Wits University Press: 87 books
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa
Left thought under apartheid and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The re-emergence of debates on the decolonisation of knowledge has revived interest in the National Question, which began over a century ago and remains unresolved. Tensions that were suppressed and hidden in the past are now being openly debated. Despite this, the goal of one united nation living...
Entanglement
Literary And Cultural Reflections On Post-Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
This original book is a much needed and far reaching exploration of post-apartheid South African life worlds. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present....
Regarding Muslims
From Slavery To Post-Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
How do Muslims fit into South Africa?s well-known narrative of colonialism, apartheid and post-apartheid? South Africa is infamous for apartheid, but the country?s foundation was laid by 176 years of slavery from 1658 to 1834, which formed a crucible of war, genocide and systemic sexual violence that...
Shakespeare and the Coconuts
On Post-Apartheid South African Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness. Beginning with Solomon Plaatje, the author looks at the development of an elite...
Natures of Africa
Ecocriticism And Animal Studies In Contemporary Cultural Forms
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Environmental and animal studies are rapidly growing areas of interest across a number of disciplines. Natures of Africa is one of the first edited volumes which encompasses transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media....
The First Ethiopians
The image of Africa and Africans in the early Mediterranean world
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk...
Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa
Past and present
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
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New South African Review 6
The Crisis of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the...
Losing the Plot
Crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid South African writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid literature’s founding moment was...
South Africa and India
Shaping the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global...
Climate Change
Briefings From Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
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by Debbie Kaminer, Gillian Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Traumatic Stress in South Africa deals with the topic of traumatic stress from a number of angles. Traumatic stress, and posttraumatic stress more particularly, has gained international prominence as a condition or disorder that affects people across the globe in the wake of exposure to extreme life...
Accented Futures
Language activism and the ending of apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
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African Archaeology Without Frontiers
Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of ‘ages’ that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation. Papers are drawn from...