Sanders gives detailed analyses of widely divergent thinkers: Afrikaner nationalist poet N. P. van Wyk Louw, "Drum "writer Bloke Modisane, Xhosa novelist A. C. Jordan, Afrikaner dissident Breyten Breytenbach, and Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Drawing on theorists including Derrida, Sartre, and Fanon, and paying particular attention to the linguistic intricacy of the literary and political texts considered, Sanders shows how complicity emerges as a predicament for intellectuals across the ideological and social spectrum. Through discussions of the colonial intellectuals Olive Schreiner and Sol T. Plaatje and of post-apartheid feminist critiques of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, "Complicities" reveals how sexual difference joins with race to further complicate issues of collusion.
"Complicities" sheds new light on the history and literature of twentieth-century South Africa as it weighs into debates about the role of the intellectual in public life.
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Sanders gives detailed analyses of widely divergent thinkers: Afrikaner nationalist poet N. P. van Wyk Louw, "Drum "writer Bloke Modisane, Xhosa novelist A. C. Jordan, Afrikaner dissident Breyten Breytenbach, and Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. Drawing on theorists including Derrida, Sartre, and Fanon, and paying particular attention to the linguistic intricacy of the literary and political texts considered, Sanders shows how complicity emerges as a predicament for intellectuals across the ideological and social spectrum. Through discussions of the colonial intellectuals Olive Schreiner and Sol T. Plaatje and of post-apartheid feminist critiques of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, "Complicities" reveals how sexual difference joins with race to further complicate issues of collusion.
"Complicities" sheds new light on the history and literature of twentieth-century South Africa as it weighs into debates about the role of the intellectual in public life.
Imprint | Duke University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Philosophy and Postcoloniality |
Release date | December 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | December 2002 |
Authors | Mark Sanders |
Dimensions | 228 x 154 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Cloth over boards |
Pages | 288 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-3003-5 |
Barcode | 9780822330035 |
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LSN | 0-8223-3003-2 |