Rediscovering the Shock of the Other’s Gaze – Constructing Identity in the Era of Postcolonial and Post- Apartheid Africa and in a Globalized World
I pick up a hardening of attitudes, and I pick up racism. And I think, more than anything else, the book (Gift of Tongues) is a plea – we have to start imagining ourselves the other. (Antjie Krog, Mail and Guardian, October 3-9, 2003) For at least the last two-and-a-half decades, critical theory in the humanities […]