Title:
Fanonian practices in South Africa : from Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo
Author:
Gibson, Nigel C.
ISBN:
9780230117846
9781869141974
9781137414779
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan ; Scotsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
xxii, 312 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Amandla is still awethu : Fanonian practices in post-apartheid South Africa -- Biko's Fanonian practices -- The pitfalls of South Africa's liberation -- The new 'reality of the nation' : the rich and the poor -- Unfinished struggles for freedom : the birth of a new shack dwellers' movement -- Xenophobia or a new humanism? Fanon in the shacks -- In place of a conclusion.
Abstract:
A serious and sophisticated examination of post-apartheid South Africa through the lens of Frantz Fanon's revolutionary humanism. Gibson, director of the Honours Programme at Emerson College in the United States and a visiting research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, considers Fanon's work and Steve Biko's analysis of the dangers of liberalism as he looks into the politics of the growing shack dwellers movement in South Africa.
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