South Africa and the Colonial Intellectual

What are the characteristic features of the colonial intellectual? This essay approaches this question via two paths, historical and contemporary, in order to show the persistence of a legacy that shapes our work. Postapartheid South Africa and the debate around justice and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are set in the broader context of nineteenth century colonial language studies. With the benefit of hindsight, the animating aspects of the colonial context are traced to a formative ambivalence regarding property and possession. This reading is extended to recent work on ethics and South African restitution and testimony. Hegel’s treatment of Africa and his reading of Antigone form a thread linking past and present

Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Linguistics · Political science · Possession (linguistics) · Restitution · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture

• Reconciling Racial Revelations in Post-Apartheid South African Literature

  Milazzo Milazzo•Research in African Literatures•2016

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• On the Seeable Limits of Decolonial and Indigenous Scholarship

  Open Access•Luan Staphorst•Critical Arts•2024

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• Amnesty or Impunity? A Preliminary Critique of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC)

  Mahmood Mamdani•diacritics•2002

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• Hegel’s Antigone

  Patricia Jagentowicz Mills•Owl of Minerva•1986

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• Loss

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• From the German Ideology

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels et al.•The New Economic Sociology•2021

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• Capital

  Open Access•Karl Marx•On Violence•2020

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• Society Must Be Defended’

  Muriel Côte, Mark Coté•Canadian Journal of Communication•2004

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• Selected Writings, I

  Bertil Malmberg, Roman Jakobson•The Slavic and East European…•1967

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• System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit

  Samuel L Hart, G W F Hegel et al.•Philosophy and Phenomenological…•1981

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• Sparks in the Township

  Trevor Ngwane•New left review•2003

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• Resistance and Ideology in Settler Societies

  Cora Ann Presley, Tom Lodge•African Economic History•1990

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• The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom

  P S Thompson, Jeff Guy•The International Journal of…•1982

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• Class, imperialism and literary criticism

  Jeff Guy•Journal of Southern African Studies•1997

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• Specters of Marx

  Jacques Derrida•Specters of Marx•2012

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• South Africa, Limits to Change

  Derrick K Gondwe, Hein Marais•African Studies Review•1999

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• The Politics of the Rainbow Nation

  Richard Dale, Alec Boraine et al.•African Studies Review•2002

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• Hegel and Haiti

  Susan Buck‐mor, Susan Buck-Morss et al.•Critical Inquiry•2000

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