Mngxitama / Alexander / Gibson Biko Lives!

Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko
2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-61337-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Contemporary Black History

This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mngxitama, A.

Alexander, A.

Gibson, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: PHILOSOPHIC DIALOGUES * Biko: African Existentialist Philosophy / Mabogo P. More * Self-Consciousness as Force and Reason of Revolution in the Thought of Steve Biko / Lou Turner * A Phenomenology of Biko's Black Consciousness / Lewis R. Gordon * Biko and the Problematic of Presence / Frank Wilderson * May the Black God Stand Please!: Biko's Challenge to Religion / Tinyiko Sam Maluleke * PART 2: CONTESTED HISTORIES AND INTELLECTUAL TRAJECTORIES * Black Consciousness after Biko: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa, 1977-1987 / Nigel C. Gibson * An Illuminating Moment: Background to the Azanian Manifesto / Neville Alexander * Critical Intellectualism: The Role of Black Consciousness in Reconfiguring the Race-Class Problematic in South Africa / Nurina Ally and Shireen Ally * PART 3: CULTURAL CRITIQUE AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER * The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa/Azania / Mphutlane wa Bofelo * A Human Face: Biko's Conceptions of African Culture and Huamism / Andries Oliphant * Re-membering Biko For The Here And Now / Ahmed Veriava and Prishani Naidoo * Contradictory Locations: Blackwomen and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa / Pumla Dineo Gqola * The Black Consciousness Philosophy and the Woman's Question in South Africa: 1970-1980 / M. J. Oshadi Mangena * PART 4: MEMORY AND COUNTER-MEMORY * Interview with Strini Moodley / Naomi Klein, Ashwin Desai, and Avi Lewis * Interview with Lybon Mabasa / Andile Mngxitama and Amanda Alexander * Interview with Deborah Matshoba / Amanda Alexander and Andile Mngxitama

Über Autor(innen)

ANDILE MNGXITAMA is a PhD student at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.   AMANDA ALEXANDER is a PhD student in African history at Columbia University and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.  NIGEL C. GIBSON is director of the Honors Program at Emerson College, USA.