Derek Hook, Leswin Laubscher, Robert Sobukwe

Broschiertes Buch

Darkest Before Dawn

Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Beschreibung

A definitive collection of Robert Sobukweâ s political writings, speeches, unpublished court testimonies, and interviews, complete with a biographical narrative by the editors that demonstrates the many challenges Sobukwe faced and his continued political resolve in the post-prison years of his life.

Autor

Derek Hook (Author) Derek Hook is a professor in Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA and an extraordinary professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is one of the editors of the Palgrave Lacan Series and also of the four-volume Reading Lacan's Écrits (2018). Along with Sheldon George he edited the collection Lacan on Race (2021), and along with Leswin Laubscher and Miraj Desai he edited Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology (2022). He is also the editor of a first volume of Sobukwe letters, Lie on Your Wounds: The prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (2019). Leswin Laubscher (Author) Leswin Laubscher is an associate professor in the Clinical Psychology department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA. He is currently an extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Amongst others he is the co-editor of Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology (2022). Robert Sobukwe (Author) Robert Sobukwe founded the Pan Africanist Congress in 1959 and was its president. He was imprisoned on Robben Island from 1960-1969, mostly in solitary confinement, and was considered such a threat by the government that its parliament enacted the ‘Sobukwe clause’, which authorised the arbitrary extension of his imprisonment. After his release in 1969, he lived in Kimberley with family under house arrest. He died in 1978 from lung cancer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781776148561
• ISBN-10: 1776148568
• Artikelnr.: 70552439