Study and revolt
| Autor: | Adam Sitze |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Literature History business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Theory of Forms 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies 050701 cultural studies Sketch State of emergency Reading (process) 0602 languages and literature Political Science and International Relations Sociology business Relation (history of concept) Order (virtue) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Safundi. 17:271-295 |
| ISSN: | 1543-1304 1753-3171 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17533171.2016.1178478 |
| Popis: | This essay is an inquiry into the forms of life and writing that emerge in the relation between study and revolt. After an initial sketch of the problem of “normal emergency” as it presents itself in post-apartheid South Africa, the essay then turns to a first reading of Richard Rive’s 1990 novel Emergency Continued in order to ask about the relations of study and revolt under conditions of a state of emergency. To deepen its reading of Rive, the essay makes a detour into the utopian theory of education set forth in 1972 by Richard Turner. The essay then turns to a second reading of Rive’s Emergency Continued in order to elucidate the unexpectedly utopian kernel of that text. The essay concludes with a reading of Zoe Wicomb’s short story “A Clearing in the Bush,” and a reflection on the relation between study and revolt under contemporary conditions. |
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