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Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century

Mini Dissertation (MA Social Science (African European Cultural Relations))--University of Pretoria, 2019.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/72856 Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century Wolff, Ernst lindobg424@gmail.com Gama, Lindokuhle Bagezile UCTD African Philosophy Mini Dissertation (MA Social Science (African European Cultural Relations))--University of Pretoria, 2019. This disquisition is an inter-disciplinary investigation into some dominant hegemonic narratives of black people in 20th-21st century South Africa as they are found in public discourses. I contend that there exist hegemonic narratives of black people which can be seen within the African Nationalism debates in South Africa. While not all hegemonic narratives of black people are African nationalist discourses, I illustrate how nationalism is a proverbial vehicle for the dissemination of a ‘truth’ and or a ‘unitary’ understanding of black people in South Africa over others. To be sure, the African Nationalism debates evinces the power/-knowledge dynamics imbued in the meaning, functions, and performances of black people This is with the aim to foreground the less dominant everyday lived experiences and narratives of black people. I do this with the use of the genealogical method of analysis so as to suspend historiographies and/or approaches to historiography that essentializes and advance absolute origins surrounding discourses on black people in South Africa. I aim to throw the fault lines of these dominant narratives into relief by way of a genealogical reading of various different and alternative historiographies, which include the works of black authors, black philosophers and black thinkers. Certainly, a genealogical analysis will aid me in foregrounding the plurality of Blackness. Conversely, my study aims to consider the degree to which these singular lived experiences, those that counter dominant hegemonic narratives, reflect sectors of black society rather than just individual particularities so as to further understand the post-colonial black condition. Andrew Mellon Foundation Philosophy MA Social Science (African European Cultural Relations) Unrestricted 2020-01-21T06:27:58Z 2020-01-21T06:27:58Z 2020 2019 Mini Dissertation Gama, LB 2019, Black People in Post-Colonial South Africa A Genealogical Analysis of Dominant and Plural Narratives of Black People in 20th-21st century, MA Social Science (African European Cultural Relations) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72856> A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72856 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
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African Philosophy
Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century
title Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century
title_full Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century
title_fullStr Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century
title_full_unstemmed Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century
title_short Black people in post-colonial South Africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th-21st century
title_sort black people in post colonial south africa a genealogical analysis of dominant and plural narratives of black people in 20th 21st century
topic UCTD
African Philosophy
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/72856