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Kgatle, Mmasoding Rachel. ""The Africanist School : a study in South African historiography"." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2077.
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Brizuela-Garci, Esperanza. "Decolonising African history : crises and transitions in African historiography (1950-1990)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252418.
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Taylor, Justin William. "The "life and work" of South African Historiography." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61207.
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South Africa has had three periods of historiographical change. As South Africa has
transitioned from colonialism, to apartheid, to democracy, historiography has been
influenced by those in power. Post-1994 and with the onset of a democratic
government, the Nation sought to create a new historiographical framework. However,
as this attempt to build a National historiography developed questions could be raised
as to whether this historiography was inclusive of a variety of sources?
This dissertation looks at three areas regarding South African historiography. First, the
current role of Churches in South Africa in fostering historiography. Second, the
theological framework of "Ras, Volk en Nasie", the "Kairos Document", and the "Belhar
Confession". Third, the depiction of South Africa by the Church of Scotland's National
magazine "Life and Work" during 1975 – 1985.
By looking at this time period, the thesis shows that as various strands of theology
developed in South Africa, these changes had connotations within the Church of
Scotland. Life and Work shows a distinct change in attitude towards the Dutch
Reformed Church and the Black Consciousness movement.
It argues that underrepresented stories about South Africa allow for a holistic
historiography. Churches in South Africa have an opportunity to use their position
within society to develop this holistic historiography and thus, historiography becomes
a practical theological issue.<br>Dissertation (MTh)--University of Pretoria, 2017.<br>Church History and Church Policy<br>MTh<br>Unrestricted
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Malowany, Maureen. "Representations of African women in the historical literature of Nigeria, 1890-1990." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61322.
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The thesis has been divided into five chapters. The three central chapters reflect paradigmatic shifts in Nigerian historiography. During the colonial era, although a few texts written by Nigerians entered the published literature, most writing was produced by non-Africans, anthropologists and colonial administrators, for the purpose of social investigation and control. With the establishment of Nigerian universities in 1948, academic historians, fuelled by the desire for independence, reclaimed their discipline to write local and national political histories. Encouraged by the concerns of the North American feminist movement of the 1970s, women gained an increasing presence in research and literature.<br>Contrary to earlier arguments, categories for representations of women in history coexist in time. There are periods such as the nationalist era, in which women are almost invisible. When women are present in the literature, however, they are seen both in complementary power relationships with men in certain economic areas, such as trading, and in other areas, such as taxation, subject to male power. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Toure, Abu Jaraad. "Towards A ‘Griotic’ Methodology: African Historiography, Identity Politics and Educational Implications." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1320631211.
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Usher, C. Anthony. "Exploring the contributions of John G. Jackson to African historiography." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1994. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1353.
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This thesis offers a comprehensive examination of the intellectual contributions of John Glover Jackson, an African American historian. Jackson, similiar to many other African American scholars, is self trained in the field of African history. This self training is a crucial element in this presentation for it is an attempt to present the autodidact's efforts and contributions as valid. This attempt reviews the archeological, anthropological, and cultural evidence presented by Jackson relating to his interpretations of man, God, and civilization.
The methodology utilized in this research consists mainly of examining secondary data. Primary materials include interviews, video recordings, and recorded lectures. Critiques of the scholarly content of these materials are included in the assessment of Jackson's work. Iconographic, linguistic and ethnological evidence will be presented as interpreted by Jackson.
The findings demonstrate that Jackson's contributions were virtually ignored. The reasons for this disregard are several. The dissenting nature of his presentation, his atheist reasoning and his lack of diplomacy contributed to his neglect.
The results of this study carry wide reaching implications in the different fields of historical research. An Important finding, for example, is that formal university training is not an absolute prerequisite in the writing of history. Of greater significance is the evidence presented and the integrity of the historian's scholarship. The autodidact and the formally trained scholar have much to offer historiography. Neither can be ignored if honest scholastic advancements is intended. This exploring of the contributions of the self taught scholar, John G. Jackson, attempts to support such a conclusion.
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Tatham, Gayle Kirsten. "The University of the Witwatersrand History Workshop and radical South African historical scholarship in the 1970's and 1980's." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22561.
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The thesis examines the History Workshop at the University of the University of the Witwatersrand in the context of radical South African historical scholarship. Not only is the History Workshop shown to mirror developments in radical scholarship but it is seen to guide and stimulate particular directions of research. The history of the Workshop is traced and its academic as well as popularising activities are examined. The Marxist social history approach, which was encouraged by the Workshop, is considered with reference to the social and political environment in which it emerged, and the international and local historiographical context. The issues, themes and concepts reflective of that approach are unpacked and some thought is given to their impact on Marxist categories of analysis. The History Workshop is seen to reflect and to have some influence on the direction pursued in labour and urban as well as rural history. In labour history, it pursued concerns of the social history of labour. Labour history was to take two different paths in the 1980's due partially to the influence of the Workshop group. Urban history grew rapidly as a field in the 1980's. The triennial Workshops reflected that development while the Workshop group particularly encouraged social history concerns within that field. The development of Marxist social history is seen in the change from an economistic approach in some of the papers presented at the first History Workshops to a broader social history emphasis in many of the later papers. The themes and issues arising out of urban Marxist social history are considered, as is their impact on the understanding of South Africa's urban history in general. The Workshop reflected and encouraged social history themes in rural history studies, which was another expanding field of research in the 1980's. These themes incorporated Africanist insight as well as an emphasis on oral history and local history. The Marxist social history studies, which were presented at the triennial Workshops, produced new insights into the rural history of South Africa which challenged earlier theories. The History Workshop with its materialist social history approach acted as a forum and as such, a catalyst for a radical scholarship in South Africa. The triennial workshops reflected what was happening in the terrain of Marxist social history. These Workshops, which attracted a large gathering of local, as well as foreign academics, legitimised that research and gave the Marxist social history scholars a certain standing within the local academic community. Although the study of South Africa's past may have similar directions in the late 1970's and 1980's without the presence of the Workshop, that presence gave a coherence and an added impetus to those routes of Marxist social history.
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Ijagbemi, Bayo 1963. "O-okun Yoruba in Yoruba art historiography: History, problems and prospects." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278548.
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One of the most obtrusive features of Yoruba studies has been its clear pattern of regional preferences and biases in its scholarship. This pattern is reflected in the present concentration of studies on the southwest, the northwest, the central subgroups of Ife, Owo, Ijesha, Egba, Ijebu, Oyo, and Ilorin on one hand, and the paucity of works on the northeast and southeast subgroups of the O-okun Yoruba, the Igbomina, the Ikale and the Ilaje on the other. There is no other subgroup where this particularistic trend in Yoruba studies and especially, art historiography can better be observed than with the scholarly neglect of the O-okun peoples, the most northeasterly of the Yoruba subgroups. An important goal of this thesis is to foreground the multi-culturalistic tendencies among the Yoruba and underscore the necessity to provide comparable scholarly attention to neglected subgroups, the O-okun peoples in particular.
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Klein, Deborah Rochelle. "Negotiating femininity, ethnicity and history : representations of Ruth First in South African struggle narratives." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19000.
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An exploration of South African historiography through the prism of representations of activist writer Ruth First (1925-1982) forms the focus of this thesis. Ignored in South African canonical histories during the apartheid era, Ruth First is frequently portrayed as an icon of the struggle in current accounts about the past. The dissertation is ordered by five central discussions: gender, political activism, Jewishness, maternal behaviour and the role of the individual in the community. With reference to her non-fiction writing, autobiographical accounts by her daughters and her contemporaries, photographic exhibitions and transcriptions of amnesty hearings to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (amongst other works), I trace Ruth First's presentation of identity through communications of dress, posture and language. I examine too the production of her image across time in South African culture. Imprisoned under the infamous Ninety-Day law in 1963, Ruth First subsequently wrote a memoir titled 117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation under South African Ninety-Day Detention Law (1965), which became known as a classic of the genre. Caught between her commitments to racial equality and a life of social privilege, between the demands of motherhood and her sociological research work in Africa, between performances of a white femininity and the suppressed ramifications of a difficult ethnic past, Ruth First shuttles between unsatisfactory subject positions. I propose here that Ruth First strains against the representative mantle which she is made to wear in post-apartheid tributes to the past, and which she herself sometimes donned as a lifetime member of the South African Communist Party, and later the African National Congress. As the daughter of poor Yiddish-speaking Jews from Lithuania, I propose that Ruth First is marked by a history of dislocation, immigration and revolutionary activity which she refused to acknowledge. I undertake my own historiographical exercise through which I re-situate Ruth First within an alternate heritage of Jewish activist women. An understanding of the historiographical process as a series of continuous adjustments of the past to politicized positions in the present underlies my examination. Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-326).
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Tisani, Nomathamsanqa Cynthia. "Continuity and change in Xhosa historiography during the nineteenth century : an exploration through textual analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002416.
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This study is an exploration of the making of Xhosa historiography from the end of the eighteenth century to the close of the nineteenth century. Continuity and change are key features that are identifiable in the writing of Xhosa history over the period. Selected documents provide evidence on how different writers built on the works of their predecessors. At the same time, over a period of hundred years, due to changing socio-political contexts, new ideas and perceptions crept into Xhosa history. European writers, who dominated the writing of Xhosa history, were made up of colonial officials, missionaries, and travellers. Sharing a common European Christian background these writers brought along their particular understanding of history, and held assumptions about the indigenous people and their past. However such assumptions were always in a state of flux. South-east Africans were also major contributors to the making of Xhosa history. Their oral traditions were important sources from which Xhosa history was produced. The African and European encounter in the making of Xhosa history meanHhat historioracy and historiography came together in the production of Xhosa history. At the end of the eighteenth century there were a handful of European travellers who explored the interior of southern Africa and recorded their observations of indigenous communities. These observations of south-east Africans, whom they divided into three racial groups, formed the basis of later writings about the indigenous communiti~s. The beginning of the nineteenth century brought the establishment of British rule at the C,ppe. This introduced new players into the African-European drama that was being acted out on the frontier. Colonial officials set out to inform themselves about the indigenous people, and this meant writing up their history. From the 1820s missionaries were a main source of information on amaXhosa. Xhosa history produced under the missionary influence included works by African converts, among whom Noyi was the most noteworthy. As British imperialism gained ground from the middle of the nineteenth century, history was increasingly used by British officials as a tool to justify their colonial expansion. Under Governor Grey there was a deliberate production of a Xhosa history that depicted amaXhosa as having a barbaric past and in need of civilisation. Theal who consulted Dutch and British archives as well as oral tradition made a major contribution to the writing of Xhosa history. But Theal later began to select evidence to show that amaXhosa were recent immigrants into southeast Africa. During the last quarter ofthe nineteenth century a band of literate Africans, using newspapers like Isigidimi and later Imvo Zabantsundu, embarked on writing African history. This study highlights the development of certain themes in Xhosa history, themes which remained central in later years. The royal theme became pivotal and in the process displaced other histories in African communities, like clan histories. This study has also traced the roots of some historical myths. For example claims by early travellers about an empty land fed into the migration theme which sought to explain amaXhosa as recent immigrants into south-east Africa. Xhosa historiography, just like its European counterpart, marginalised ordinary people, especially women, and became primarily an account of the lives and activities of ruling men.
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Gamieldien, Maheerah. "Lowering the gaze: Representations of Muslim women in South African society in the 1990's." University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6502.
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Magister Artium - MA<br>Muslim women’s lack of access to mosque space has left them with few opportunities to
direct or influence the interpretation of the theological texts. The mosque is an almost strictly
gendered space that is seen as a key platform from which Muslims are exhorted to fulfill
existing obligations and where new practices emerge as part of the creation of tradition in the
Muslim community. I would further like to argue that it is the acts and interventions of the
women who have claimed Islam and its belief system in its entirety as their own and then
shaped this to fit their lives that will enable Muslims to rethink existing attitudes to women
in Muslim communities.
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Phaneuf, Victoria M. "National and Minority Cultures in 21st Century France: North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/265371.
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Social conflict is common in many nations around the world. Tensions often arise from cultural misunderstandings and disagreements over national and group membership in multicultural populations. France offers a particularly clear example of such unrest. As a contemporary multi-ethnic, multicultural nation, France advocates both the belief in universal human rights as well as assimilationist policies designed to create a singular majority culture. North African immigrants and Pied-Noir repatriates are two groups at the center of recent debate in France. Both have historical ties to colonial French North Africa, but now reside within the modern French state. Each offers a unique case study of alternative strategies related to cultural negotiation and social tension as both groups currently demand recognition as French citizens and minorities. This dissertation analyses how North African and Pied-Noir minority communities in France engage discourses of history, culture, and identity to create a hospitable place for themselves in the French nation by redefining themselves both as minorities and as active citizens. One primary mechanism through which these groups achieve these goals is cultural associations, or social clubs. Cultural associations were legalized in 1901 and have not yet found a well-established role in France. Minorities use this institutional fluidity to develop concurrently their national and minority identities. Within such associations, they develop performances for both minority and outside audiences, engage contemporary French understandings of "culture," and acquire attention and resources needed to enact social change. One of the recurring tropes in such performances is the display of minority history and the role minorities play in French history. Through analysis of such activities this dissertation argues that these groups create new conceptions of national membership through their assertion of their right to be members in the French nation while retaining their cultural difference.
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Brito, Mario Eugenio Evangelista Silva. "Por uma descolonização da história: a historiografia africana da década de 1950, Kenneth Onwuka Dike e Cheikh Anta Diop." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5531.
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Previous issue date: 2015-08-31<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>The main topic of this study is the African historiography at the time of Africa’s
decolonization. We attempt to exam how the colonialism was built as a problem in the works
of two pioneered historians of that field from West Africa: Trade and Politics (1950) by
Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917-1983) and L’Afrique Noire Précoloniale (1960) by Cheikh Anta
Diop (1923-1986). This is an analysis within the scope of historical explanation which means
here African perspective. At first, we show schematically the place played by those works in
the historical and political culture of West Africa and metropolitan capitals (London and
Paris) in the post-war period and then comparing in detail the African perspective of the
works under survey.<br>O tema principal desta dissertação é a historiografia africana do período da descolonização da
África. Procuramos investigar como o colonialismo foi construído como um problema nas
obras de dois historiadores pioneiros desse campo oriundos da África Ocidental: Trade and
Politics (1956) de Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917-1983) e L’Afrique Noire Précoloniale (1960)
de Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986). Trata-se de uma análise no âmbito da explicação histórica:
aqui identificada como perspectiva africana. No primeiro momento, oferecemos um
panorama do lugar dessas obras na cultura histórica e política da África Ocidental, como
também no contexto metropolitano londrino e parisiense do pós-guerra. E em seguida
comparamos detalhadamente a perspectiva africana das obras em questão.
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Ludi, Paul Anthony. "Smuts : Lost in Transmission?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60380.
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This dissertation examines the transmission of the past and how it is affected by context, source materials, and the individual with regards to opinion and inherent bias. The subject of this analysis is Jan Christiaan Smuts and how he has been portrayed over the last century. Various authors are analysed with W. K. Hancock forming a kind of watershed given the access to primary material. The dissertation includes a brief discussion of South African historiography as well as a brief biographical outline of Smuts's life. The main concern is however a literature analysis of selected material which will set out to illustrate how information is often "lost in transmission."<br>Dissertation (MHCS)--University of Pretoria, 2016.<br>Historical and Heritage Studies<br>MHCS<br>Unrestricted
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Richman, Peter. "The Portrayal of Harlem Globetrotters' Owner Abe Saperstein: A Historical Investigation of Modern Perspectives." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/588.
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This Senior Thesis in History analyzes a number of newspaper articles from the 1950s and 1960s in order to investigate a noticeable historiographical narrative on former Harlem Globetrotters’ owner Abe Saperstein. Three historiographical accounts present the debated dichotomy of Abe’s character as a patronizing, bigoted owner toward his black players and as a champion of blacks’ rights. This research inquires as to the extent to which 1950s and 1960s newspaper portrayals of Abe either support or oppose historiographical interpretations. The resultant analysis argues that while a large portion of 1950s and 1960s articles bolster the substantially negative modern interpretations of Abe’s character, a significant amount of the primary sources present the owner in a much more favorable manner.
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Buqa, Wonke. "The role of St. Augustine as a North African church historian." Diss., Pretoria : [S.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11202007-110736/.
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Borges, Patricia de Souza. "Línguas africanas e português brasileiro: análise historiográfica de fontes e métodos de estudo no Brasil (sec. XIX-XXI)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-06082015-114127/.
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As relações entre as línguas africanas e o português brasileiro é tema recorrente nos estudos linguísticos produzidos no Brasil, desde o século XIX (cf., por exemplo, Macedo Soares 1942[1874/1891]) e parece estar em evidência no panorama contemporâneo, como o demonstra o número de trabalhos recentemente publicados. Ao analisar a história desta produção linguística, Bonvini (2009) propõe que os trabalhos produzidos podem ser distinguidos em duas tendências: influência e crioulização. Segundo ele, ambas as hipóteses sobre essas relações apresentam deficiências, especialmente quanto a dois aspectos: o tratamento das fontes e a metodologia de estudos empregada. Quanto às fontes, os trabalhos teriam sido formulados sem apoio em dados linguísticos precisos e identificados. Quanto à metodologia, as análises estariam centradas em aspectos léxico-semânticos ou morfossintáticos, níveis que Bonvini julga inadequados para tratar a questão. A partir dessas críticas, cumpre indagar: quais foram as fontes usadas nos trabalhos sobre as relações entre as línguas africanas e o português brasileiro? Toda a produção sobre o tema desenvolveu-se a partir dos mesmos princípios metodológicos? Houve mudanças no tratamento do tema: da hipótese da influência à crioulização? Nosso projeto teve como objetivos mapear e analisar a produção que investigou as relações entre o português brasileiro e as línguas africanas no Brasil e discutir a periodização para a história dessa produção. Tal análise foi baseada no conceito de programa de investigação, proposto por Swiggers (1981a, 1991a, 2004). Esse conceito permite distinguir e agrupar trabalhos produzidos sob diferentes teorias e em épocas distintas, uma vez que destaca sua natureza interna, isto é, a maneira de os estudiosos lidarem com um mesmo objeto de investigação. Assim analisamos essa produção a partir dos parâmetros de análise que definem um programa de investigação: visão (concepção de linguagem adotada, tipos de materiais de destaque e modos de conceber as relações entre linguagem e sociedade, linguagem e cultura, etc.), técnica\' (conjunto de princípios e métodos adotados) e incidência (formas linguísticas de análise privilegiadas e a natureza e função preferencialmente atribuídas a essas formas). O estudo desses três aspectos permitiu sinalizar tendências gerais na área do século XIX ao XXI: uma tendência sociocultural baseada na análise lexical e uma tendência híbrida, sociocultural e descritivista, cujo centro da análise é a sintaxe e a morfossintaxe. O percurso de pesquisa ainda permitiu elaborar uma bibliografia de textos fundamentais para o tratamento do tema nesses séculos.<br>The relations between African languages and Brazilian Portuguese are recurrent in the linguistic studies conducted in Brazil since the 19th century (cf., for example, Macedo Soares 1942[1874/1891]) and they are in evidence in the current scenario, as many works in the field have been recently published. When analysing the history of this linguistic production, Bonvini (2009) proposes that his work can be categorised into two trends: influence and creolization. According to him, both hypotheses on those relations present inaccuracies, especially regarding two aspects: the treatment of the sources and the research methodology adopted. As for the sources, the works would have been carried out without the support of identified accurate linguistic data. With regard to the methodology, the analyses revolved around lexical-semantic or morphosyntactic aspects, level considered inadequate by Bonvini to approach the subject. Based on those criticisms, the following questions are raised: what were the sources adopted in the investigations on the relations between African languages and Brazilian Portuguese? Has all the production on the subject been developed from the same methodological principles? Have there been changes in the treatment of the subject: of the hypothesis from the influence to the creolization? Our project aimed at tracking and analysing the production that investigated the relations between Brazilian Portuguese and the African languages in Brazil, and also the discussion on the periodization for the history of this production. Such an analysis was based on the concept of research program, put forward by Swiggers (1981a, 1991a, 2004). This concept enables the historiographer to distinguish and group research works produced under different theoretical approaches and from different periods, as it highlights their inner aspects, that is, the way in which scholars deal with the same object of investigation. By doing so, we analysed this production based on the parameters of analysis which define our \'research program\': view (view of language adopted, types of materials and ways of conceiving the relations between language and society, language and culture, etc.) technique (combination of principles and methods adopted) and incidence (linguistic forms of analysis which were privileged, as well as the nature and function preferably attributed to those forms. The study of those three aspects allowed us to point out the general trends in the field from the 19th to the 21st century: a sociocultural trend based on lexical analysis and a hybrid trend, sociocultural and descriptivist, the center of the analysis is the syntax and morphosyntax. The research course have also allowed it to prepare a bibliography of fundamental texts in order to discuss the topic in these centuries.
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Pezisa, Lindiswa. "Ubuntu: linking indigenous values with efforts in building a reconciled South Africa: the case of NMMU." Thesis, Nelson Mandela University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14477.
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This thesis investigates the role that African indigenous value systems, Ubuntu in particular, could play in building a reconciled South Africa. In doing so a discourse analysis on Ubuntu is conducted and its potential in facilitating social cohesion in the quest for nation building. Specific focus is drawn on higher education an important task if we are to consider the accusation that higher education like its society, is still undergoing transformation and is under pressure to provide quality education for all people whilst also considering the large numbers of cultures that exist. For much needs to be done in redressing the imbalances caused by the apartheid education system which was organized according to racial lines. In doing so, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is utilised as a case study with narrative presentations of how students perceive this traditional African value and its applicability to reconciliation in a post conflict society. For seemingly, there is something inherently important about this value in that it has been invoked and referred to in many important instances in South African history.
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Shy, Yulbritton. ""This is OUR AMERICA, TOO": Marcus B. Christian & the History of Black Louisiana." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1180.
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Louisiana's unique social and cultural history with its three-tiered racial system (rather than the biracial system that governed much of the United States) left the region and the history of its black inhabitants, outside of familiar narratives of United States black history. Marcus B. Christian, the self-trained intellectual, sought to research, and make public, the history of blacks in Louisiana. His career demonstrates the importance of training, economic status, and geographical focus in the production of African American history. Many of the stories he told, through writing and research, retrieved the largely forgotten history of Creoles of color. In fact, his own story was an extension of the black intellectual traditions of that Creole population. Even as his work revealed black Louisiana's unique culture, it also served as the foundation for Christian's own intellectual legacy, one with both material and intellectual dimensions.
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Richner, Jürg Emile. "The historiographical development of the concept "mfecane" and the writing of early Southern African history, from the 1820s to 1920s." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002406.
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The mfecane was for most of the twentieth century regarded as a historical certainty for the South African public and the Apartheid government, as well as for historians here and world-wide. The mfecane had achieved the permanence of a paradigm and a dominant discourse, as it was accepted equally by settler, liberal, Afrikaner, Africanist and Neo-Marxist historians. This certainty was shaken when Cobbing’s mfecane critique appeared in 1988, with which I concur. This study examines how mfecane history was written from the first published articles in mid-1823 until Walker coined the concept mfecane in 1928. This thesis undertakes a journey through a host of published works, books, pamphlets and articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, from which a number of conclusions emerge. The mfecane narrative was developed over a period of a hundred years in the English language by almost exclusively white, English-speaking male amateur historians and ethnographers. Their occupations, age, ideology and level of education differed markedly, but they shared one European ideological value, the discourse of the European “Image of Africa”, which regarded Africans as the negative Other of their own positively perceived society. This was a culturallyshared view of Africans, which formed the baggage in the mind of all writers examined, and accounts for the mfecane narrative’s negative attitude towards Africans. Furthermore, mfecane history was influenced by racism and the use of literary devices such as the gothic novel and the romance. Authors writing in the 1823 to 1846 period on events which had taken place in the “blank space” beyond the Cape Colony, which most of them had never visited, laid the basis for the mfecane narrative. It constituted a set of geographical or ethnically focused, separate accounts. These separate accounts focused on the themes of Shaka’s creation of the Zulu state, including his expulsion of several chiefdoms; his depopulation of Natal and the flight of the Fingo to the Transkei; the path of destruction of the Hlubi and Ngwane during their flight from Natal via the greater Caledon Valley area to the Transkei; the incorporation of the Kololo and other Sotho chiefdoms into the Mantatees - due to pressure from the invaders from Natal - who subsequently laid waste the Free State and Transvaal as far as Dithakong, where they were defeated; the further depopulation of the Transvaal by the Ndebele during their escape from Shaka; the flight of Moshoeshoe and his people to Thaba Bosiu where he built up the Sotho state, with Moshoeshoe being the only positive figure in this history. This multi-narrative was thereafter repeated without any critical thought by all authors examined until in 1885 Theal created a Zulu-centric, geographically integrated mfecane narrative whereby he integrated the previously separate accounts into one coherent whole - a whole which was so much more than the sum of its parts, but so far without a defining name. That was provided by Walker in 1928 when he coined the Xhosa neologism, mfecane. The Theal, Cory and Walker racist mfecane was thus bequeathed as the mfecane to the rest of the twentieth century.
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Maritz, P. J. (Petrus Jacobus). "Ben Marais (1909-1999) : the influences on and heritage of a South African Prophet during two periods of transformation." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25204.
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This thesis in Church History presents a biographic study on the life of Ben Marais against the political and ecclesiastic background of South Africa of the 20th century. The significance of Ben Marais’ life is approached through his correspondence with the secretaries of the World Council of Churches during the 1960s and 1970s. The letters, pertaining to the World Council of Churches financial and moral support for the organisations fighting against Apartheid, reflect on Ben Marais’ involvement with the World Council and his particular concerns. Through a study on the life of Ben Marais insight can be gained into the thinking of the leadership of the NG Kerk. The study presents Ben Marais as a prophet who challenged the then popular tendencies in the NG Kerk theology on policy justification and on the relation between religion and nationalism. The central question in this study asks, what led an ordinary man, of humble background, to the insights he reflected, and guided him through times of transparent opposition to maintain his belief in what was right and just? What was the essence of his theology and understanding of the South African problem? To what extent could the church leaders of the present, and the future learn from his example and life, in terms of the tribulations faced, different schools of thought, and sentiments, both nationalistic and spiritual? The study then wishes to test the following hypothesis: Ben Marais can be considered as one of the steadfast and humble prophets of the church in Southern Africa during the 20th century, who serves as an example of Christian Brotherhood, regardless of the perplexities, for present and future generations on relations between the affairs of faith, state and society. The thesis presents a broader introduction on Church Historiography. Ben Marais’ own historiographical reflection is considered. The approaches to history are summarised as background to the periodisation model adopted by the study. The study wishes to work with a thematic model set against a chronological framework. Sensitivity to geographical concerns is also expressed. Afrikaner Nationalism is not seen in isolation, but in relation to African, English and Indian Nationalism.<br>Thesis (DD)--University of Pretoria, 2005.<br>Church History and Church Policy<br>unrestricted
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Ray, Giulia. ""Wiping the Slate Clean of What Has Never Been Written". The Sout African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, History Education and the Building of National Identity." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2621.
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<p>During Apartheid, the history subject in South African national education and the use of history served as fuel both for apartheid as well as for counterhistoriography. Afterthe 1994 elections, the official debate used phrases like "reconciliation through truth" and "knowledge about the past" in order to"move on". The national institution the Truth and Reconciliation Commission advocated a shared understanding of the past for promoting reconciliation. Considering historiography’s earlier contested use, one might expect the history subject in post-apartheid national education would be emphasised as very important, serving as an important tool for the general shaping of South African identity.</p><p>Earlier research as well as my own study, has shown that this is not the case. From the viewpoint of history teachers in South African schools and through various documents on South African post-apartheid education, it seems that the major shift in South African education is the one to an outcome-based approach (OBE). The approach and the new Curriculum (C2005) seem, in fact, have minimised the history subject to the extent that it is no longer a subject in its own right. In addition, the new Curriculum does not list a specific content, which allows the individual teacher large freedom to teach as much or as little about the past as they like. Moreover, what have been emphasised are subjects like science and technology, as well as learning practical skills of "constitutional value". In addition, phrases like "the new patriotism" and "allegiance to the flag" seems to be a recent way to create and promote a shared South African identity.</p>
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Mulholland, Rebekkah Yisrael. "Cullah Mi Gullah, African American Female Artists and the Sea Islands: Exploring Africanisms and Religious Expressions in Creative Works." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1340413742.
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Shaw, John Brendan. "Touching History to Find “a Kind of Truth”: Black Women’s Queer Desires in Post-Civil Rights Literature, Film, and Music." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468845503.
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Webster, Alan Charles. "Land expropriation and labour extraction under Cape colonial rule : the war of 1835 and the "emancipation" of the Fingo." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002425.
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The interpretations of the war of 1835 and the identity of the Fingo that were presented by the English settlers, have remained the mainstays of all subsequent histories. They asserted that the war of 1835 was the fault purely of 'Kaffir' aggression, that it was controlled by Hintza, the paramount chief, and that the ensuing hostilities were justifiable colonial defence and punishment of the Africans. The arrival of the Fingo in the Colony, it was claimed, was unconnected with the war. It was alleged that the seventeen thousand Fingo brought into the Colony in May 1835 were all Natal refugees who had fled south from the devastations of Shaka and the 'mfecane', and who had then become oppressed by their Gca1eka hosts. Both of these 'histories' need to be inverted. The 'irruption' of December 1834 was not unprovoked Rharhabe aggression, but the final response to years of the advance of the Cape Colony. Large areas of Rharhabe land had been expropriated, and their cattle regularly raided. Their women and children had been seized and taken into the Colony as labourers. The attacks were carried out by only a section of the Rharhabe on specific areas in Albany. The damage caused, and stock taken, was vastly exaggerated by the colonists. The Cape Governor, D'Urban, and British troop reinforcements arrived in Albany in January, and the Rharhabe were invaded two months later. D'Urban later invaded the innocent Gcaleka, took cattle, wreaked havoc and killed Hintza after he refused to ally with the Colony. The Fingo made their appearance at this moment. They were not a homogenous group. There were four categories within the term: mission and refugee collaborators (who were given land at Peddie and had chiefs appointed), military auxiliaries, labourers, and later, destitute Rharhabe seeking employment in the Colony. Only a small minority of the total Fingo were from Natal. The majority of the Fingo appear to have been Rharhabe and Gcaleka women and children, captured by the troops during the war and distributed on farms in the eastern districts to ameliorate the chronic labour shortage. Thus, instead of the year 1835 being one of great loss for the eastern Cape, as claimed by the settler apologists, it was a catalyst to the economic development of the area. All Rharhabe land was seized, to be granted as settler farms. Well over sixty thousand Rharhabe and Gcaleka cattle were captured and distributed amongst the colonists. The security threat of the adjacent Rharhabe and the independent Gcaleka was removed. And a large colonial labour supply was ensured.
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April, Thozama. "Theorising women: the intellectual contributions of Charlotte Maxeke to the struggle for liberation in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3847_1360849448.
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<p>The study outlines five areas of intervention in the development of women&rsquo<br>s studies and politics on the continent. Firstly, it examines the problematic construction and the inclusion of women in the narratives of the liberation struggle in South Africa. Secondly, the study identifies the sphere of intellectual debates as one of the crucial sites in the production of historical knowledge about the legacies of liberation struggles on the continent. Thirdly, it traces the intellectual trajectory of Charlotte Maxeke as an embodiment of the intellectual contributions of women in the struggle for liberation in South Africa. In this regard, the study traces Charlotte Maxeke as she deliberated and engaged on matters pertaining to the welfare of the Africans alongside the prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century. Fourthly, the study inaugurates a theoretical departure from the documentary trends that define contemporary studies on women and liberation movements on the continent. Fifthly, the study examines the incorporation of Maxeke&rsquo<br>s legacy of active intellectual engagement as an integral part of gender politics in the activities of the Women&rsquo<br>s Section of the African National Congress. In the areas identified, the study engages with the significance of the intellectual inputs of Charlotte Maxeke in South African history.</p>
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Ashton, Eugéne Mark. "The historiography of the formation of the Union of South Africa." Pretoria : [S.n.], 2010. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03102010-183227.
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Pietschmann, Franziska. "A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale: Reconstructing Punk Rock History." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-62981.
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Embedded in the transatlantic history of rock ‘n’ roll, punk rock has not only been regarded as a watershed moment in terms of music, aesthetics and music-related cultural practices, it has also been perceived as a subversive white cultural phenomenon. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale challenges this widespread and shortsighted assumption. People of color, particularly black Americans and Britons, and Latina/os have pro-actively contributed to punk’s evolution and shaped punk music culture in the United States and England. Examining why people of color are not linked to the punk rock genre and culture in normative discourse, this paper first scrutinizes the continuously unaddressed racialization of Anglo-American popular music itself and explores how the historical development and discursive construction of racial boundaries impacted the historiography of Anglo-American popular music. Building on these premises, the second central field of inquiry probes how the music press, aided and abetted by academic texts, constructs punk as a white music mono-culture that such discourse historicizes, analyzes, and maintains. Both popular (journalistic) and academic publications have largely ignored or underrepresented the presence of people of color, especially black (American) as well as Latina/o participants, in punk rock culture. The thesis’ third major focus imagines punk as a fluid social and musical convergence culture that continuously crosses unstable boundaries of genres, races, and genders. A Blacker and Browner Shade of Pale thus indicates an emerging awareness of how popular and academic discourse can become more sensitive to punk's multiracial, inclusive, and participatory mores.
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Venter, Carina. "The influence of early Apartheid intellectualisation on twentieth-century Afrikaans music historiography." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2839.
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Thesis (MMus (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis attempts to understand questions of our past in the present. It is broadly
premised on the assumption of complicity as an interpretive frame in which the
relationship between Apartheid intellectualisation and Afrikaans music historiography
can be elucidated. Its protagonists are Gerrie Eloff, Geoffrey Cronjé, H.F. Verwoerd,
Piet Meyer, Jan Bouws, Rosa Nepgen and Jacques Philip Malan. In each of the four
chapters, I attempt to construct metaphors, points of intersection or articulation
between Apartheid intellectualisation and Afrikaans music historiography. Music is
never entirely absent: for Apartheid ideologues such as Geoffrey Cronjé and Gerrie
Eloff musical metaphors become ways of enunciating racial theories, for the Dutch
musicologist Jan Bouws music provides entry into South Africa and its discourses, for
J.P. Malan music becomes a conduit that could facilitate national goals and for Rosa
Nepgen music constitutes the perfect domain for and the gestating impulse of her own
often ornate national devotions. Some of the themes addressed in this thesis include
the language and metaphors of Apartheid intellectualisation, discourses of paranoia,
struggle, purity, contamination, the ‘Afrikanermoeder’ (‘Afrikaner mother’), the
cultural language of Afrikaner nationalism and the reciprocity between cultural
fecundity and dominance of the land. The final denouement comprises a positing of
the Afrikaans art song ‘O Boereplaas’ and the singing soprano Afrikanermoeder who
emerges as the keeper of Afrikaner blood purity, guardian of her race and prophet of
its fate and future.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis probeer om vrae uit ons verlede in die hede te verstaan. Die aanname van
komplisiteit verskaf ’n premis en interpreterende raamwerk waarbinne die verhouding
tussen Apartheid-intellektualisering en Afrikaanse musiekhistoriografie belig kan
word. Die protagoniste van hierdie tesis is Gerrie Eloff, Geoffrey Cronjé, H.F.
Verwoerd, Piet Meyer, Jan Bouws, Rosa Nepgen en Jacques Philip Malan. In elk van
die vier hoofstukke poog ek om metafore, punte van kruising of artikulasie tussen
Apartheid-intellektualisering en Afrikaanse musiekhistoriografie te konstrueer.
Musiek word nooit buite rekening gelaat nie: vir Apartheid-ideoloë soos Geoffrey
Cronjé en Gerrie Eloff word musikale metafore maniere hoe teorieë oor ras
geformuleer kan word, vir die Nederlandse musikoloog Jan Bouws verleen musiek
toegang tot Suid-Afrikaanse kulturele diskoerse, vir J.P. Malan word musiek ’n kanaal
waardeur nasionale doelstellings vloei en vir Rosa Nepgen verteenwoordig musiek die
ideale omgewing en teelaarde vir haar eie en gereeld oordadige nasionale lofuitinge.
Sommige van die temas wat in hierdie tesis aangespreek word sluit in die taal en
metafore van Apartheid intellektualisering, diskoerse van paranoia, stryd, suiwerheid,
kontaminasie, die Afrikanermoeder, die kulturele taal van Afrikanernasionalisme en
die wederkerigheid tussen kulturele oplewing en oorheersing van Suid-Afrika. Die
tesis word tot slot gevoer deur ’n besinning oor die Afrikaanse kunslied ‘O
Boereplaas’ en die singende sopraan, die Afrikanermoeder, wat na vore tree as die
bewaarder van Afrikaner-bloedsuiwerheid, oppasser van haar ras en die profetes van
die volk se lot en toekoms.
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Murray, Paul Leonard. "The historiographic metafiction of Etienne van Heerden." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53120.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the possibility that there are other ways in which to represent the past, not just the traditional way as practised by historians. For instance, other forms such as historical fiction in the historical novel, and therefore, narrative, can act as an important conduit for conveying historical meaning. Through the examination of the historiographic metafiction of the South African writer, Etienne Van Heerden, this study has concluded that through a reading of both the author's belletristic and theoretical texts, readers interested in history and literature will gain some understanding of the
problems that come with writing up the past. At the same time, they will gain some knowledge of a different way of writing about South African history, because the author portrays the historical events in a refreshing, vivid and imaginative way. However, it needs to be said from the outset that in no way is the writer of this thesis neglecting the merits of traditional history or advocating its abolition, which is, ultimately, the scientific way of representing the past and remains sacred and paramount for the historian, both amateur and professional.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die moontlikheid dat die verlede volgens ander sienswyses voorgestel kan word en nie slegs volgens die tradisionele sienswyses van historici nie. Daar is byvoorbeeld ander vorme, soos historiese fiksie wat in historiese novelles gebruik word, en daarom kan die narratief as 'n belangrike kanaal dien om historiese betekenis mee oor te dra. Deur 'n ondersoek van die historiese metafiksie van die Suid-Afrikaanse skrywer, Etienne van Heerden, kom hierdie studie tot die gevolgtrekking dat deur die lees van beide die skrywer se belletristiese en teoretiese tekste, lesers wat in die geskiedenis en literatuur belangstel, 'n begrip sal kry van die problematiek wat gepaard gaan met die skryf van geskiedenis. Terselfdertyd sal hulle 'n begrip kry van 'n alternatiewe skryf van die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis, omdat die skrywer historiese gegewens in 'n verfrissende, helder en verbeeldingryke wyse oordra. Dit moet egter beklemtoon word dat die skrywer van hierdie tesis geensins die meriete van tradisionele geskiedskrywing negeer of die afskaffing daarvan voorstaan nie, aangesien die wetenskaplike voorstelling van die verlede kosbaar en van kardinale belang vir beide amateur en professionele historici bly.
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Drakeford, Lillian Dowdell. "What's Race Got to Do with It?: A Historical Inquiry into the Impact of Color-blind Reform on Racial Inequality in America's Public Schools." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1286127101.
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Keeler, Matthew. "BESSIE SMITH: AN AMERICAN ICON FROM THREE PERSPECTIVES." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1130967483.
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Annandale, Robert. "Historiography, post-colonial theory, and Roman North Africa, a study of the impact of cultural beliefs on historical knowledge." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62685.pdf.
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Ebah, Mathias Codjo. "L'Afrique au fond des yeux : conceptions contemporaines de l'histoire africaine." Reims, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993REIML006.
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Depuis des siècles l’Afrique a préoccupé les esprits de tous les milieux comme en témoignent les écrits du quinzième au vingtième siècle. Mais le continent avait été aborde avec des préjuges plutôt qu'avec des méthodes de recherches fiables. Et bien que plus proche de l’Europe que les autres continents, il est présente comme isole, inhospitalier, anhistorique et surtout vide culturellement. Il présenta par la suite quelque intérêt comme réserve d'esclaves, de main d'œuvre. Par contre, très tôt, en Asie on a procédé a des fouilles systématiques qui dans un premier temps en avaient fait le berceau de l'humanité, mais aussi, le point de départ de foyers culturaux et culturels ayant influence le monde. L’Afrique se voit de nouveau propulsée sur la scène internationale par la "décolonisation" qui devrait conduire a une reprise en main par les africains, de ses destinées. Il est donc légitime que chacun se débarrasse de ses complexes, que tous les partenaires se connaissent enfin, afin de discuter objectivement de l'avenir de l'humanité. Pour les africains le rappel du passe ne doit pas conduire au narcissisme. Il est une exhortation au travail. C'est pourquoi nous avons analyse la situation catastrophique actuelle sur le plan économique, social et politique. Ce constat nous a incite a élaborer un plan de redressement culturel et économique. Nous sommes conscients des difficultés et des embuches; mais avec une réelle prise de conscience et une collaboration étroite avec l'occident, le continent peut retrouver sa dignité<br>For centuries africa has been at the center of european preocupations. It is evidentz when we study the manuscrit from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. But this continent had rathes been studied with prejudices than with reliable scientific methods. An ever if africa is closer to europe than the other continents, it is presented as isolated un-welcoming, without a true history and above all culturraly empty. If then proved to be of some interest being a continent rich in slaves and manpower. On the contrary, in asia systematic excavations were soon carried out, granding in the title of cradle of civilization. But in fact, for several de cades, thanks to scientific discoveries made by french and americans researchers, we begin to see africa with different way. It is nowadays proved that africa has not only been the cradle of civilization, but also the starting point of cultural and agricultural seats which had a universal unfluence. Africa once more saw itself propelled on the international scene with the colonization which gave the african people the opportunity to regain the control of their destinies. Therefore it is totaly lawful that every partenaires know each other at last, to examine objectiviely of the futur of humanity. For the african people the remebrance of things past must not lead to dejection. It is an exhortation to work. That's why have analized the present economical, social and political situation which is problematic. This report made us elaborate a cultural and economical recovery plan. We do know the difficulties and pitfalls, but thanks to a true awareness and good collaboration with the occident, the african continent can recover its dignity
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Barbosa, Muryatan Santana. "A África por ela mesma: a perspectiva africana na História Geral da África (UNESCO)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-09012013-165600/.
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Esta tese traz uma análise da perspectiva africana na coleção História Geral da África (UNESCO). Para isto, baseia-se no exame da história institucional do projeto que lhe originou e da escrita da história ali presente, em seus oito volumes. Tais considerações levaram a definição da perspectiva africana como uma perspectiva que privilegia os fatores internos ao continente, em oposição aos externos, na explicação histórica, científica, da África. Ademais, constatou-se que esta perspectiva se diversifica, na História Geral da África (HGA), em três abordagens complementares da história da África: a) regionalismo; b) difusionismo intra-africano; c) sujeito africano. A partir de tal investigação, reflete-se sobre algumas consequências teóricas e metodológicas que tal perspectiva africana traz para uma visão científica contemporânea e tendencialmente pós-eurocêntrica da história da África.<br>This thesis presents an analysis of the African perspective in the project General History of Africa (UNESCO). It examines the institutional history of the project and the writing of history in this collection of eight volumes. Such considerations have led to the definition of the African perspective as a perspective that focuses on the internal factors of the continent, as opposed to external ones, in its scientific explanation of Africa history. In addition, this study concluded that this perspective unfolds into three complementary approaches of the General History of Africa (GHA): a) regionalism b) intra-African diffusionism c) African subject. This analysis provides the basis for a discussion on some theoretical and methodological outcomes that such an African perspective brings to a scientific view on the history of Africa that is contemporary and potentially post-Eurocentric.
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Sfaxi, Intissar. "Contribution à la connaissance de la langue libyque : l'apport de l'onomastique." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3046.
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Partant du constat qu'il existe pour les autres domaines linguistiques représentés dans l'Afrique antique (punique, latin) des inventaires et outils onomastiques très complets, notre ambition a été d'élaborer, pour le domaine libyque un instrument comparable, qui rassemble les matériaux et en propose une étude linguistique et étymologique aussi systématique que possible. Dans le vaste champ de l'onomastique, notre recherche s'est focalisée prioritairement sur l'anthroponymie, l'ethnonymie, et dans une moindre mesure sur la théonymie. On a postulé que les matériaux onomastiques pouvaient apporter quelques lumières sur la langue libyque puisque une grande part des noms étudiés sont des vocables indigènes d’une authenticité incontestable. L'analyse linguistique et étymologique des données onomastiques permet ainsi un accès immédiat à la langue libyque. La documentation, rassemblée, commentée et analysée, constitue les bases d'un corpus onomastique (Onosmasticon libycum), qui compte actuellement 636 bases lexicales, et autorise un certain nombre de considérations sociolinguistiques sur les univers libyco-punique et libyco-romain. Sur le plan linguistique, l'étude du corpus onomastique permet d'avoir à la fois un ensemble de renseignements lexicaux et grammaticaux utile pour l'histoire de la langue, et un ensemble de données ponctuelles relatives à la situation linguistique antique. L'examen des données onomastiques libyques et les résultats obtenus constituent une première approche de la langue libyque et une base de réflexion et de travail qui pourra être développée dans des recherches ultérieures<br>Starting from the observation that there are inventories and comprehensive onomastic tools for the other linguistic spheres represented in ancient North Africa (Punic, Latin), my goal has been to develop a comparable instrument for the Libyan sphere which would bring together materials and provide a linguistic and etymological study as systematic as possible. In the vast field of onomastics, my research has focused primarily on anthroponomy, ethnonymy, and to a lesser extent on theonymy. It has been postulated that the onomastic materials could shed some light on the libycal language as the largely studied names are indigenous terms whose authenticity is beyond question. The linguistic and etymological analysis of onomastic data from epigraphic and historical sources provides an immediate access to the Libycal language. The materials of our work cover all of Ancient North Africa, which enables us to offer a global vision. Assembled, annotated and analyzed documentation is the basis for an onomastic corpus (Onosmasticon libycum), which currently has 636 lexical bases, and authorizes a number of sociolinguistic considerations on the Libyco-Punic and Libyco-Roman worlds. Linguistically speaking, the study of the onomastic corpus allows for both a set of useful information for lexical and grammatical history of the language, and a precise set of data relating to the ancient linguistic situation. The examination of the Libycal onomastic data and its results constitute a first approach to the Libycal language and a starting point and working basis which could be developed in future research
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Borges, Jorgeval Andrade. "A vez da África?: o ensino da história africana em escolas públicas da Bahia." Faculdade de Educação, 2014. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/18025.
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Tese de Doutorado Jorgeval Borges.pdf: 2510525 bytes, checksum: db0141ac3eeaae6269c04324db607472 (MD5)<br>UESB/SAEB<br>Esta tese traz uma investigação da situação do ensino da história da África em escolas públicas baianas. A anáilse que é desenvolvida nesse trabalho se baseia na perspectiva dos professores que lecionam a disciplina História na rede pública estadual de ensino da Bahia. Através de depoimentos e reflexões feitas pelos referidos docentes com a utilização das técnicas de aplicação de questionários e debates realizados em grupos focais se vislubrou um quadro da situação do ensino de África na disciplina História na Educação Básica. Do mesmo modo, se apresenta elementos que são considerados favoráveis ou obstáculos para a inserção da história africana nas escolas. No corpo do trabalho se faz uma exposição da historiografia sobre a África e uma análise das Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais relacionadas à temática dos estudos afro-brasileiros e africanos. Tais procedimentose serviram como auxílio para análises dos conteúdos da história africana que de fato estão sendo levados para as salas de aula nas escolas. Os resultados do trabalho levaram à formulaçaõ central de que a inserção da história da África nas escolas acontecem preponderantemente na forma de projetos sem, contudo, ser inserida nos planos das disciplinas escolares. A África que está inserida nas escolas públicas estudadas nessa pesquisa se apresenta em forma de projetos e dependente de ação voluntária dos educadores. A ideia central aponta a reflexão de que a dificuldade para uma implementação da África no curriculo escolar de forma apropriada se deve substancialmente à problemática da formaçaõ docente e ausência de ação organizada e sistematizada do poder público.<br>ABSTRACT This thesis brings a investigation of the Africa History teaching situation in Bahia public schools. The analysis developed in this paper is based in this paper is based in the teacher’s point of view who teach history subject in the state public school in Bahia. Through points and reflections made by mentioned teachers in focal groups showed the situation of teaching of African History subject in the Basic Education. In the same way, it’s shown elements which are considered favorable or obstacles to the inclusion in the Africa history at schools. In the paper it’s made an exposition of historiography about Africa and an analysis of National Curricula’s rules related to African-brazilians and Africans topics. Such proceedings served as aid to analysis of the contents of the paper results took to central elaboration of the including of Africa history at schools happen primery as projects noretheless be included in the plans of the school subjects. African which is included in the public schools studied in this research is presented as projects and depends on the teachers voluntary actions. The main idea takes to a reflection that the difficult for including Africa in the school schedule by the proper way is due substantially to the problematical of teacher studies and absent to organize and systematized action of public government.
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Abela, Joan Angela. "The impact of the arrival of the Knights of St John on the commercial economy of Malta 1530-1565." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8182.
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Much has been written about various aspects of the long presence of the Knights of the Order St John on the island of Malta. Nonetheless, throughout this literature there is one noticeable omission - a study of the commercial development of the harbour area during the first decades of the Order’s rule. Despite Malta’s small size, the presence of the Order of St John (1530 -1798) ensured an inflow of foreign resources which eventually permitted very dense human settlement and an international projection beyond the island’s shores which was largely disproportionate to what would normally have occurred in such a small and sterile island. The maritime nature of the Order and the heavy dependence on imports hastened the creation of an efficient maritime communication system. The development of all these economic activities resulted in a prime economic means of generating wealth and served as a pull factor to a large number of enterprising individuals, both local and foreign. Early modern Hospitaller Malta eventually saw the consolidation of an enterprising business class, which, out of sheer necessity, grew accustomed to operating well beyond its narrow confines. In turn, this contributed to the island becoming more open to connectivity with the outside world. Hence, the main aim of this thesis is to explore in detail various economic activities taking place in Malta during this particular period which spans from 1530 to 1565. The year 1565 has been chosen as a marker since during this year there was a break in the normal chain of events due to the turmoil created by the Great Siege. In order to reach this goal the practical functioning of commerce with its agreements and disputes, its currencies, its trading posts and its nodal points shall be analyzed. Furthermore, this thesis strives to show how notarial evidence, together with that derived from records of various tribunals set up on the island at the time, supplement each other and help to fill in gaps. While discussing different methodological approaches to the study of the Mediterranean, the first chapter of this study shall also assess Malta’s place within the wider Mediterranean historiographical framework. It shall also trace the development of Maltese historiography and its contribution to the study of legal, economic and social issues relating to the sixteenth century. Furthermore, this study shall place the various series of primary sources used for its compilation in their proper context, thus allowing the reader to evaluate better the significance of the information provided. The second chapter shall evaluate how the arrival of the Order provided for the setting up of new institutions and for the promulgation of new laws in order to consolidate its authority over the island despite repeated promises to respect and honour ancient rights and privileges. The following three chapters shall each be dedicated to a particular case study which will try to address specific topics that have been largely neglected in Maltese historiography. Thus, starting with an analysis of the grain trade, which was of the utmost importance for a sterile island with an ever-increasing population, it will be followed by another case study which seeks to evaluate the role of women, their legal persona and how this affected their contribution to the island’s economic activities. The final chapter will try to establish whether there were any commercial links between Malta, often described as the frontier and bulwark of Christianity, and its neighbouring Ottoman North African territories. If such trade existed, how did merchants, both Christian and Muslim, manage to overcome religious antagonism which should have inhibited the easy flow of trade? The objective of this study shall therefore be to shed much-needed light on economic activities taking place in and around the harbour area during a largely unexplored period in Maltese history. Moreover, it shall seek to provide a better understanding of Mediterranean commercial relations since the Maltese harbour was a point of intersection not only for people of different nationalities, but even for people of different faiths, such as Muslims, Jews and Christians of different denominations. All had one common goal which unified them, that is, trading and making profit out of it.
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Sippel, Elizabeth. "The role of memory, museums and memorials in reconciling the past : the Apartheid Museum and Red Location Museum as case studies." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005773.
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When South Africa became a democracy, many of its cultural institutions were tainted by the stigma of having been tools for the production and propagation of apartheid ideology. This thesis examines two key facets of post-apartheid museums and memorials. Firstly, how they have repositioned themselves as institutions of cultural and social standing. Secondly, their role as tools of nation building, social change, and creators of national collective memory within the new democratic South Africa. Through an analysis of cultural memory theory pertaining to museology, this study elaborates on the methods employed by museums to incorporate memory into their narratives and in turn, transfer collective memory to their viewers. This thesis provides a comparative study of the architectural, memorial and museological strategies of two post-apartheid museums; the Red Location Museum and the Apartbeid Museum. It examines the contributions of both museums to the introduction of new museological strategies for the successful creation and transmission of South African collective memory. Through this analysis, both the invaluable contributions and the drawbacks of post-apartheid museums as tools for the promotion of new democratic ideologies and philosophies are considered. This thesis does not resolve the arguments and questions which have surfaced regarding cultural institutions as tools for the promotion of reconciliation and the construction of national collective memory within South Africa. As the current climate of memorialisation is one of change and paradox, it is presently impossible to fully quantify post-apartheid museums' roles within South Africa's move toward reconciliation and social change. However, the examination of both the Red Location Museum and the Apartheid Museum reveals the extraordinary change that South African cultural institutions have undergone in addition to their potential to become institutions which facilitate active reconciliation as well as social and cultural growth.
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Bastien-Schmit, Sévrine. "La représentation de l'histoire africaine américaine dans les manuels scolaires du XXe siècle : une étude comparative de manuels d'histoire américains publiés entre 1930 et 1992." Paris 7, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA070071.
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Boukari-Yabara, Amzat. "Walter Rodney (1942-1980) : itinéraire et mémoire d'un intellectuel africain : les fragments d'une histoire engagée du panafricanisme." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0019.
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Menée à partir d'archives inédites et de terrains (en Guyana, Tanzanie, Trinidad, UK, USA. . . ), cette thèse porte sur l'historien Walter Rodney (1942-1980). En croisant l'histoire avec l'anthropologie, l'économie et la philosophie politique, les problématiques panafricaines se précisent au fil d'une analyse qui, grâce à des histoires parallèles, offre plusieurs perspectives: celle de Rodney l'historien et l'activiste politique, et de l'auteur, qui cerne la pertinence contemporaine de son œuvre. L'introduction rappelle les thèses qui, autonomes ou dépendantes, classiques ou dissidentes, éclairent l'histoire panafricaine. Après un rappel des circonstances de sa mort violente, l'exposé des thèses de Rodney sur l'impact de la traite, le capitalisme et le développement, introduit aux controverses historiographiques et politiques actuelles : colonisation, dépendance, dette et réparations. L'histoire des luttes africaines en Europe et aux Amériques inscrit l'apport de Rodney au mouvements Black Power et Rastafari, ainsi que sa fascination pour les révolutions (Cuba, Haïti. . . ), dans une généalogie du panafricanisme inspiré de Marcus Garvey. Élevé en Tanzanie à l'école marxiste des « intellectuels de la guérilla» (Babu, Cabral, Fanon, Che Guevara, CLR James. . . ) et des mouvements de libération, Rodney défendit un panafricanisme anti-impérialiste avant de mener, en Guyana, une praxis révolutionnaire fondée sur le glissement de la « lutte des races » vers une lutte des classes, en soutenant les travailleurs confrontés à un régime autoritaire. La thèse conclut à la nécessité de porter les sciences humaines et sociales au cœur des luttes politiques et des relations postcoloniales<br>Based on raw datas and fieldworks (Guyana, Tanzania, Trinidad, UK, USA. . . ), this study is about the life and works of the historian Walter Rodney (l942-l980). Historical analysis prevails, linked with anthropology, economies and political philosophy. As the analysis goes on through parallel stories, the pan-African issues become increasingly accurate through several prospects: that of Rodney as an engaged historian, as an activist, and that of the author, who tries to scan the contemporary relevance of Rodney's ideas. The introduction refers to some theses, classical or rebel, that explain the Pan-African history. After recalling the violent circumstances under which Rodney died, the examining of his theses about slave trade, capitalism and development, introduce to current political and intellectual debated issues: colonialism, dependency, debt and reparations. His personal contribution to Black Power and Rastafari movements, his fascination with revolutionary struggles (Cuba, Haili. . . ), and his knowledge of African struggles in Europe and Americas inscribe Rodney in the genealogy of Marcus Garvey's inspired Pan-Africanism. Involved with the « intellectual guerillas » of the Tanzania marxist school (Babu, Cabral, Fanon, Guevara, CLR James. . . ) and the national liberation movements, Rodney stood for an anti-imperialist Pan-Africanism, before leading in Guyana a revolutionary praxis based on the shift from « race struggle » toward a class struggle, through its entire support for workers struggling against an authoritarian regime. The thesis concludes with the need to place humanities and social sciences in the heart of political struggles and postcolonial relations
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OBENGA, JOSEPH THEOP. "Ensemble de travaux qui couvrent la methodologie de l'histoire africaine (8 titres) - l'antiquite africaine, notamment les liens culturels et linguistique entre l'egypte ancienne et le reste de l'afrique noire (10 titres) - les bantu." Montpellier 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986MON30034.
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La soutenance a porte sur dossier, c'est-a-dire sur un ensemble de travaux de 1710 pages qui montrent l'unite de l'oeuvre, centree sur la methodologie de l'histoire africaine, l'antiquite africaine, l'egypte et le lien linguistique, la linguistique historique, la tradition orale et l'histoire de l'afrique centrale avec des sujets specifiques comme les teke, les vili, les mbochi et les kongo. Le domaine bantu : langues, peuples et civilisations. Epistemologie historique dans le cadre de la recente historique dans le cadre de la recentre historigraphie africaine. L'effort global tend vers la systematisation de l'histoire anthropologique ou culturelle qui n'est pas encore realisee en afrique, et l'histoire portee par l'oral subit un traitement chronologique, afin d'inserer l'histoire portee par l'oralite dans le temps universel. On voudrait appliquer a l'afrique les methodes interdisciplinaires de la nouvelle histoire avec reflexion consequente. Il s'agit de tenter de fonder l'histoire africaine comme un possible de l'histoire humaine parmi tant d'autres possibles historiques. Le travail historique en afrique reste par consequent, avant tout, un labeur d'ordre epistemologique. Or, en afrique noire, les historiens affichent jusqu'ici une certaine timidite a se hisser au niveau d'une conceptualisation generale de l'histoire humaine. D'autre part, au niveau des origines et des appartenances genetiques des civilisations noires du continent africain, une nouvelle theorisation conceptuelle. .<br>The thesis including all our previous works of about 1710 pages is focused on african historical methodology, african antiquity, ancient egypt, central africa with specific items such as teke, vili, mbochi and kongo. Bantu area is also covered by studying languages, peoples and civilisations. A particular accent is made on the historical epistemology in the context of the actual african historiography. So, the global effort leads to a systematic conceptualisation of african cultral history which is not yet carried out in africa. Being just a part of mankind history, african history must indeed receive a scientific treatment, so that the oral aspect of african history becomes a subject of interest in the general framework of mankind history. The problem of the africanity of ancient egypt cannot be dodged, and the socalled "chamito semitic" or "afro-asiatic" family is a false one because without any concrete, scientific basis. The book africa in antiquity is still present when discussing the africanity of ancient egypt. We have attempt to make a new classification of ancient egyptian language which belongs as a matter of fact to negroafrican family. It is steadly question of history since comparative linguistic is always history
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Pontzeele, Sophie. "Burundi 1972/Rwanda 1994 : l' "efficacité" dramatique d'une reconstruction idéologique du passé par la presse." Phd thesis, Université des Sciences et Technologie de Lille - Lille I, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00080905.
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Les représentations de l'histoire du Rwanda et du Burundi, construites durant l'époque coloniale, ont influencé de façon décisive l'évolution de ces deux pays après leur indépendance. La vulgate historique du « conflit séculaire » entre Hutu et Tutsi, réinvestie par les élites locales et transformée en axe majeur du combat politique, s'est matérialisée de façon paroxystique lors de deux génocides : en 1972 au Burundi et en 1994 au Rwanda. Les principaux quotidiens français et belges occultèrent presque le premier génocide dans la région des Grands Lacs : en 1972, ils se contentèrent de mobiliser les poncifs de la lutte tribale en guise d' « analyse ». Vingt ans plus tard, une grille de lecture particulière continue d'être appliquée aux crises africaines. La reconnaissance du génocide des Rwandais tutsi n'a pas empêché, en outre, que prévale un mode de traitement « national » de l'information de la part des organes de presse belges et français.
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Gebhard, Wolfgang Robert Leo. "Black perceptions of South African history." Diss., 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24554.
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Pawel, Rebecca Catherine. "'Native, Yet Foreign': Spain in the African American Imagination." Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-khcb-xp93.
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My dissertation argues that Spain was as important to the development of African American literary consciousness as more studied locales such as Paris, Harlem, or Chicago. I argue that a literary idea of Spain gave African American writers a conceptual space for thinking about race in the past and the future, and for considering the intersections between race and religion. Drawing on the work of Arthur Schomburg, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Peterson, and Richard Wright, I contend that mid-twentieth century African American writers adapted a broader trend of Anglophone historiography that viewed Spain as a quintessentially “medieval” country (feudal, agrarian, and Catholic), set in opposition to the essentially “modern” United States (democratic, industrial, and Protestant). This historiography appropriated Spanish history to position Spain as the physical site of the pre-modern history of the United States, creating what I call “geographic temporality,” where a physical space is associated with a specific time period.
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Schneider, Rosa Elizabeth. "Race and Performative Historiography in the American Theatre, 1991-2014." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-xst3-w380.
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The history play is among the United States' oldest theatrical forms, and since its inception the genre has been used to represent and interrogate questions of identity and citizenship. Over the last quarter of the twentieth century until the present day, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of history plays that focus on questions of race and representation. “Race and Performative Historiography in American Theatre, 1991-2014” provides an explanation for this surge, revealing that theatre-makers (playwrights, directors, actors, and designers) drew on a long tradition of metatheatrical techniques on the American stage to make race central to their representation and creation of history. This dissertation scrutinizes some of these techniques, which I have termed Performative Historiography, as these techniques rewrite the way the audience understands our national and racial past. Combining extensive performance analysis, archival work, race theory, and American theatre history, "Race and Performative Historiography" expands the discipline's understanding of the role of the theater in representing America’s racial past, present, and future.
Each chapter of “Race and Performative Historiography” describes one of these techniques: sedimented time, historical synecdoche, and revision and repetition. These techniques provide theater-makers new ways of making vivid the past, exposing embedded power structures and forms of prejudice, as well thinking through and against national myths and structures of thought. Not only do these chapters describe these techniques, but they trace how these playwrights and directors give new life to older American theatrical forms: elements from minstrelsy (such as black, white, and red face), melodrama, and Living Newspapers of the Federal Theatre Project. Tracing the afterlives of these forms, I reveal how the juxtaposition of these older traditions with contemporary models of representation creates new theatre forms, and shows that even the most daring of the new American playwrights draw on a long and storied tradition. The history play has always been a genre that American playwrights have turned to define who we are, and where we have been, as a nation. "Race and Performative Historiography" dissects the means by which they make those claims.
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Ntwape, Lato Frank. "A historiography of South African Women's History from c. 1990, A survey of monographs, anthologies and journal articles." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51414.
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The essay is a historiography of South African Women's history. It seeks to take stock of how women's history has been accounted for since South Africa's political dispensation in 1990. It surveys monographs, anthologies and both local and international journals to determine if women's history has won its rightful place within the Historical Discipline. The essay traces this development by focusing on the volumes edited by Cherryl Walker (1990) and Nomboniso Gasa (2007), to determine if there has been improvement in the narratives within women's history. An attempt is taken to show that feminist and gender politics have had a great influence on women's history.<br>Dissertation (MHCS)--University of Pretoria, 2016.<br>Historical and Heritage Studies<br>Unrestricted
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Montgomery, John Henry. "Stained judgments, tarnished judges, tainted desire: The rhetoric of sexual orientation in South African judgments 1926-1999." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4677.
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This is a study of law and language; in particular an investigation into the language of judgments. The focus is on judgments as texts authored by judges. The main thinkers chosen as the theoretical basis are not experts in law – Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin, Norman Fairclough and Hayden White, for example. The reason for this choice is to consider the language of law from insights outside of law. Topics such as rhetoric, narrative, critical discourse analysis, intertextuality, interpretive communities, the monologic voice, oppositional reading, and power relations are seldom found in mainstream legal literature.
The position taken is that judgments are texts which are no more privileged (simply because they are legal texts) than any others that a society creates. However, judgments are viewed by some as being special societal texts, coated with a patina of mystique because they are dealing with inviolate legal principles. The patina is removed enough to suggest that judges use various linguistic processes to shape their judgments in ways no different from other authors, notwithstanding that they are writing about ‘the law’. Judges are rhetoricians who use rhetoric to shape the facts, choose the most expedient legal principle, and incorporate views of society expedient to their opinion.
The thrust of this study is to locate rhetoric at work within a specific sphere. The corpus consists of forty-four cases over a seventy-five year period dealing with sexual orientation. This area of law was chosen for a number of reasons. It is self-contained and lends itself to detailed examination. The topic is emotive which means more rhetorical techniques are at play than in a fairly technical area of law. There have been significant changes in the way sexual orientation has been treated in law over the years. It is interesting to trace how rhetoric facilitated that change. Lastly, we see how a judicial hegemony deals with an apolitical, splintered minority.
Any categorical conclusions are impossible in an exploration of this kind. The findings, however, indicate that judges are not as restricted as is generally considered and that their judgments are shaped by employing linguistic techniques available to writers of both fact and fiction. The intention is to provide a fresh way of reading judgments, where observations gleaned in one area can be applied to other areas of law.
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Oduntan, Oluwatoyin Babatunde. "ELITE IDENTITY AND POWER: A STUDY OF SOCIAL CHANGE AND LEADERSHIP AMONG THE EGBA OF WESTERN NIGERIA 1860-1950." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13121.
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By separating the local from the global, extant historiography fails to capture a total sense of how Africans engaged with change in the 19th and 20th centuries. Existing approaches are Eurocentric in assuming that global forces like colonialism, racism, nationalism and capitalism were the only issues that Africans confronted and thought about. A more complete history of social change is one which integrates local concerns and ideas, expressed in local languages and cosmologies, with Atlantic discourses. The history of Abeokuta in Western Nigeria had been written in a modernization model which interprets the Egba past as how a modern missionary-created elite tried to transform the society from a traditional one. By focusing on elite discourses in a wider scope than the modernization premise, a more complex history emerges in which European influence and colonial power were only part of many forces and resources which the Egba struggled over, modulated and coped with. Power in 19th century Abeokuta was invented by the construction of a national identity, history and traditions to legitimize a central monarchy. The interests of ruling elites converged with those of colonial power towards consolidating these innovations and political centralization. However, other displaced elites always contested such constructions. The crises and violence of the early 20th century were therefore not simply anti-colonial resistance. They were complicated expressions of political dissent against local, colonial and global forces of domination, and reactions to socio-economic challenges. Public health discourse reveals that the Egba did not conceive of European medicine as a dichotomous binary to local medical practices. Rather, it represented an addition of choices to a corpus of medical options. Similarly, Atlantic ideas like democracy and modernization were reduced to local understanding such that they correlated to local knowledge. Modernity for the Egba was therefore not about becoming like Europe; but about pursuing life‘s best-options in the variety of free and forceful influences. Egba society was shaped in the multiple struggles among elites advancing various claims and deploying instruments of power. This history transcends the colonial and renders Africans much more fully as actors in the making of their lives and society.
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Starfield, Jane. "Dr S. Modiri Molema (1891-1965) : The making of an historian." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5872.
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This thesis finds that Dr SM Molema made a considerable contribution to the construction of the
history of black people in South Africa, and was the first African historian to do so. Yet, he and other
African writers were marginalised from the mainstream twentieth-century canons of South African
history. Therefore, the thesis investigates the reasons for which Dr Molema (a medical doctor) became
an historian and an ethnographer in 1920, and explores the nature of his critical engagement with the
ways in which these disciplines represented black people. To understand the controversial treatment of
black historical writers, this study appraises South African historiography and its tendency to construct
debates about black people, while rendering black writers marginal to such debates.
Further, the thesis explores the generic complexity of Molema’s work and finds he wrote in a hybrid
genre, autoethnography. This complexity may have contributed to the many misreadings of his work.
This study outlines the generic specificity and implications of autoethnography and finds that, like
autobiography, autoethnography has been one of the genres of the Self (of personal testimony) that,
under colonialism and apartheid, many black writers employed in providing corrective versions of
mainstream versions of South African history. Autoethnography enabled Molema to represent his own
life, but — more importantly — that of his community (the Rolong boo RaTshidi of Mafikeng) as a
form of cultural translation for readers at home and abroad.
Methodologically, the thesis understands that Molema’s own family history played a large part in
motivating him to write history. In order to explore this relationship between the experience of history
and its representation, the thesis has a dual structure: the first four chapters present biographical studies
of three generations of the Molema family: Chief Molema, the founder of Mafikeng, his son Chief Silas
Thelesho Molema, and Silas’ son, Modiri Molema, the historian and ethnographer. Chapters Five and
Six present an exposition and critique of his first work, The Bantu Past and Present. Dr Molema’s
biographies of Chiefs Moroka and Montshiwa are used as ancillary texts.