A Brief History of South Africa
Author : JOHN. BAILEY PAMPALLIS (MARYKE.)
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781928232957
Author : JOHN. BAILEY PAMPALLIS (MARYKE.)
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781928232957
Author : Leonard Monteath Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300065428
Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement
Author : Gail Nattrass
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1785903683
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa – a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours' affairs. On the other hand, post-Apartheid dreams of progress and reform have, in part, collapsed into a morass of corruption, unemployment and criminal violence. A Short History of South Africa is a brief, general account of the history of this most complicated and fascinating country – from the first evidence of hominid existence to the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that led to the establishment of modern South Africa, the horrors of Apartheid and the optimism following its collapse, as well as the prospects and challenges for the future. This readable and thorough account, illustrated with maps and photographs, is the culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history. Nattrass's passion for her subject shines through, whether she is elucidating the reader on early humans in the cradle of humankind, or describing the tumultuous twentieth-century processes that shaped the democracy that is South Africa today.
Author : Susan V. Gallagher
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
With the publication of Age of Iron--winner of Britain's richest fiction prize, the Sunday Express Book of the Year for 1990--J. M. Coetzee is now recognized as one of the foremost writers of our day. In this timely study of Coetzee's fiction, Susan Gallagher places his work in the context of South African history and politics. Her close historical readings of Coetzee's six major novels explore how he lays bare the "dense complicity between thought and language" in South Africa. Following a penetrating description of the unique difficulties facing writers under apartheid, Gallagher recounts how history, language, and authority have been used to marginalize the majority of South Africa's people. Her story reaches from the beginnings of Afrikaner nationalism to the recent past: the Sharpeville massacre, the jailing of Nelson Mandela, and the Soweto uprising. As a result of his rejection of liberal and socialist realism, Coetzee has been branded an escapist, but Gallagher ably defends him from this charge. Her cogent, convincingly argued examination of his novels demonstrates that Coetzee's fictional response is "apocalyptic in the most profound Biblical sense, obscurely pointing toward ineffable realities transcending discursive definition." Viewing Coetzee's fiction in this context, Gallagher describes a new kind of novel "that arises out of history, but also rivals history." This analysis reveals Coetzee's novels to be profound responses to their time and place as well as richly rewarding investigations of the storyteller's art.
Author : Rebecca Fasselt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000562409
This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.
Author : C. H. Feinstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521850919
This book examines five hundred years of South African economic history.
Author : Leonard Monteath Thompson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300087764
Presents a comprehensive history of the country, from its earliest human settlements, to events prior to European colonisation, to the Dutch occupation and the years of apartheid, to its success in becoming an independent nation.
Author : Dougie Oakes
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
A record of all races and history of South Africa, featuring notable personalities and pivotal events.
Author : Eve Fairbanks
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1776192737
'Lyrical, deep, chilling, and prescient, this is a book we will be talking about for years to come.' - Justice Malala, author and commentator. South Africans face a reckoning: mourn a miracle nation that never came into being, fight on to give it birth, or make something else out of 1994's ashes? In The Inheritors, award-winning writer Eve Fairbanks tells the stories of ordinary people facing this stupendous question. These are the kinds of lives rarely examined in such depth: political activist Dipuo, her born-free daughter Malaika, and Christo, one of the last Afrikaner men drafted to fight for the apartheid regime. All three have to remake their own lives while facing the questions: what do I owe to my forebears, and what does history owe to me? They tell of the unresolved rage, generational guilt, and enduring hope that many South Africans struggle to speak aloud to themselves in private, let alone share. Observing subtle truths about power and inheritance, Fairbanks explores questions that preoccupy so many South Africans today: how can one let go of one's past? How should historical debts be paid? And how can a person live an honourable life in a society that – for better or worse – they no longer recognise?
Author : Alliste Sparks
Publisher : Random House
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1448135001
Tomorrow is Another Country celebrates the miraculous social, moral and political transformation in South Africa signaled by the death of apartheid. For the first time, the true events which shaped history are revealed in this fascinating account. A drama hidden behind official world coverage, which stretches back to the four years before Nelson Mandela was released from jail in February 1990. Allister Sparks, South Africa's award-winning journalist, tells an extraordinary story of secret meetings between leading government parties, their political prisoners and the outlawed opposition - a dangerous, bloody political conflict which led to the historic election of 1994.