Healing South African Wounds
On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela's famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the 'new'...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Montpellier
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
2009
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| Series: | Horizons anglophones
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| Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela's famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the 'new' South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or education, and they all seek to explore the sea change which totally reshaped South African identity in the last fifteen years that followed the demise of apartheid. The notion of 'healing the wounds' is used both as a pretext and as a focal point to build up as complete a picture as possible of South Africa today. The specificity of the collection is to define healing as an ongoing process whose result seems to remain a rather elusive goal. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (476 p.) |
| ISBN: | books.pulm.14668 9782367814100 9782842698720 |
| Access: | Open Access |