Visions of Humanity
Visions of Humanity

Author: Sönke Kunkel

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2023-09-15

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1805390856

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This book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.

Boesman and Lena
Boesman and Lena

Author: Athol Fugard

Publisher: Samuel French , Incorporated

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 9780573606205

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Two Black scavengers emerge from the underbrush loaded with their total possessions: the makings of a shack and a battery of pots and pans, but nothing to cook in them.

"Master Harold" -- and the Boys

Author: Athol Fugard

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 9780573640391

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A white South African teenager's relationships with his parents and, more particularly, with two of their Black servants--Willie and Sam--have a painful, tragic outcome

The Blood Knot
The Blood Knot

Author: Athol Fugard

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780573640032

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Blood Knot is a parable of two brothers who share a one-room shack near Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Zachariah is dark-skinned and Morris, light-skinned. They share the same mother but find their differences lead them to a common bond as brothers and men. Saving to buy a farm where they may retire Morris is the "slave", cooking and cleaning while Zach earns money for them both. When Morrie joins a lonely hearts club on his brother's behalf, they find themselves awaiting the visit of a White woman who will never arrive.

Statements
Statements

Author: Athol Fugard

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1559366958

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Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.

Blood Knot, and Other Plays
Blood Knot, and Other Plays

Author: Athol Fugard

Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781559360203

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The brothers of Blood Knot-- one dark-skinned, one light-- betray their dreams of a better future with the impossible wish of passing for white. In Hello and Goodbye, a poor white brother and sister churn their once-promising past to comprehend their bleak present. Boesman and Lena, a black husband and wife, tramp homelessly through a severe and unforgiving landscape, discovering strength and recovering devotion through an encounter with a mysterious old African.

Tsotsi
Tsotsi

Author: Athol Fugard

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780802142689

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In the Johannesburg township of Soweto, a young black gangster in South Africa, who leads a group of violent criminals, slowly discovers the meaning of compassion, dignity, and his own humanity.