Public Intellectuals in South Africa : Critical voices from the past /

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Edward Said described a public intellectual as someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public on matters of social and political significance. The essays in Public Intellectuals in South Africa apply this interpretive prism and activist principle to a South African context and t...

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Other Authors: Broodryk, Chris (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2021
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Public opinion.
Intellectuals.
Intellectual life.
Public opinion > South Africa.
Intellectuals > South Africa.
South Africa.
South Africa > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Prismatic Nature of Public Intellectualism / Chris Broodryk
  • Chapter 1 Recalibrating the Deep History of Intellectual Thought in the KwaZulu-Natal Region / Carolyn Hamilton
  • Chapter 2 Elijah Makiwane and Early Black South African Public Intellectualism / Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo
  • Chapter 3 Black Art Criticism in The Bantu World during the 1930s / Pfunzo Sidogi
  • Chapter 4 In Conversation with the Nation: Sowetan's Maverick Editor Aggrey Klaaste / Lesley Cowling
  • ?Chapter 5 William Pretorius and the Public Intellectualism of the Film Critic / Chris Broodryk
  • Chapter 6 Cultural Policy and the Arts: Mewa Ramgobin and Public Dialogue / Keyan G. Tomaselli
  • Chapter 7 'Kaalgat Critique': The Public Intellectualism of Koos Roets as Afrikaans Satirist / Anna-Marié Jansen van Vuuren
  • ?Chapter 8 The Public Intellectualism of Artivist Mandisi Sindo / Katlego Chale
  • Chapter 9 The Janus-Faced Public Intellectual: Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees at the Institute for Imbecile Children, 1895-1907 / Rory du Plessis

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