[PDF] Reassessing Mandela eBook

Author : Colin Bundy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000261417

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Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination. Internationally, Mandela’s renown seems intact and invulnerable. In South Africa, however, his legacy and his place in the country’s history have become matters of contention and dispute, especially amongst younger black South Africans. The essays in this book analyse aspects of Mandela’s life in the context of South Africa’s national history, and make an important contribution to the historiography of the anti-apartheid political struggle. They reassess: the political context of Mandela’s youth; his changing political beliefs and connections with the Left; his role in the African National Congress and the turn to armed struggle; his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and their political relationship. By providing new context, they explore Mandela as an actor in broader social processes such as the rise of the ANC and the making of South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution. The detailed essays are linked in a substantial introduction by Colin Bundy and current debates are addressed in a concluding essay by Elleke Boehmer. This book provides a scholarly counterweight both to uncritical celebration of Mandela and also to a simplistic attribution of post-apartheid shortcomings to the person of Mandela. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies.

Author : Tom Lodge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0191578762

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Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now enjoys? This new and highly revealing biography examines these questions in detail for the first time. Drawing on a range of original sources, it presents a host of fresh insights about the shaping of Mandela's personality and public persona, from his childhood days and early activism, through his long years of imprisonment, to his presidency of the new South Africa. Throughout, Lodge emphasizes the crucial interplay between Mandela's public career and his personal or private world, showing how his heroic status was a product both of his leading position within the anti-apartheid movement and his own deliberate efforts to supply a form of quasi-messianic leadership for that movement. And as Lodge shows, Mandela's huge international appeal is a compelling and unusual cocktail. Of the sacred and the secular. Of traditional African values and global media savvy. And of human vulnerablilty, interwoven with the grand narrrative of liberation.

Author : Tamara Hollingsworth
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1433383306

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Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first South African President of Africa in this nonfiction biography. Featuring colorful images, informational text, timelines, a glossary of terms, and an index, readers are sure to be inspired by Mandela's amazing life.

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0192893440

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring A pathbreaking analysis of the relationship between Mandela the myth, and Mandela the historical figure, looking at the way images, stories, and politics have been combined to create the iconic image of Mandela that we know today. Boehmer explores the long trajectory of Mandela's life, explaining first the historical and political context of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and then the post-apartheid period of difficult reconciliation, including the shifts and changes in Mandela's reputation since the millennium. This innovative postcolonial reflection takes on board the more critical revisionist literature on Mandela that has emerged since 2015, looking at responses to his death in 2014, and the 2018 commemorations of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The first edition set a trend in scholarship on Mandela by reading his character and achievements through the lens of his influences, interests, and leading ideas. The second edition extends this focus with a far-reaching critical look at meanings of reconciliation and Mandela's ethic of reciprocity. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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"My political beliefs have been explained in my autobiography, The Struggle Is My Life".--Nelson Mandela.

Author : Julia Wall
Publisher : Learning Media Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Readers
ISBN : 9780790309989

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Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years in prison because of his beliefs. This is the story of his struggle to achieve a better life for his people.

Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158648866X

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Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there. Martin Meredith's vivid portrayal of this towering leader was originally acclaimed as "an exemplary work of biography: instructive, illuminating, as well as felicitously written" (Kirkus Reviews), providing "new insights on the man and his time" (Washington Post). Now Meredith has revisited and significantly updated his biography to incorporate a decade of additional perspective and hindsight on the man and his legacy and to examine how far his hopes for the new South Africa have been realized. Published as South Africa celebrates 100 years since its founding and hosts the 2010 World Cup, Nelson Mandela is the most thorough and up-to-date account available of the life of its most revered hero.

Author : Ann Kramer
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1445142244

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Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela offers a fascinating and complete look at one of the 20th century's great leaders and humanitarians. Beginning with his early life in a rural part of South Africa, the book traces the course of Mandela's life - his legal studies, helping to found the ANC, freedom fighting, trial for treason and harsh imprisonment. The story continues with Mandela's release from prison, the incredible story of the defeat of apartheid and his election as president, retirement, humanitarian activities and his death and funeral in 2013.

Author : Beatrice Gormley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481420593

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"From Nelson Mandela's childhood to his monumental impact on race relations and nonviolent activism, this ... biography shares the truth about the man behind the iconic smile: his struggles, his triumphs, and the sacrifices along the way"--