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Book Feature/Boekbeskouing. Jean and John Comaroffs' Of Revelation and Revolution and Ethnography and the Historical Imagination

South Africa and the Pitfalls of Postmodernism

Pages 273-279 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • Atmore , A. and Westlake , N. 1972 . ‘A Liberal Dilemma: A Critique of the . Oxford History of South Africa', Race , 14 ( 2 ) : 107 – 36 . M. Legassick, “The Frontier Tradition in Southern African Historiography', in A. Atmore and S. Marks, eds, Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa (London, 1980), 44–79
  • Bozzoli , B. and Delius , P. 1990 . “ ‘History from South Africa’, special issue of ” . In Radical History Review 13 46/7; M. Murray, ‘The Triumph of Marxist Approaches in South African Social and Labour History’, Journal of Asian and African Studies, XXIII, 1–2 (1988), 79–101
  • Novick , P. 1988 . That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession Cambridge See (for a useful discussion of the discipline in the United States
  • Crais , C. 1992 . ‘Race, the State, and the Silence of History in the Making of Modern South Africa’ See, for example, An earlier version was presented at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. See also L. Manicom, ‘Ruling Relations: Rethinking State and Gender in South African History’, Journal of African History 33, 3 (1992), 441–65., African Studies Association Meeting
  • This is a common theme in many postmodernist works, including the volume reviewed here. Typically critics have noted the power of Nietzsche in the works of, for example, Foucault and Derrida. The phenomenon is, however, rather wider. Adorno and Horkheimer, the godfathers of the Frankfurt School, explored the dark side of Enlightenment. And even Weber mourned the rise of instrumental rationality
  • Bourdieu , P. 1977 . Outline of a Theory of Practice Edited by: Nice , R. Cambridge Here they are drawing on, trans
  • I owe this last point to Leslie Bank
  • Pratt , M. L. 1992 . Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation 201 London
  • Benjamin , W. 1969 . Illuminations Edited by: Arendt , H. 257 New York and intra

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