Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa

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Jacob Dlamini. Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD. Sol T Plaatje and the ‘power of all’

INTRODUCTION. Native Life in South Africa – then and now

Sol Plaatje (1876–1932) – formative years

The 1913 Natives' Land Act and campaigning abroad

Native Life in South Africa and its place in history

Native Life and the black intellectual tradition

Plaatje, the African intelligentsia and South Africa's cultural landscape

Past, present and future

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

POETIC TRIBUTES. What is in a name? In memory of Sol T Plaatje

Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T Plaatje

In memory of the late Sol T Plaatje

Lefatshe, nkometse

Earth, swallow me

CHAPTER 1. NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA WRITING, PUBLICATION, RECEPTION

The struggle to publish

Reception in the UK

Impact in South Africa

Native Life in North America

Later editions of Native Life

Conclusion

CHAPTER 2. MODERNIST AT LARGE: THE AESTHETICS OF NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Native Life and modernism

Paratexts and the thresholds

The epic and quotation

Haunting, memory and prophecy

Rhodes must fall

CHAPTER 3. THE PRINT WORLD OF THE PRESS AND NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA

The black press and black politics

The book

The periodical press response

Native Life and the press: A textual analysis

Legacy and conclusion

CHAPTER 4. GOING PLACES: NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE POLITICS OF MOBILITY

‘Natives’ in place and time

‘Peregrination’ and publication

A political travelogue and more

Conclusion: Knowing one's place, going places and other metaphors

CHAPTER 5. NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD AT WAR

Making the war work

Dealing with the Boer Rebellion

Missing: The Mendi saga

Wider issues

Conclusion

CHAPTER 6. AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, BLACK COSMOPOLITANISM AND NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Print culture and the circulation of ideas

Empire and the black political imagination

Imperial routes

An allegory of history

Conclusion

CHAPTER 7 ‘NATIVE LIVES’ BEHIND NATIVE LIFE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCES ON THE ANC AND DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA

African intellectuals and activists before 1912

Localities and nurseries of intellectualism and activism

Early constitutionalists and the African essence of the struggle for democracy

i) Constitutionalists and chiefs

ii) Constitutionalists and African pasts

iii) Constitutional politics and Ethiopianism

Imithungo: Ideas, influences and networks that persist

i: Africanism and nonracialism

ii: The constitution of a democratic South Africa in 1996 and its African roots

iii: Continuing influences of the founding generation after 1913

iv) Inter-generational political memories and family lineages

Conclusion One: Rupture and continuity in the ANC and the legacy of African constitutionalism

Conclusion Two: The struggle and the intellectual history of South Africa

CHAPTER 8. WHOSE PAST? NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND HISTORICAL WRITING

Contemporary relevance

CHAPTER 9. WOMEN AND SOCIETY IN NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA: ROLES AND RUPTURES

‘Dear Mr Plaatje’: A network of support

‘You have set a grand example’: African women and domesticity

‘One's sex will no longer debar her’: Women in public life

Conclusion

CHAPTER 10. AFRICAN PROGRESSIVISM, LAND AND LAW: RE-READING NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Progressives and social engineering

The Land Act and the law

Native progressivism

Botswana miracle

Disappointment

CHAPTER 11. LAND AND BELONGING: ON THE TOMB YA GA SOLOMON PLAATJE

A real piece of legislation

Citizenship and belonging

An Act passed in haste

A product of his time

A ‘sacred’ home

CHAPTER 12. REVISITING THE LANDSCAPES OF NATIVE LIFE

A CONTEMPORARY REIMAGINING. The Road to Dikhudung

CONTRIBUTORS

Plaatje Resources. Sites of Interest

Biographies and Introductory Texts

Other Books by Plaatje

Archives and Select Primary Sources

LIST OF FIGURES. Cover:

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PAST AND PRESENT

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