David Johnson

Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa

Literature Between Critique and Utopia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781474430227
• ISBN-10: 1474430228
• Artikelnr.: 60002728

Autorenporträt

David Johnson is Professor of Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The Open University. He is the author of Shakespeare and South Africa (1996), Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation (2012) and Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa: Literature between Critique and Utopia (2019); and the co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2008); The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (2015); and Labour Struggles in Southern Africa (2023). He is the General Editor of the Edinburgh University Press series Key Texts in Anti-Colonial Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Lineages of hope and despair
2. The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) and the language of
freedom
3. Soviet freedom in South Africa
4. Anti-Stalinist dreams of freedom
5. Pan-Africanism: Freedom for Africa
Conclusion
References
Index