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Civilising Barbarians - Missionary Narrative And African Textual Response In 19th Century South Africa (Paperback)
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Civilising Barbarians - Missionary Narrative And African Textual Response In 19th Century South Africa (Paperback)
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This is the story of how allegories of human value, cast in
narrative dualities based on "civilization" and "barbarism", were
prescribed, reified and denied in the 19th-century's struggles over
human identity in South Africa. As fluid forms of subjectivity and
pre-national persuasion slowly emerged into the stratifications,
boundaries and principalities later to become "South Africa", a
battle was waged to give textual form and narrative shape to
conceptions of "proper" human presentation. This process,
illustrating how pervasive a broad sense of textuality may have
been in the settling of material destinies, coincided with the
supremacy of the book and the printed text as ultimate media for
resolving questions of all kinds, from the mundane to the
transcendental. The book takes a view of colonialism in South
Africa - missionary colonialism in particular - as a discursive
process rather than "realpolitik" primarily, and in so doing tells
an important tale about the stories which were partly responsible
for delivering South Africa into the paradoxical "modernity" of
segregation and apartheid.
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