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  • Radio Soundings

    South Africa and the Black Modern

    by Liz Gunner ...
    Series Book 59 - The International African Library
    Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Bloke of All Ages

    Persepectives on Bloke Modisane

    by Bloke Modisane, Shane Graham, Colette Guldimann, Liz Gunner, Vusumuzi R Kumalo, Benjamin N Lawrance, Bafana Radebe, Mark Sanders, Molebogeng Sebesho ...
    Bloke of All Ages is an expansive reflection that offers refreshing new insights into the works of one of South Africa’s most important literary, intellectual and artistic figures, William Bloke Modisane. Born in Sophiatown, Modisane was a remarkable author, playwright and actor, and a leading member of the DRUM generation in the 1950s. The contributors trace Modisane’s intellectual and cultural ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Text, Theory, Space

    Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia

    Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner, Sarah Nuttall ...
    Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space.Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines which include literature, history, urban and cultural geography, politics and anthropology, the ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Musho!

    Zulu Popular Praises

    Edited by Mafika Gwala, Liz Gunner ...
    In Musho! Zulu Popular Praises Elizabeth Gunner, an authority on Zulu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Mafika Gwala, a South African teacher and poet, have translated, transcribed, and annotated a wide variety of Zulu izibongo poetry. In so doing, they have revealed the incredible breadth of this traditional genre, which is usually equated ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Quarterly Essay 69 Moment of Truth

    History and Australia’s Future

    by Mark McKenna ...
    Series Book 69 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past.In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move ... Read more

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    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

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    Australia's British Inheritance

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