Returning Images: Mandela, Marikana and the Rugged Road to the Future

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  • Annalisa Oboe Università degli Studi di Padova

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https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/4465

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Mandela

Abstract

It is only appropriate to begin with his face. The intense, rainbow-colored Mandela portrait that opens this issue is the work of a young Indonesian digital artist, Ihsanulhakim, who captures a serious, reflective and aged version of the South African leader. The writing on the top left of the image is a quote from Mandela’s famous reflection on death translated into Indonesian: “Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace”.[1]


[1] RIP Nelson Mandela © Muhammad Ihsanulhakim. I wish to thank the artist for generously allowing Altre Modernità to reproduce his work. The quote is from an interview for the documentary “Mandela”, 1994, in Nelson Mandela by Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation).

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Biografia autore

Annalisa Oboe, Università degli Studi di Padova

Annalisa Oboe is Professor of English and postcolonial literature in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padua, where she directs the humanities doctoral program. Her research focuses on postcolonial theory and cultures, South African and Black Atlantic literatures, and British colonial and contemporary literature. Among her publications are Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (ed. with S. Bassi, Routledge, 2011); Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections (ed. with A. Scacchi, Routledge, 2008); Mongrel Signatures. Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo (Rodopi, 2003); Fiction, History and Nation in South Africa (Supernova, 1994). She is currently coordinating the research project “From the European South: postcolonial studies in Italy” (www.postcolonialitalia.it).

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Pubblicato

2014-11-23

Come citare

Oboe, Annalisa. 2014. «Returning Images: Mandela, Marikana and the Rugged Road to the Future». Altre Modernità, n. 12 (novembre):1-14. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/4465.

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N. 12 (2014): MANDELA

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Saggi Ensayos Essais Essays