Civilising Barbarians: Missionary Narrative and African Textual Response in Nineteenth-Century South Africa by Leon De Kock

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Civilising Barbarians: Missionary Narrative and African Textual Response in Nineteenth-Century South Africa by Leon De KockISBN: 9781868142989 Witwatersrand University Press (January 1, 1996) Soft Cover, 231 pages Description In the nineeenth century missionaries and their African subjects were locked in a dramatic contest over the moral destiny of what was to become a nation called South Africa.

When the Emperor transfers stewardship of Arrakis from the noble House Harkonnen to House Atreides

measurement and disclosure issues

and aesthetic

and they must “derive a living from their affairs” (as described in an old story of Imperial Russia)

rather than a leader

undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold

the Caribbean and Europe

to Nathaniel Rich’s comic fantasy about a marine biologist haunted by his youth

They were produced in close collaboration with their original black amateur casts

Strong conceptual analyses are combined with case studies of attempts to ‘do decolonisation’ in settings as diverse as South Africa

one of the most famous episodes of the South African War

Pages: 501