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Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction

Second Edition

Prof Elleke Boehmer

28 September 2023

ISBN: 9780192893444

224 pages
Paperback
174x111mm

Very Short Introductions

Price: £8.99

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

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

  • Focuses on how the view of Mandela as an 'icon' has had a shaping influence on studies of Mandela
  • Introduces humanist and decolonial perspectives on Mandela and asks what the costs of his special charisma were for his country
  • Weaves together both international and national perspectives on Mandela, looking at how he appeared as a citizen and politician to his countrymen and women, and at how he at the same time presided as a towering mythic figure on the international stage
  • Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide

New to this edition

  • This second edition reviews the earlier symbolic reading and reconsiders controversial aspects of Mandela's legacy in its light

About the Author(s)

Prof Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, FRSL FRHistS

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 symbol
    2:Scripting a life: the early years
    3:Growth of a national icon: later years
    4:Influences and interactions
    5:Sophiatown sophisticate
    6:Masculine performer
    7:Spectres in the prison garden
    8:Mandela's legacy

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