Why did the apartheid’s endgame favor the African National Congress (ANC) over other contenders? This article advances a path dependence argument, hypothesizing Mandela’s 1962 trip across Africa as a “critical junc...Why did the apartheid’s endgame favor the African National Congress (ANC) over other contenders? This article advances a path dependence argument, hypothesizing Mandela’s 1962 trip across Africa as a “critical juncture” whose arc of counter-intuitive developments narrowed the ruling National Party’s bargaining options down to its worst enemy—Mandela’s ANC.展开更多
John Maxwell Coetzee is the winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and the winner of two Booker Prizes.Disgrace is one of his great works which depicts a series of disgraceful events between the white and the bl...John Maxwell Coetzee is the winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and the winner of two Booker Prizes.Disgrace is one of his great works which depicts a series of disgraceful events between the white and the black in post-apartheid South Africa.The novel is the epitome of analyzing the postcolonialism.The essay uses"cronus",a new concept adopted by Coetzee himself in the novel to analyze various kinds of cronus behavior in it.展开更多
文摘Why did the apartheid’s endgame favor the African National Congress (ANC) over other contenders? This article advances a path dependence argument, hypothesizing Mandela’s 1962 trip across Africa as a “critical juncture” whose arc of counter-intuitive developments narrowed the ruling National Party’s bargaining options down to its worst enemy—Mandela’s ANC.
文摘John Maxwell Coetzee is the winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and the winner of two Booker Prizes.Disgrace is one of his great works which depicts a series of disgraceful events between the white and the black in post-apartheid South Africa.The novel is the epitome of analyzing the postcolonialism.The essay uses"cronus",a new concept adopted by Coetzee himself in the novel to analyze various kinds of cronus behavior in it.
