Author: Brian Willan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813942094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Originally published in 2018 by Jacana Media, South Africa."
Sol Plaatje
Author: Brian Willan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813942094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Originally published in 2018 by Jacana Media, South Africa."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813942094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Originally published in 2018 by Jacana Media, South Africa."
The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje
Author: Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher: Johannesburg : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The introduction contains a biographical sketch of Sol T Plaatje.
Publisher: Johannesburg : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The introduction contains a biographical sketch of Sol T Plaatje.
Mafeking Diary
Author: Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary is a document of enduring importance and fascination. The product of a young black South African court interpreter, just turned 23 years old when he started writing, it opens an entirely new vista on the famous Siege of Mafeking. By shedding light on the part played by the African population of the town, Plaatje explodes the myth, maintained by belligerents, and long perpetuated by both historians and the popular imagination, this this was a white man's affair. One of the great epics of British imperial history, and perhaps the best remembered episode of the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902, is presented from a wholly novel perspective. "At the same time, the diary provides an intriguing insight into the character of a young man who was to play a key role in South African political and literary history during the first three decades of this century. It reveals much of the perceptions and motives that shaped his own attitudes and intellectual development and, indeed, those of an early generation of African leaders who sought to build a society which did not determine the place of its citizens by the colour of their skin. The diary therefore illuminates the origins of a struggle which continues to this day." -- John L. Comaroff (ed.) in his preface
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary is a document of enduring importance and fascination. The product of a young black South African court interpreter, just turned 23 years old when he started writing, it opens an entirely new vista on the famous Siege of Mafeking. By shedding light on the part played by the African population of the town, Plaatje explodes the myth, maintained by belligerents, and long perpetuated by both historians and the popular imagination, this this was a white man's affair. One of the great epics of British imperial history, and perhaps the best remembered episode of the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902, is presented from a wholly novel perspective. "At the same time, the diary provides an intriguing insight into the character of a young man who was to play a key role in South African political and literary history during the first three decades of this century. It reveals much of the perceptions and motives that shaped his own attitudes and intellectual development and, indeed, those of an early generation of African leaders who sought to build a society which did not determine the place of its citizens by the colour of their skin. The diary therefore illuminates the origins of a struggle which continues to this day." -- John L. Comaroff (ed.) in his preface
Native Life in South Africa
Author: Solomon T. Plaatje
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513217240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Native Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress, the work shows the influence of American activist and socialist historian W. E. B. Du Bois, whom Plaatje met and befriended. Using historical analysis and firsthand accounts from native South Africans, Plaatje exposes the cruelty of colonialism and analyzes the significance of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act. “Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.” Native Life in South Africa begins with the passage of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act, which made it illegal for Black South Africans to lease and purchase land outside of government designated reserves. The act, which was the first of many segregation laws passed by the Union Parliament, was devastating to millions of poor South African natives, most of whom relied on leasing land from white farmers to survive.Native Life in South Africa is a classic of South African literature reimagined for modern readers.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513217240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Native Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress, the work shows the influence of American activist and socialist historian W. E. B. Du Bois, whom Plaatje met and befriended. Using historical analysis and firsthand accounts from native South Africans, Plaatje exposes the cruelty of colonialism and analyzes the significance of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act. “Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.” Native Life in South Africa begins with the passage of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act, which made it illegal for Black South Africans to lease and purchase land outside of government designated reserves. The act, which was the first of many segregation laws passed by the Union Parliament, was devastating to millions of poor South African natives, most of whom relied on leasing land from white farmers to survive.Native Life in South Africa is a classic of South African literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Mafeking Diary of Sol T. Plaatje
Author: Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN: 9780852557808
Category : Mafikeng (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A contemporary account of the war from an African intellectual.
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN: 9780852557808
Category : Mafikeng (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A contemporary account of the war from an African intellectual.
Rereading the Imperial Romance
Author: Laura Chrisman
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198122999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"Chrisman's book demonstrates how South Africa played an important if now overlooked role in British imperial culture, and shows the impact of capitalism itself in the making of racial, gender and national identities. This book makes an original contribution to studies of Victorian literature of empire; South African literary history; African studies; black nationalism; and the literature of resistance."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198122999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
"Chrisman's book demonstrates how South Africa played an important if now overlooked role in British imperial culture, and shows the impact of capitalism itself in the making of racial, gender and national identities. This book makes an original contribution to studies of Victorian literature of empire; South African literary history; African studies; black nationalism; and the literature of resistance."--BOOK JACKET.
The Boer War diary of Sol T. Plaatje
Author: Solomon Tshekišô Plaatje
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mafikeng (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The introduction contains a biographical sketch of Sol T Plaatje.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mafikeng (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The introduction contains a biographical sketch of Sol T Plaatje.
Sol Plaatje
Author: Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A comprehensive selection of Sol Plaatje's writings, including letters to the press, newspaper articles and editorials, pamphlets, political speeches evidence to government commissions of enquiry, unpublished autobiographical writings, and personal letters.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A comprehensive selection of Sol Plaatje's writings, including letters to the press, newspaper articles and editorials, pamphlets, political speeches evidence to government commissions of enquiry, unpublished autobiographical writings, and personal letters.
Of Revelation and Revolution Volume 2
Author: Jean Comaroff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226114422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."—Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226114422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."—Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist
Mhudi
Author: Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Mhudi, the first full-length novel in English by a black South African, was written in the late 1910s. A romantic epic set in the first half of the nineteenth century, the main action is unleashed by King Mzilikazi's extermination campaign against the Barolong in 1832 at Kunana (nowadays Setlagole), and covers the resultant alliance of defeated peoples with Boer frontiersmen in a resistance movement leading to Battlehill (Vegkop, 1836) and the showdown at the Battle of Mosega (17 January 1839). Plaatje's eponymous heroine is an enduring symbol of the belief in a new day.
Publisher: Three Continents
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Mhudi, the first full-length novel in English by a black South African, was written in the late 1910s. A romantic epic set in the first half of the nineteenth century, the main action is unleashed by King Mzilikazi's extermination campaign against the Barolong in 1832 at Kunana (nowadays Setlagole), and covers the resultant alliance of defeated peoples with Boer frontiersmen in a resistance movement leading to Battlehill (Vegkop, 1836) and the showdown at the Battle of Mosega (17 January 1839). Plaatje's eponymous heroine is an enduring symbol of the belief in a new day.