Dreaming of freedom in South Africa : literature between critique and utopia / David Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, David, 1962 May 20- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartheid in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheidExplores the history of how the future in South Africa after the end of apartheid was imaginedProvides the first literary-cultural history of South African speculative fictionStudies the literary-political cultures of the five major traditions of South African anti-colonial/ anti-segregationist/ anti-apartheid thoughtFocusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the African National Congress, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Non-European Unity Movement and the Pan-Africanist Congress. More than an exercise in historical excavation, Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa raises challenging questions for the post-apartheid present.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Lineages of Hope and Despair

2 The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) and the Language of Freedom

3 Soviet Freedom in South Africa

4 Anti-Stalinist Dreams of Freedom

5 Pan-Africanism: Freedom for Africa

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-8115-9

1-4744-3023-6

OCLC:

1312726804