Sol Plaatje's Native life in South Africa : past and present /

First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa's most talented early twentieth-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje's pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the di...

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Main Authors: Remmington, Janet (Editor), Willan, Brian (Editor), Peterson, Bhekizizwe (Editor), Ndebele, Njabulo S. (Author), Head, Bessie, 1937-1986 (Author), Plaatje, Violet N. (Author), Molebaloa, James M (Author), Mokae, Sabata-mpho (Author), Limb, Peter (Author), Grundlingh, A. M., 1948- (Author), Mkhize, Khwezi (Author), Odendaal, André (Author), Sounders, Christopher (Author), Hughes, Heather (Author), Breckenridge, Keith (Author), Dlamini, Jacob, 1973- (Author), O'Toole, Sean, 1968- (Author)
Other Authors: Maake, N. P. (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sol T Plaatje and the 'power of all' / Njabulo S Ndebele
  • Introduction
  • Native Life in South Africa
  • then and now / Janet Remmington, Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson
  • Editions of Native Life in South Africa: 1916 to the present
  • Looking back: Foreword to Ravan Press edition of Native Life in South Africa, 1982 / Bessie Head
  • Poetic tributes: What is in a name? In memory of Sol T Plaatje / Violet N Plaatje
  • Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T Plaatje / James M Molebaloa
  • In memory of the late Sol T Plaatje / James M Molebaloa (translated by Nhlanhla Maake)
  • Lefatshe, nkometse / Sabata-mpho Mokae
  • Earth, swallow me / Sabata-mpho Mokae
  • Native Life in South Africa: Writing, publication, reception / Brian Willan
  • Modernist at large: The aesthetics of Native Life in South Africa / Bhekizizwe Peterson
  • The print world of the press and Native Life in South Africa / Peter Limb
  • Going places: Native Life in South Africa and the politics of mobility / Janet Remmington
  • Native Life in South Africa and the world at war / Albert Grundlingh
  • African intellectual history, black cosmopolitanism and Native Life in South Africa / Khwezi Mkhize
  • 'Native Lives' behind Native Life: Intellectual and political influences on the ANC and democratic South Africa / Andre Odendaal
  • Whose past? Native Life in South Africa and historical writing / Christopher Sounders
  • Women and society in Native Life in South Africa: Roles and ruptures / Heather Hughes
  • African progressivism, land and law: Re-reading Native Life in South Africa / Keith Breckenridge
  • Land and belonging: On the tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje / Jacob Dlamini
  • Revisiting the landscapes of Native Life / Sean O'Toole
  • A contemporary reimagining: The road to Dikhudung / Sabata-mpho Mokae.