Healing South African Wounds
Guérir les blessures de l’Afrique du Sud
On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘new’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or education, and they all seek to explore the sea change which totally reshaped South African identity in...
À la veille des élections démocratiques prévues en Afrique du Sud eu 2009, ce recueil explore les nombreuses stratégies mises en place par les Sud-Africains pour tenter de guérir les blessures de l’apartheid, obéissant ainsi à la fameuse injonction émise par Nelson Mandela en 1994, à l’aube d’une nouvelle ère pour son pays. S’ils évoquent des questions aussi diverses que la politique, la littérature, le cinéma, la politique sociale ou l’éducation, les articles ici rassemblés s’accordent tous à...
Éditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 10 octobre 2023
ISBN numérique : 978-2-36781-410-0
DOI : 10.4000/books.pulm.14668
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2009
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-84269-872-0
Nombre de pages : 476
Gilles Teulié et Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
IntroductionHealing the Wounds: Re/Membering and Reconstructing South Africa
Old Wounds, New Artistic Forms
Manfred Loimeier
A Literary Rebirth In South Africa An OverviewSandra Saayman
Is a South African Artist an ‘African’ Artist?An Analysis of the Questions Raised by (South) African Art in Ivan Vladislavic’s ‘Curioser’
Healing Women’s Wounds
Vicki Briault Manus
The Season of Whispers is Over: Now the Stories can be Safely ToldIs the Truth Enough to Heal?
Siphiwe Ignatius Dube
The TRC, Democratic Ethos & the New Culture Critique in South AfricaElaine Dubourdieu
Country of my Skull: a New Genre for Writing South Africa’s History?Afrikaners & History: Coping with the Past
Sheila Collingwood-Whittick
Autopsy of an Afrikaner Childhood: J. M. Coetzee’s Ethical and Psychological Stock-Taking in Post-Apartheid South AfricaElwyn Jenkins
Attitudes Towards Geographical Renaming in South AfricaWessel Visser
Afrikaner Responses to Post-Apartheid South Africa: Diaspora and the Re-Negotiation of a Cultural IdentityEducating for a Better Future?
Jeanette Schmid
Seeds of Transformation in South African Child WelfareCarol Serrurier-Zucker
Healing Through Education: a South African PerspectiveOn the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘new’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or education, and they all seek to explore the sea change which totally reshaped South African identity in the last fifteen years that followed the demise of apartheid. The notion of ‘healing the wounds’ is used both as a pretext and as a focal point to build up as complete a picture as possible of South Africa today. The specificity of the collection is to define healing as an ongoing process whose result seems to remain a rather elusive goal.
À la veille des élections démocratiques prévues en Afrique du Sud eu 2009, ce recueil explore les nombreuses stratégies mises en place par les Sud-Africains pour tenter de guérir les blessures de l’apartheid, obéissant ainsi à la fameuse injonction émise par Nelson Mandela en 1994, à l’aube d’une nouvelle ère pour son pays. S’ils évoquent des questions aussi diverses que la politique, la littérature, le cinéma, la politique sociale ou l’éducation, les articles ici rassemblés s’accordent tous à faire le bilan des changements impressionnants qui ont métamorphosé le paysage identitaire sud-africain au cours des quinze dernières années. Le prisme de la guérison des blessures du passé est à la fois le prétexte et le point focal de ce qui se veut un panorama aussi large que possible de l’Afrique du Sud aujourd’hui. La guérison y est envisagée comme un processus en cours, dont le résultat demeure, dans tous les domaines, pour le moins incertain.
Is Professor of British and Commonwealth Studies at the University of Aix-Marseille. He has written extensively on South African history and the Victorian period. He published a book on the Afrikaners and the South African War (Montpellier University Press, 2000). He was the editor of several volumes of essays: ‘Writing History in South Africa’, (University of Bayreuth Press, 2003), ‘Religious Writings and War’ (Montpellier University Press, 2006), ‘Victorian Representations of War’ (international journal Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens no 66 October 2007), and a forthcoming one on War Sermons.
Is Senior Lecturer at the University of Dijon (Université de Bourgogne). She read English at Aix-Marseille I, where she defended a doctoral thesis on ‘ (Af)filiation and Writing in Five Novels by André Brink: Looking on Darkness, Rumours of Rain, An Act of Terror, Imaginings of Sand and Devil’s Valley’ in 2003. Her main fields of interest are African literature (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria), contemporary British literature and translation.
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L’androgyne dans la littérature britannique contemporaine
Métamorphose d’une figure
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