Sol Plaatje's Native life in South Africa : past and present / edited by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson ; foreword by Njabulo S. Ndebele
Plaatje, Sol. T (Solomon Tshekisho) 1876-1932 Search this
Plaatje, Sol. T (Solomon Tshekisho) 1876-1932 Native life in South Africa Search this
Physical description:
xlix, 263 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South Africa
Date:
2016
20th century
1909-1948
Notes:
Reviewed by Stephen Volz in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 59 (3) 2018, pages 519-520 (DT1.J858 AFA).
AFA copy 39088019012160 Gift from Janet Stanley.
Contents:
Sol T Plaatje and the 'power of all' / Njabulo S Ndebele -- Introduction -- Native Life in South Africa - then and now / Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- 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 / Bessie Head -- Poetic tributes: What is in a name? In memory of Sol T Plaatje / Violet N Plaatje -- Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T Plaatje / James M Molebaloa -- In memory of the late Sol T Plaatje / James M Molebaloa (translated by Nhlanhla Maake) -- Lefatshe, nkometse / Sabata-mpho Mokae -- Earth, swallow me / Sabata-mpho Mokae -- Native Life in South Africa: Writing, publication, reception / Brian Willan -- Modernist at large: The aesthetics of Native Life in South Africa / Bhekizizwe Peterson -- The print world of the press and Native Life in South Africa / Peter Limb -- Going places: Native Life in South Africa and the politics of mobility / Janet Remmington -- Native Life in South Africa and the world at war / Albert Grundlingh -- African intellectual history, black cosmopolitanism and Native Life in South Africa / Khwezi Mkhize -- 'Native Lives' behind Native Life: Intellectual and political influences on the ANC and democratic South Africa / Andre Odendaal -- Whose past? Native Life in South Africa and historical writing / Christopher Sounders -- Women and society in Native Life in South Africa: Roles and ruptures / Heather Hughes -- African progressivism, land and law: Re-reading Native Life in South Africa / Keith Breckenridge -- Land and belonging: On the tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje / Jacob Dlamini -- Revisiting the landscapes of Native Life / Sean O'Toole -- A contemporary reimagining: The road to Dikhudung / Sabata-mpho Mokae