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978 1 92049 975 4 2012
230 PAGES
ZAR R385.00
Imagining the Cape Colony
History, literature, and the South African nation
D JOHNSON
Imagining the Cape Colony revisits a key phase of South African history – the period 1770–1830, when the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789 produced the most influential forms of the modern nation state. The book addresses current debates in postcolonial studies about settler nationalism, anti-colonial resistance and the imprint of 18th-century colonial histories on contemporary neo-colonial politics through the lens of writers of the time, such as François Levaillant and Lady Anne Barnard, and figures on the margins of colonial history, like settler rebels, slaves and early African nationalists.
SUITABLE FOR
• Academics and students of history and South African history in the colonial period
• Critics, theorists and students of postcolonial literary studies, the eighteenth century and Romantic period, and travel writing.
Rural Resistance in South Africa
The Mpondo revolts after fifty years
L NTSEBEZA & T KEPE (EDITORS)
Much has been written about anti-apartheid resistance by the marginalised people of South Africa, as well as its violent repression by security forces in urban areas (such as the Sharpeville massacre and the Soweto riots). But very little attention has been paid to resistance by rural people. The Mpondo Revolts, which began in the 1950s and reached a climax in 1960, rank among the most significant rural resistances in South Africa.
During this period Mpondo villagers emphatically rejected the introduction of Bantu Authorities and unpopular rural land-use planning that meant loss of land, and many lost their lives as a result. This volume presents a fresh understanding of the uprising as well as its meaning and significance then and now, particularly relating to land, rural governance, party politics and the agency of the marginalised.
SUITABLE FOR
• Historians
• Students and academics in African history, human rights, land rights
and political studies
• General readership.
978 1 91989 534 5 978 1 92051 654 3 2012
290 PAGES
ZAR R391.00 ZAR R365.00
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