Biko Lives! Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko

by Mngxitama, Andile; Alexander, Amanda; Gibson, Nigel C.

• ISBN13: 9780230606494
• ISBN10: 0230606490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.

Author Biography

Nigel C. Gibson is director of the Honors Program at Emerson College.

Amanda Alexander is a PhD student in African history at Columbia University and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Andile Mngxitama is a PhD student at the University of Witwatersrand.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. vii
Biko Lives	p. 1
Interview with Steve Biko	p. 21
Philosophic Dialogues
Biko: Africana Existentialist Philosopher	p. 45
Self-Consciousness as Force and Reason of Revolution in the Thought of Steve Biko	p. 69
A Phenomenology of Biko's Black Consciousness	p. 83
Biko and the Problematic of Presence	p. 95
May the Black God Stand Please!: Biko's Challenge to Religion	p. 115
Contested Histories and Intellectual Trajectories
Black Consciousness after Biko: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa, 1977-1987	p. 129
An Illuminating Moment: Background to the Azanian Manifesto	p. 157
Critical Intellectualism: The Role of Black Consciousness in Reconfiguring the Race-Class Problematic in South Africa	p. 171
Cultural Critique and the Politics of Gender
The Influences and Representations of Biko and Black Consciousness in Poetry in Apartheid and Postapartheid South Africa/Azania	p. 191
A Human Face: Biko's Conceptions of African Culture and Humanism	p. 213
Remembering Biko for the Here and Now	p. 233
The Black Consciousness Philosophy and the Woman's Question in South Africa: 1970-1980	p. 253
Interview with Strini Moodley	p. 267
Interview with Deborah Matshoba	p. 275
Notes on Contributors	p. 285
Index	p. 289
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