http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f7-subject%3DAfrican%20History Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f7-subject=African History Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft5k4006q3/ft5k4006q3.xml J. M. Coetzee's first six novels constitute a form of postmodern metafiction that declines the cult of the merely relativist and artful. Coetzee has absorbed the lessons of modern linguistics—the textual turn in structuralism and poststructuralism—yet seriously addresses the ethical and political stresses of living in, and with, a particular historical locale, that of contemporary South Africa. This book is an account of that achievement. http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft5k4006q3/ft5k4006q3.xml Fri, 01 Jan 1993 12:00:00 GMT http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft958009mm/ft958009mm.xml Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad relies on stereotypes of violent tribalism and false colonial analogies.Adam and Moodley criticize the personality cult surrounding Nelson Mandela and the accolades accorded F. W. de Klerk. They reject the black-versus-white conflict and substitute sober analysis and strategic pragmatism for the moral outrage that typifies so much writing about South Africa. Believing that the best expression of solidarity emanates from sympathetic but candid criticism, they pose challenging questions for the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. They give in-depth coverage to political violence, the ANC-South African Communist Party alliance, Inkatha, and other co... http://xtf.cdlib.org:8080/xtf/view?docId=tei/ft958009mm/ft958009mm.xml Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT