Relocations
Reading Culture in South Africa
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Lansdowne, Cape Town, South Africa
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A public lecture series which became a celebrated part of Cape Town’s cultural landscape, demonstrating current intellectual and creative thinking in South Africa, was the inspiration for this book. The lectures, by world-renowned artists, writers and thinkers, gave audiences a chance to engage with transformative texts and questions, to hear thought leaders speak on the ideas, the books, the art, and the films that matter to them and to us.
A selection of these lectures has been brought together here in the form of essays, for the benefit of a wider readership, with an edgy, contemporary design which plays with words. The authors range from novelists Andre Brink and Imraan Coovadia (one of the collection’s editors), to poets Gabeba Baderoon and Rustum Kozain, to artist William Kentridge and social activist Zackie Achmat. The topics are as wide as Don Quixote, Marx and Lincoln, trout fishing, Hamlet, the 19th-century Russian writer Gogol and Nabokov’s novel Lolita.
Today’s readers are increasingly interested in finding new ways to understand and live with great texts and the world of ideas. These essays challenge the ways in which the classics are read and taught.
