"Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of 'mythology' from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African Diaspora. Temple comprehensively…
This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist--the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence. It proposes that zeitgeist, as it was discussed by contemporaries of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars in Germany and Britain, contributed to th…
This book investigates the emergence of the modern concept of zeitgeist--the notion of a pervasive contemporary coherence. It proposes that zeitgeist, as it was discussed by contemporaries of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars in Germany and Britain, contributed to th…
Crystal palaces and railway stations, greenhouses and arcades, church windows and shop frontages, wine glasses and lamp shades: from the monumental to the minuscule, glass became increasingly pervasive in nineteenth-century France. Yet as the bombshells and fires of the Année Te…
South Africa's past is contested. Antagonists in these 'memory wars' construct histories that validate their actions and discredit those of their erstwhile enemies. [This book] provides a timely study of the battle waged by apologists for the South African Defence Force (SADF) a…