Rethinking South Africa's Past (eBook, ePUB)

A Safundi Reader on Comparative, Regional, and Transnational Connections, 1999-2024
Redaktion: Lee, Christopher J.; Offenburger, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents key historical scholarship published in Safundi from 1999 to 2024, tracing South Africa's past through approaches of comparative history, transnational history, and visual history, in addition to addressing the importance of topics like gender, labor and class dynamics, as well as regional historiographies.

The first section of the book focuses on comparative history as a founding method for Safundi, given the journal's origins in American and South African studies, while also recalibrating this approach through a variety of topics-cities, biographies and practices of violence-rather than nation-states writ large. Drawing upon innovative sources of evidence, the second section moves beyond the comparative method to address transnational histories as a new narrative technique for storytelling and analysis. Whether issues of education, immigration or visiting musicians to South Africa, these chapters demonstrate the importance of a post-national approach for understanding the past. The sections that follow fan out into other subject areas, including the uses of visual history, gender roles, class cultures and environmental history, all of which illuminate connections between South African history and other parts of the world.

This book will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, activists and policymakers, as well as those readers who are generally interested in understanding South Africa's complex history over the past several centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040332474
• Artikelnr.: 73306909

Autorenporträt

Christopher J. Lee has published eight books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of Safundi. Andrew Offenburger is Associate Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 ( 2019), and is co-editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond. He is the Founding Editor of Safundi.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Cape Town and New Orleans: Some Comparisons (2000) 2.
Pariahs in the Land of Their Birth: Sol Plaatje and Frederick Douglass in
the Search for Identity (2001) 3. The Instrument of Terror: Some Thoughts
on Comparative Historiography,White Rural Unofficial Violence, and
Segregation in South Africa and the American South (2003) 4. Reflections on
the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Publication of White Supremacy (2006)
5. Citizenship Over Race? African Americans in U.S.-South African
Diplomacy, 1890-1925 (2004) 6. Immigration: The Forgotten Factor in Cape
Colonial Frontier Expansion, 1658 to 1817 (2005) 7. Toward a "Modernizing"
Hybridity: McAdoo's Jubilee Singers, McAdoo's Minstrels, and Racial Uplift
Politics in South Africa, 1890-1898 (2014) 8. "The most patient of animals,
next to the ass": Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American
Leadership, 1930 (2017) 9. Loathing and Love: Postcard Representations of
Indentured Chinese Laborers in South Africa's Reconstruction, 1904-10
(2008) 10. Photography and the Future in Jansje Wissema's Images of
District Six (2014) 11. On Photographs at War: Images of the South African
6th Armored Division in Italy 1944-1945 (2014) 12. "Like a Family": Global
Models, Familial Bonds, and the Making of an American School for Zulu Girls
(2010) 13. The Voice of (Which?) Africa: Miriam Makeba in America (2012)
14. Forlorn daughters? The role of social motherhood in transnational
African Methodist Episcopal missionary women networks, 1900-1940s (2018)
15. "What is it that We Call the Nation": Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala's
definition, diagnosis, and prognosis of the nation in a segregated South
Africa (2018) 16. Crossing the Color Lines, Crossing the Continents:
Comparing the Racial Politics of the IWW in South Africa and the United
States, 1905-1925 (2011) 17. "Yours for Socialism": Communist Cultural
Discourse in Early Apartheid South Africa (2013) 18. Servicing "intimate
publics": Johannesburg and Baltimore department stores in the 1960s (2020)
19. Latitudes and Longitudes: Comparative Perspectives on Cape
Environmental History (2004) 20. Reconstructing Zimbabwe's Past: The
Professional Historians Return (2007) 21. Abolition, Violence, and Rape:
Thoughts on the Post-Emancipation Experiences of the United States and the
Cape Colony (2010) 22. Youth and generation in South African history (2018)