Poetry and Protest

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Dennis Brutus , Brutus, Dennis , Karim, Aisha 저자(글)

Haymarket Books · 2006년 01월 01일

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A vital original collection of the interviews, poetry, and essays of the much-loved anti-apartheid leader.

작가정보

저자(글) Dennis Brutus

저자(글) Brutus, Dennis

저자(글) Karim, Aisha

Aisha Karim received her Ph.D. from Duke University's Literature program in 2004, specializing in postcolonial literature and theory. Her awards include a Mellon Fellowhsip for the Humaniities, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and research grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. She currently teaches at Saint Xavier University in Chicago and is co-editor, with Bruce Lawrence, of The Chains of Violence.

목차

• Acknowledgments	p. 8
  Introduction: Dennis Brutus's "ticking explosives" Aisha Karim and Lee Sustar	p. 11
  Early Years: Radicalization and Rebellion
  Editors' Introduction	p. 21
  Memoir: From Protest to Prison	p. 23
  Documents	p. 45
  Letter from Balthazaar Johannes Vorster, minister of justice
  Silent poets, strangled writers
  Negritude, literature, and nationalism: A word from South Africa
  In a Cape packing shed
  Sports: Threat to the security of the state
  Walking home to Mofolo
  "You've come to Hell Island": A political prisoner under apartheid
  Poems	p. 94
  From Exile to International Activist
  Editors' Introduction	p. 127
  Racism, Sports, and Resistance
  Memoir: Isolating Apartheid-South Africa and International Sports	p. 129
  Documents	p. 145
  "Certain countries are determined to protect South Africa"
  Open letter from the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee
  Poetry, Culture and Liberation
  Memoir: The Artist as Political Activist	p. 153
  Documents	p. 167
  Somehow tenderness survives
  Protest against apartheid: Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, Athol Fugard, Alfred Hutchinson, and Arthur Nortje
  African culture and liberation
  Cultural liberation and the African revolution
  Literature and commitment in South Africa
  Meeting of African writers
  English and the dynamics of South African creative writing
  Apartheid's Last Stand
  Memoir: Fighting Deportation from the United States	p. 220
  Documents	p. 222
  Letters
  Speech before the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid
  Notes on the South African liberation struggle
  Steve Biko: In memoriam
  Statement by Ad-Hoc Group to End Northwestern Investments in South Africa
  The escalation of resistance in South Africa
  Poems	p. 247
  From National Liberation to Global Justice
  Editors' Introduction	p. 283
  Memoir: Apartheid, Neoliberalism, Resistance	p. 285
  Documents	p. 294
  South Africa: Transition to freedom?
  Martin Luther King Day: Globalize the struggle for justice
  Africa 2000 in the new global context: A commentary
  Why I protested at the World Bank
  It's time for new confrontations
  Africa's progressive movements
  South Africa supports global apartheid
  World Conference Against Racism: South Africa between a rock and a hard place
  Reflections on Durban
  World Summit on Sustainable Development
  Global agendas are set by the usual suspects
  Africa's struggles today
  Statement on the Palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
  Africa: Can Blair and Brown deliver?
  Imperialism, sub-imperialism, and popular resistance in South Africa
  Poems	p. 363
  Document Sources	p. 394
  Poetry Sources	p. 399
  Further Reading	p. 402
  Glossary of Acronyms	p. 405
  Index of Poems	p. 406
  Index	p. 410
  Biographies	p. 415
  Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

기본정보

ISBN	9781931859226 ( 1931859221 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 01월 01일
쪽수	280쪽
크기	142 * 215 * 21 mm / 472 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어