Description
This Companion examines how Nelson Mandela became the icon he is today and ponders the meanings and uses of his internationally recognizable image.
About the Author
Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is the author of The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place (2006). Her work has appeared in several important collections about South African culture and in journals such as Novel, Contemporary Literature, Cultural Studies, Research in African Literatures, and Modern Fiction Studies.
Reviews
'This book of twelve essays (almost entirely by South Africans) with an excellent introductory essay by Rita Barnard is inaugural ... His life story will be revised, his politics reinterpreted like Gandhi's. Like Gandhi, it will take time for reasoned, critical (and perhaps even deconstructive) judgments to arise. This book is a superb start.' Daniel Herwitz, Critical Inquiry
Book Information
ISBN 9781107600959
Author Rita Barnard
Format Paperback
Page Count 349
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 480g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 19mm