ISBN:
0816641080
,
0816641072
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxvii, 227 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Public worlds v. 11
Parallel Title:
Print version Race and Reconciliation : Essays from the New South Africa
DDC:
305.8/00968
Keywords:
South Africa
;
Reconciliation Political aspects
;
Reconciliation ; Political aspects ; South Africa
;
South Africa ; Politics and government ; 1994-
;
South Africa ; Race relations
;
South Africa ; Truth and Reconciliation Commission
;
Electronic books
;
South Africa Race relations
;
South Africa Politics and government 1994-
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Seeking the timeless through the timely, Daniel Herwitz brings the vast resources of the philosophical essay to bear on the new realities of post-apartheid South Africa-from racial identity to truth commissions, from architecture to film and television. A public intellectual's reflections on public life, Herwitz's essays question how the new South Africa has constructed its concepts of reconciliation and return
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Coat of Many Colors: Truth and Reconciliation; 2 Soweto's Taxi, America's Rib; 3 Afro-Medici: Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance; 4 Racial and Nonracial States and Estates; 5 The Genealogy of Modern South African Architecture; 6 Postmodernists of the South; 7 Ongoing Struggle at the End of History; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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