusion or submission by some of South Africa's most significant thinkers."--Dennis Walder, Journal of Southern African Studies "This combination of European and African philosophy and literature challenges the role and place of the intellectual and artist in society. South Africans have long seen complicity as contamination and resisted any association either with the word or people to whom it has been applicable. This book offers an alternative perspective whereby we can look at these discourses differently, with less anxiety. It has been one of the most challenging and stimulating books I have read in the past year."--Yvette Hutchison, African Studies Bulletin "[A] deeply satisfying book. The range and depth of research is assimilated into a style of writing that is neither tedious nor pompous, and the author shows himself in full command of his sources."--Rustum Kozain, H-Net (H-SAfrica) Mentioned in The Boston Globe in a short item about a conference. Also reviewed in Research in African Literatures and Postcolonial Studies. Listed in The Black Scholar, boundary 2, Africa Today and Journal of History of Ideas. Read more...
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Related Subjects:(19)
- South African literature -- History and criticism.
- South Africa -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Louw, N. P. van Wyk -- (Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk), -- 1906-1970.
- Modisane, Bloke, -- -1986.
- Biko, Steve, -- 1946-1977.
- Breytenbach, Breyten.
- Apartheid -- South Africa.
- Apartheid in literature.
- Louw, N. P. van Wyk -- (Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk), -- 1906-1970. -- Et l'apartheid.
- Modisane, Bloke, -- m. 1986. -- Et l'apartheid.
- Biko, Steve, -- 1946-1977. -- Et l'apartheid.
- Breytenbach, Breyten -- Et l'apartheid.
- Littérature sud-africaine -- Histoire et critique.
- Apartheid -- Afrique du Sud.
- Apartheid dans la littérature.
- Afrique du Sud -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle.
- Apartheid.
- Intellectuelen.
- Intellektueller.
