"Modernism, Marginality and Apartheid
Author: Noëleen Murray
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 11
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Author: Noëleen Murray
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 11
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hilton Judin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-08
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1000367061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to wider discourses on international postwar modernism in architecture. Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents buried in archives and untranslated documents. Many of the documents, drawings and photographs in the book are unpublished and include classified material and photographs from the National Nuclear Research Centre, negatives of 1960s from Pretoria News and documents and pamphlets from Afrikaner Broederbond archives. State architecture became the most iconic public manifestation of an evolving expression of white cultural identity as a new generation of architects in Pretoria took up the challenge of finding form to their prospects and beliefs. It was an opportunistic faith in Afrikaners who urgently needed to entrench their vulnerable and contested position on the African continent. The shift from provincial town to apartheid capital was swift and relentless. Little was left to stand in the way of the ambitions and aim of the state as people were uprooted and forcibly relocated, structures torn down and block upon block of administration towers and slabs erected across Pretoria. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of architectural history as well as those with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and social anthropology.
Author: Noor Nieftagodien
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Attwell
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0821417118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.
Author: LaNitra M. Berger
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 135018750X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation's most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime. Using paintings, archival research, and new interviews, this book explores how Stern became South Africa's most prolific painter of Black, Jewish, and Colored (mixed-race) life while maintaining controversial positions on race. Through her art, Stern played a crucial role in both the development of modernism in South Africa and in defining modernism as a global movement. Spanning the Boer War to Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa and into the contemporary #RhodesMustFall movement, Irma Stern's work documents important twentieth-century cultural and political moments. More than fifty years after her death, Stern's legacy challenges assumptions about race, gender roles, and religious identity and how they are represented in art history.
Author: Shafqat Mushtaq
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781076302502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction to the Book'JM Coetzee`s Disgrace and Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa' is a short, comprehensive, and critical study of 'Disgrace', a novel by J. M. Coetzee, which won him Booker Prize. The subject of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, as explored by Coetzee in his novel, Disgrace, undoubtedly demands a separate study of its own. Nevertheless, due to the dearth of such material, graduate and undergraduate students find it hard to lay hands on study material, which comprehensively and in a critical manner touches upon the theme of the double-blind of racism in the novel of Coetzee. The author felt the urgency for a book that would deal with the subject of racism in Disgrace, and borne out of that effort is the well-researched, comprehensive and short-book called, 'JM Coetzee`s Disgrace and Racism in Post-Apartheid South Africa.' It is hoped that the book will be of great help to the students dealing with the novel of J. M. Coetzee, especially Disgrace.In the novel, it is David Lurie and her daughter who suffer at the hands of blacks. However, it is David Lurie again who ravishes her black student Melaine Isaacs. The novel abounds in such instances where the tormentor is tormented, the discriminator is discriminated, and violence is met with double-violence. Is it 'double-blind of racism' where blacks and whites lock horns and go head to head against each other, neither of the party a winner nor the loser, on the battlefield of racism? To find the answer to such questions, go through the book and you will get it.About the AuthorShafqat Mushtaq holds masters in English Literature from the University of Kashmir. He is the author of Blossoms from Elsewhere, Defy Odds and Be Unstoppable, Modernism in TS Eliot`s The Wasteland, and is published frequently in leading English dailies of Kashmir.
Author: John Peffer
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0816650012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack South African artists have typically had their work labeled "African art" or "township art," qualifiers that, when contrasted with simply "modernist art," have been used to marginalize their work both in South Africa and internationally. This is the The first book to fully explore cosmopolitan modern art by black South Africans under apartheid.
Author: Noëleen Murray
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 113599269X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGround-breaking multi-disciplinary new study of heritage practice in South Africa from native practitioners and scholars following the implementation of the National Heritage Resources Act.
Author: LaNitra M. Berger
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781501356834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth African artist Irma Stern is one of the nation?s most controversial modern figures. This book explores how Stern became South Africa?s most prolific painter of black, Jewish, and coloured (mixed-race) life while maintaining a neutral position on apartheid. Spanning from the Boer War, to Nazi Germany, to apartheid South Africa, Irma Stern?s life and work document important cultural and political moments modern history.
Author: Powell, Crystal
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Published: 2014-07-19
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9956792020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to be marginal? For residents of Cape Town's Langa Township, being considered marginal is subject to a host of social, physical and sometimes materialistic qualifications - not least of which is owning a mobile phone. Through various presentations of unique aspects of township life revealed through ethnographic snapshots, this book reveals the complex realities of marginalization experienced by some residents in Langa Township, located in Cape Town, South Africa. Mobile phones have been embraced and accommodated by both local South Africans and African immigrant residents living and working in Langa. Among other things, the technology has become a way of challenging (real and imagined) marginalities within the township in particular and South Africa in general. The book provides empirical data on the role of technology in regards to migration and notions of belonging; specifically the ways that technology has mitigated distance for residents, provided opportunities for development, facilitated the negotiation of various marginalities, and offered new ways of belonging for Langa residents.