- Title
- Arts, apartheid struggles and cultural movements
- Creator
- Tomaselli, K. G.
- Subject
- Apartheid, Resistance, Arts
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/407089
- Identifier
- uj:34252
- Identifier
- Citation: Tomaselli, K.G. 2019: Arts, apartheid struggles and cultural movements.
- Description
- Abstract: This study i) briefly sketches some anti-apartheid arts initiatives of the 1980s; ii) examines the anti-apartheid academic common sense that assumed that ‘real struggle’ could occur only within the labour movement; while iii) both are discussed in relation to early Afrikaner conservative cultural theory. The role of social theory within these sites of resistance is discussed. The article offers a lived methodology by including evocative observations from some social actors who participated in, and contributed to anti-apartheid art, drama and writing. The objective is to draw out debates on struggle rather than to offer a discussion of arts initiatives themselves. These are examined in terms of Albie Sachs’ pleas for discussion beyond the weaponisation of art, one that restores the humanity robbed by apartheid.
- Language
- English
- Rights
- @2019, authors
- Full Text
- Hits: 782
- Visitors: 752
- Downloads: 52
Collections
Journal articles
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | SOURCE1 | 14909_Manuscript ARTT 2019.pdf | 245 KB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |