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Introduction
Abebe Zegeye and Robert Kriger

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Language Policy of the New South Africa
Neville Alexander and Kathleen Heugh

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Culture, Media and the Intellectual Climate: Apartheid and Beyond
Arnold Shepperson and Keyan G. Tomaselli

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Unspeaking the Centre: Emergent Trends in South African Theatre in 1990's
Mark Fleishman

59

Nation-Building, Social Identity and Television in a Changing Media Landscape
Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

85

Literary Studies in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Johannes A. Smit and Johan van Wyk

107

Five Afrikaner Texts and the Rehabilitation of Whiteness
Zoë Wicomb

127

Rural Art and Rural Resistance: The Rise of a Wall Decorating Tradition in Rural Southern Africa
Franco Frescura

151

Affirming Heroes in the Struggle Against Colonial Rule
Thembeka Mufamadi

171

The Autobiography of a Movement: Trade Unions in KwaZulu-Natal 1970s-1990s
Ari Sitas

183

The Burden of the Present
Abebe Zegeye and Ian Liebenberg

207

The South African International Cultural Communication: A View from the Outside
Biserka Cvjeticanin

215

Contributors

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