• Abbreviations-- List of Illustrations-- Foreword - Njabulo Ndebele-- Reproduction of Bessie Head's Foreword to Ravan Edition (1982)-- Poetic Tributes-- 'Lefatshe, nkometse' - SeTswana Poem with English translation 'Earth, Swallow Me' (Sabata-mpho Mokae)-- 'What is in a Name? In Memory of Sol T. Plaatje' (Violet Plaatje, 1933)-- 'Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T. Plaatje' (James M. Malebaloa, 1933) with English translation from SeTswana (Nhlanhla Maake)-- Introduction (Editors)--
• Chapter 1: Native Life in South Africa: Writing, Publication, Reception (Brian Willan)--
• Chapter 2: Modernist At Large: The Aesthetics of Native Life in South Africa (Bhekizizwe Peterson)--
• Chapter 3: The Print World of the Press and Native Life in South Africa (Peter Limb)--
• Chapter 4: Going Places - Native Life in South Africa and the Politics of Mobility (Janet Remmington)--
• Chapter 5: Native Life in South Africa and the World at War (Albert Grundlingh)--
• Chapter 6: African Intellectual History, Black Cosmopolitanism and Native Life in South Africa (Khwezi Mkhize)--
• Chapter 7: 'Native Lives' behind Native Life: Intellectual and Political Influences on the Early ANC and Democracy in South Africa (Andre Odendaal)--
• Chapter 8: Whose Past? Native Life in South Africa and Historical Writing (Christopher Saunders)--
• Chapter 9: Women and Society in Native Life in South Africa: Roles and Ruptures (Heather Hughes)--
• Chapter 10: African Progressivism, Land, and Law: Rereading Native Life in South Africa (Keith Breckenridge)--
• Chapter 11: Land Questions: On the Tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje (Jacob Dlamini)--
• Chapter 12: Revisiting the Landscapes of Native Life in South Africa: A Photo Essay (Sean O'Toole)-- A Contemporary Reimagining 'Ask Those You Meet along the Way' - A Short Story (Sabata-mpho Mokae)-- Notes on Contributors-- Plaatje Resources and Archives-- Bibliography-- Index.
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First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa's most talented early 20th-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje's pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the discriminatory1913 Natives Land Act. Native Life vividly narrates Plaatje's investigative journeying into South Africa's rural heartlands to report on the effects of the Act and his involvement in the deputation to the British imperial government. At the same time it tells the bigger story of the assault on black rights and opportunities in the newly consolidated Union of South Africa - and the resistance to it. Originally published in war-time London, but about South Africa and its place in the world, Native Life travelled far and wide, being distributed in the United States under the auspices of prominent African-American W E B Du Bois. South African editions were to follow only in the late apartheid period and beyond. The aim of this multi-authored volume is to shed new light on how and why Native Life came into being at a critical historical juncture, and to refl ect on how it can be read in relation to South Africa's heightened challenges today. Crucial areas that come under the spotlight in this collection include land, race, history, mobility, belonging, war, the press, law, literature, language, gender, politics, and the state.
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• Abbreviations-- List of Illustrations-- Foreword - Njabulo Ndebele-- Reproduction of Bessie Head's Foreword to Ravan Edition (1982)-- Poetic Tributes-- 'Lefatshe, nkometse' - SeTswana Poem with English translation 'Earth, Swallow Me' (Sabata-mpho Mokae)-- 'What is in a Name? In Memory of Sol T. Plaatje' (Violet Plaatje, 1933)-- 'Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T. Plaatje' (James M. Malebaloa, 1933) with English translation from SeTswana (Nhlanhla Maake)-- Introduction (Editors)--
• Chapter 1: Native Life in South Africa: Writing, Publication, Reception (Brian Willan)--
• Chapter 2: Modernist At Large: The Aesthetics of Native Life in South Africa (Bhekizizwe Peterson)--
• Chapter 3: The Print World of the Press and Native Life in South Africa (Peter Limb)--
• Chapter 4: Going Places - Native Life in South Africa and the Politics of Mobility (Janet Remmington)--
• Chapter 5: Native Life in South Africa and the World at War (Albert Grundlingh)--
• Chapter 6: African Intellectual History, Black Cosmopolitanism and Native Life in South Africa (Khwezi Mkhize)--
• Chapter 7: 'Native Lives' behind Native Life: Intellectual and Political Influences on the Early ANC and Democracy in South Africa (Andre Odendaal)--
• Chapter 8: Whose Past? Native Life in South Africa and Historical Writing (Christopher Saunders)--
• Chapter 9: Women and Society in Native Life in South Africa: Roles and Ruptures (Heather Hughes)--
• Chapter 10: African Progressivism, Land, and Law: Rereading Native Life in South Africa (Keith Breckenridge)--
• Chapter 11: Land Questions: On the Tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje (Jacob Dlamini)--
• Chapter 12: Revisiting the Landscapes of Native Life in South Africa: A Photo Essay (Sean O'Toole)-- A Contemporary Reimagining 'Ask Those You Meet along the Way' - A Short Story (Sabata-mpho Mokae)-- Notes on Contributors-- Plaatje Resources and Archives-- Bibliography-- Index.
