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urn:uuid:8772534b-80cf-4b50-b65b-3d3f457050c9 03 15 9781928502319 00 EB E107 10 01 01 (u)Mzantsi Classics Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa 1 B01 Samantha Masters 2 B01 Imkhita Nzungu 3 B01 Grant Parker 01 eng 00 274 03 10 SOC008010 01 06 03 00 <p>How does (u)Mzantsi classics (of southern Africa) look in an era of profound change, whether violent or otherwise? What are its future prospects? Contributors focus on pedagogies, historical consciousness, the creative arts and popular culture.</p><p>The volume, in its overall shape, responds to the idea of dialogue – in both the Greek form associated with Plato’s rendition of Socrates’ wisdom and in the African concept of ubuntu. Here are dialogues between scholars, both emerging and established, as well as students – some of whom were directly impacted by the Fallist protests.</p><p>Rather than offering an apologia for classics, these dialogues engage with pressing questions of relevance, identity, change, the canon, and the dynamics of decolonisation and potential recolonisation. The goal is to interrogate classics – the ways it has been taught, studied, perceived, transformed and even lived – from many points of view.</p> 04 00 1. Nothing about us? Reflections on classics in southern Africa – Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu, Grant Parker First dialogue: On baggage 2. Classical imagery and policing the African body – Ian Glenn 3. Classics and colonial administration in Southern Rhodesia – Obert Mlambo and John Douglas McClymont Second dialogue: On intersecting identities 4. Classics for the third millennium: African options after The Fall – Jo-Marie Claassen Third dialogue: On classics and the canon 5. The liberatory potential of Latin studies: Stellenbosch University’s Latin Project – Reshard Kolabhai and Shani Viljoen 6. Responses to crisis: Cicero in Zimbabwe – Madhlozi Moyo 7. Rethinking the commemorative landscape in South Africa after The Fall: A pedagogical case study – Samantha Masters Fourth dialogue: From reception to re-imagination 8. African port cities and the classics – Carla Bocchetti 9. Wilder than Polyphemus’: Towards a tragic poetics of the post-colonial consumption of symbols – David van Schoor 10. Conclusion: Ovid in the time of statues – Grant Parker African Minds 01 African Minds 04 01 20221010 02 WORLD 06 15 9781928502302 06 15 9781928502319 06 15 9781928502326 WORLD 09 African Minds 20 01