Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction

by Elleke Boehmer

Overview

This second edition of Nelson Mandela VSI focuses on a far-reaching critical look at meanings of reconciliation and Mandela's ethic of reciprocity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192645555
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	09/12/2023
Series:	Very Short Introductions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Elleke Boehmer started her career lecturing in English and postcolonial literature at the Universities of Exeter and Leeds. In 2000 she moved to a chair in colonial and postcolonial literature at Nottingham Trent University and in 2004 and took up the Hildred Carlile chair in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2019 Boehmer was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK. She is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

1. Mandela: story and symbol2. Scripting a life: the early years3. Growth of a national icon: later years4. Influences and interactions5. Sophiatown sophisticate6. Masculine performer7. Spectres in the prison garden8. Mandela's legacy

Editorial Reviews

"An insightful and eminently engaging analysis from one of postcolonialism's leading scholars. This book sheds a fascinating new light on Mandela's compelling 'magic.'"—Naomi Wolf

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