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Title:Rethinking Sol Plaatje's Attitudes to Class, Empire and Gender
Author:Limb, PeterISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies
Volume:16
Issue:1
Pages:23-40
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:anticolonialism
biographies (form)
History and Exploration
nationalism
Ethnic and Race Relations
Politics and Government
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
About person:Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932)ISNI
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560240285310031
Abstract:Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1875-1932) is a cultural and political symbol of the 'new' South Africa: apostle of reconciliation, pioneer of integrating nationalism, a founding father of the ANC, and champion of the survival and vitality of African culture. Plaatje was a political leader and writer who challenged the inequality of settler colonialism. Throughout his life, he remained deeply concerned about the harsh conditions of African workers and the plight of African women. To understand Plaatje's position as an icon of the new South Africa, the author examines his complex attitudes to nation, class and gender, with a focus on his attitudes to African workers. He argues that recent insights of literary scholars, together with a close analysis of historical records and especially his journalism, and a re-envisaging of his life project, all point to 'another' Plaatje: not the stereotypical gentlemanly pro-Empire moderate, but the obstinate if at times timid fighter for the rights of all Africans. This necessitates significant modifications to the portrait crafted by Plaatje's biographer Brian Willan in 1984. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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