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Public intellectuals in South Africa : critical voices from the past /

The essays in this volume utilise the idea of public intellectualism as an interpretive prism and activist principle within a historical South African context. They offer fascinating insights into the thought and work of a number of public intellectuals across a range of disciplines - from journalis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Broodryk, Chris (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Halftitle
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION The Prismatic Nature of Public Intellectualism
  • CHAPTER 1 Recalibrating the Deep History of Intellectual Thought in the KwaZulu-Natal Region
  • CHAPTER 2 Elijah Makiwane and Early Black South African Public Intellectualism
  • CHAPTER 3 Black Art Criticism in The Bantu World during the 1930s
  • CHAPTER 4 In Conversation with the Nation: Sowetan's Maverick Editor Aggrey Klaaste
  • CHAPTER 5 William Pretorius and the Public Intellectualism of the Film Critic
  • CHAPTER 6 Cultural Policy and the Arts: Mewa Ramgobin and Public Dialogue
  • CHAPTER 7 'Kaalgat Critique': The Public Intellectualism of Koos Roets as Afrikaans Satirist
  • CHAPTER 8 The Public Intellectualism of Artivist Mandisi Sindo
  • CHAPTER 9 The Janus-Faced Public Intellectual: Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees at the Institute for Imbecile Children, 1895-1907
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX