Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Complicity, the Intellectual, Apartheid

1. Two Colonial Precursors

2. The Intellectual and Apartheid

3. Apartheid and the Vernacular

4. Prison Writing

5. Black Consciousness

Conclusion: Don’t Forget to Tell Us What Happened to You Yourself . . .”

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

A theoretically informed study of five major pro- and anti-apartheid intellectuals, showing the inevitability of complex and compromised positions, and the impossibility of pure ones.

About the Author

Mark Sanders is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at Brandeis University.

Reviews

"Philosophically informed and linguistically sophisticated, Complicities is an important contribution to the intellectual history of modern South Africa."--J.M. Coetzee "[Complicities] has been one of the most challenging and stimulating books I have read in the past year."--Yvette Hutchison, King Alfred's College, Winchester in the Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 66 2004 "[C]reative... Complicities raises critically important ethical questions that all intellectuals must face and that are especially relevant and poignant in our troubled times."--Jackie Vieceli, Perspectives on Political Science "[A]n accessible and very subtle reflection on the responsibility of the intellectual in the face of oppression... [A] stimulating and deeply rewarding read."--Paul Muldoon, Australian Journal of Politics and History "[T]he richness of informed, detailed analysis on offer here deserves the close attention of anyone trying to understand the history of protest, collusion or submission by some of South Africa's most significant thinkers."--Dennis Walder, Journal of Southern African Studies "This combination of European and African philosophy and literature challenges the role and place of the intellectual and artist in society. South Africans have long seen complicity as contamination and resisted any association either with the word or people to whom it has been applicable. This book offers an alternative perspective whereby we can look at these discourses differently, with less anxiety. It has been one of the most challenging and stimulating books I have read in the past year."--Yvette Hutchison, African Studies Bulletin "[A] deeply satisfying book. The range and depth of research is assimilated into a style of writing that is neither tedious nor pompous, and the author shows himself in full command of his sources."--Rustum Kozain, H-Net (H-SAfrica) Mentioned in The Boston Globe in a short item about a conference. Also reviewed in Research in African Literatures and Postcolonial Studies. Listed in The Black Scholar, boundary 2, Africa Today and Journal of History of Ideas.