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Biko lives! : contesting the legacies of Steve Biko / edited by Andile Mngxitama, Amanda Alexander, and Nigel C. Gibson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary Black history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biko, Steve, 1946-1977--Influence.
- Biko, Steve.
- Biko, Steve, 1946-1977.
- Black people--South Africa--Intellectual life.
- Black people.
- Black people--South Africa--Politics and government.
- Anti-apartheid movements.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- South Africa.
- Politics and government.
- Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History.
- Political prisoners--South Africa--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Summary:
- Biko Lives! is an intervention in post-apartheid South African politics as well as the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements, addressing not only the current commodification of Steve Biko but also the various appropriations of his legacy. It brings together the work of prominent international activists and intellectuals and includes philosophical reflections on Biko's thought, historical investigations of Black Consciousness in South Africa as well as Biko's global legacy, and analysis of the significance of his ideas to the present. By reintroducing Biko to a new generation in the context of a new period in South African politics, this much-needed volume points the way toward a deeper and more serious discussion of his ideas and legacies.
- Contents:
- Biko Lives / Andile Mngxitama, Amanda Alexander, Nigel C. Gibson 1
- Interview with Steve Biko / Gail M. Gerhart 21
- Part 1 Philosophic Dialogues
- 1 Biko: Africana Existentialist Philosopher / Mabogo P. More 45
- 2 Self-Consciousness as Force and Reason of Revolution in the Thought of Steve Biko / Lou Turner 69
- 3 A Phenomenology of Biko's Black Consciousness / Lewis R. Gordon 83
- 4 Biko and the Problematic of Presence / Frank B. Wilderson, III 95
- 5 May the Black God Stand Please!: Biko's Challenge to Religion / Tinyiko Sam Maluleke 115
- Part 2 Contested Histories and Intellectual Trajectories
- 6 Black Consciousness after Biko: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa, 1977-1987 / Nigel C. Gibson 129
- 7 An Illuminating Moment: Background to the Azanian Manifesto / Neville Alexander 157
- 8 Critical Intellectualism: The Role of Black Consciousness in Reconfiguring the Race-Class Problematic in South Africa / Nurina Ally, Shireen Ally 171
- Part 3 Cultural Critique and the Politics of Gender
- 9 The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Postapartheid South Africa/Azania / Mphutlane wa Bofelo 191
- 10 A Human Face: Biko's Conceptions of African Culture and Humanism / Andries Oliphant 213
- 11 Remembering Biko for the Here and Now / Ahmed Veriava, Prishani Naidoo 233
- 12 The Black Consciousness Philosophy and the Woman's Question in South Africa: 1970-1980 / M. J. Oshadi Mangena 253
- 13 Interview with Strini Moodley / Naomi Klein, Ashwin Desai, Avi Lewis 267
- 14 Interview with Deborah Matshoba / Amanda Alexander, Andile Mngxitama 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0230605192
- 9780230605190
- 0230606490
- 9780230606494
- OCLC:
- 183179478
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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