Author: Zegeye, Abebe; Kriger, Robert; Alexander, Neville; Heugh, Kathleen; Shepperson, Arnols; Tomaselli, Keyan G.; Fleishman, Mark; Tomaselli, Ruth Teer-; See

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Media Type: Periodical (article)

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Abstract:

This special issue examines how the change in South Africa has brought both good and bad elements. The most critical burden of the present is a cultural and artistic ethos that transcends this prior linkage of culture with political hegemony and cultural exclusivity. Because both the resistance to inequities and the justification for inequities revolved around this critical belief in political hegemony and culturally exclusive groups, the new culture must be a culture of consensus, adaptation, process, and dynamism. In other words, the new cultural direction must reflect the complexity of human relationships.

CONTENTS
Introduction.
Language Policy of the New South Africa.
Culture, Media, and the Intellectual Climate: Apartheid and Beyond.
Unspeaking the Centre: Emergent Trends in South African Theatre in 1990's.
Nation-Building, Social Identity and Television in a Changing Media Landscape. Literary Studies in a Post-Apartheid South Africa.
Five Afrikaner Texts and the Rehabilitation of Whiteness.
Rural Art and Rural Resistance: The Rise of a Wall Decorating Tradition in Rural Southern Africa.
Affirming Heroes in the Struggle Against Colonial Rule.
The Autobiography of a Movement: Trade Unions in KwaZulu-Natal 1970s-1990s. The Burden of the Present.
The South African International Cultural Communication: A View from the Outside.
Contributors.

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Categories: International