Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa : Past and Present.
Native Life in South Africa by Sol Plaatje, one of South Africa's most talented early 20th century black leaders and journalists, was published in 1916. This multi-authored volume aims to shed new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and to reflect on how to read it...
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Johannesburg :
Witwatersrand University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Sol T Plaatje and the 'power of all'; Introduction: Native Life in South Africa
- then and now; Editions of Native Life in South Africa: 1916 to the present; Looking Back: Foreword to Ravan Press edition of Native Life in South Africa, 1982; Poetic Tributes; What is in a name? In memory of Sol T Plaatje; Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T Plaatje; In memory of the late Sol T Plaatje; Lefatshe, nkometse; Earth, swallow me; Chapter 1: Native Life in South Africa: Writing, publication, reception.
- Chapter 2: Modernist at large: The aesthetics of Native Life in South AfricaChapter 3: The print world of the press and Native Life in South Africa; Chapter 4: Going places: Native Life in South Africa and the politics of mobility; Chapter 5: Native Life in South Africa and the world at war; Chapter 6: African intellectual history, black cosmopolitanism and Native Life in South Africa; Chapter 7: 'Native Lives' behind Native Life: Intellectual and political influences on the ANC and democratic South Africa; Chapter 8: Whose past? Native Life in South Africa and historical writing.
- Chapter 9: Women and society in Native Life in South Africa: Roles and rupturesChapter 10: African progressivism, land and law: Re-reading Native Life in South Africa; Chapter 11: Land and belonging: On the tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje; Chapter 12: Revisiting the landscapes of Native Life; A Contemporary Reimagining: The Road to Dikhudung; Contributors; Plaatje Resources; List of Figures; Index.