[PDF] The Politics Of Official Discourse In Twentieth Century South Africa eBook

Author : Adam Ashforth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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This study uses a close reading of a series of major commission reports into the "Native Question" to examine the formation and reproduction of state power in South Africa. Analyzing the framework governing authoritative ways of speaking of, for, and to Blacks (once called "Natives"), Ashforth demonstrates how officially-approved forms of knowledge of "Native Life" substitute for political representation by Africans and continually serve to justify repression. He examines the terms used by those who, acting in the name of the state, strive to represent apartheid as necessary, practical, and just. Tracing the history of official discourse on the political status of African labor, the work illuminates the central contradictions in the politics of this repressive and exploitative regime.

Author : S. Mark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 131786896X

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"The standard of contribution is high . . . the reader gets a good sense of the cutting edge of historical research." – African Affairs

Author : Daryl Glaser
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2000-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1446264270

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`Darryl Glaser supplies an illuminating overview of the scholarship since 1970 on South Africa′s political history. His emphasis is on the debates between liberals, Marxists, and to a lesser extent "post-structuralists" about the origins and the course of South Africa′s racial order′ - Tom Lodge, University of Witwatersrand `A well-researched, well-argued, readable, interesting, informative and competent study′ - Capital and Class Providing a wide-ranging and critical introduction to contemporary South Africa, this book uses an interdisciplinary lens to introduce the student to the main debates, historical context, and issues that have characterized the study of South Africa over the last three decades. Key topics include: the role of colonialism, capitalism and modernity in the formation of the racial order; changes in the South African state; questions of class, race and ehtnicity; black resistance; and the transition to democracy. A number of underlying debates are critically evaluated. For exmple, the contribution of materialist and class-analytic approaches, the application of post-structuralism and theories of modernity, and the prospects for democratic liberalism and socialism in post-apartheid South Africa.

Author : Ann Levett
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781856494724

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With the eyes of the world watching South Africa, this book provides a unique window on the transition to democracy through an analysis of the practice of power in language.

Author : Frederick Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521566001

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This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.

Author : Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674038202

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Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu--founder of the powerful Zulu kingdom and leader of the army that nearly toppled British colonial rule in South Africa--has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a South African theme park, even the subject of a major TV film. Terrific Majesty explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image, examining the ways it has changed over time--from colonial legend, through Africanist idealization, to modern cultural icon. This study suggests that "tradition" cannot be freely invented, either by European observers who recorded it or by subsequent African ideologues. There are particular historical limits and constraints that operate on the activities of invention and imagination and give the various images of Shaka their power. These insights are illustrated with subtlety and authority in a series of highly original analyses. Terrific Majesty is an exceptional work whose special contribution lies in the methodological lessons it delivers; above all its sophisticated rehabilitation of colonial sources for the precolonial period, through the demonstration that colonial texts were critically shaped by indigenous African discourse. With its sensitivity to recent critical studies, the book will also have a wider resonance in the fields of history, anthropology, cultural studies, and postcolonial literature.

Author : D. Curry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1137023104

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In this single square mile hemmed in by White areas, residents engaged in what is arguably the most multi-faceted, inventive, and versatile strategy of resistance during the 1970s. Apartheid on a Black Isle brings to the fore the definitive but underappreciated role that Alexandra played in advancing human rights. Using their manufactured space, Alexandrans revolutionized the South African freedom struggle by fertilizing the underground movement, by joining in solidarity with Soweto during the student uprising and by finding unique ways to grieve. This book explores and introduces ordinary Alexandrans whose narratives challenged preconceived notions of resistance, identity, gender and space.

Author : Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 110883180X

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White working-class experiences of South Africa's transition provide a reinterpretation of how class colours race in the era of neoliberalism.

Author : Piniel Viriri Shava
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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A comprehensive attempt to analyze and synthesize a wide range of South African literature in the 20th century. Shava (English, U. of Lesotho) grapples with the conflict between literary values and political goals. Printed in the UK on acidic paper (though the endpapers are acid-free). Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521558143

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A collection of original essays on citizenship and identity.