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First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa's most talented early 20th-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje's pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the discriminatory1913 Natives Land Act. Native Life vividly narrates Plaatje's investigative journeying into South Africa's rural heartlands to report on the effects of the Act and his involvement in the deputation to the British imperial government. At the same time it tells the bigger story of the assault on black rights and opportunities in the newly consolidated Union of South Africa - and the resistance to it. Originally published in war-time London, but about South Africa and its place in the world, Native Life travelled far and wide, being distributed in the United States under the auspices of prominent African-American W E B Du Bois. South African editions were to follow only in the late apartheid period and beyond. The aim of this multi-authored volume is to shed new light on how and why Native Life came into being at a critical historical juncture, and to refl ect on how it can be read in relation to South Africa's heightened challenges today. Crucial areas that come under the spotlight in this collection include land, race, history, mobility, belonging, war, the press, law, literature, language, gender, politics, and the state.
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• List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Tablets and Archives
• Chapter 3: Four Case Studies
• Chapter 4: L'affaire d'Alahtum
• Chapter 5: Conditions of Tenure
• Chapter 6: Yarim-Lim's Domain
• Chapter 7: Conclusion
• Appendix 1: The Chronology of Level VII Alalah
• Appendix 2: Data Sets
• Appendix 3: Editions of Translated Level VII Texts References Index of Texts Index of Words Index of Proper Nouns.
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Legal texts recording the purchase or exchange of entire settlements are among the most important cuneiform tablets discovered at Old Babylonian/Middle Bronze Age (Level VII) Alalah. Following the Man of Yamhad is the first book-length study of these legal texts and the socio-economic practice that they document. The author explores the nature of the alienated settlements, the rights enjoyed by their owners, the underlying system of land tenure, and the larger political context in which the transactions occurred. The study is supported by extensive collations and up-to-date editions of relevant legal and administrative texts. Its conclusions will be of interest to anyone working on the history, society, and economy of the Bronze Age Near East.
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This book presents an informative examination of how the issue of women's land rights has been dealt with both in Indian literature, particularly Indian English fiction, and in Indian society. The human rights of women are a revolutionary notion that has opened the way for the definition, analysis, and articulation of women's experiences of widespread violence, degradation, discrimination, and marginality. Globally, women's land rights are becoming an area of increasing urgency and concern as discrimination against women over land, property and inheritance rights continues to keep them in a subordinate position even today. Land empowers, and equality in land rights is an indicator of women's economic empowerment and at the same time helps in poverty reduction. Many Indian writers, especially Indian English women novelists, have dealt with issues of land, dispossession, hunger and poverty in rural India in particular, but none have explicitly referred to women's land rights. For men, land is an essential element of their identity as 'provider', but for women it is a demand for recognition as a human being. However, women in India are rarely landowners, and in most Indian families women do not own any property in their own names. They are usually refused a share in the paternal property, although, according to the Indian Succession Act, 1925, everyone is entitled to equal inheritance. Unfortunately in India, law and society conspire to deny women their right to land ownership, although there have been several legal amendments to redress this gender inequality. This book deals with the gap that lies between women's land rights in India and the actual ownership of land.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY.

This book presents an informative examination of how the issue of women's land rights has been dealt with both in Indian literature, particularly Indian English fiction, and in Indian society. The human rights of women are a revolutionary notion that has opened the way for the definition, analysis, and articulation of women's experiences of widespread violence, degradation, discrimination, and marginality. Globally, women's land rights are becoming an area of increasing urgency and concern as discrimination against women over land, property and inheritance rights continues to keep them in a su.

• Contents: James H. Murphy/Heidi Hansson: The Irish Land War and its Fictions - Whitney Standlee: The 'Personal Element' and Emily Lawless's Hurrish (1886) - Derek Hand: George Moore's A Drama in Muslin: Art and the Middle-Classes - Faith Binckes/Kathryn Laing: 'Rival Attractions of the Season': Land-War Fiction, Christmas Annuals, and the Early Writing of Hannah Lynch - Julie Anne Stevens: The Irish Land War and Children's Literature: Padraic Colum's A Boy in Eirinn (1913) illustrated by Jack B. Yeats - Heidi Hansson: More than an Irish Problem: Authority and Universality in Land-War Writing - Anna Pilz: 'All Possessors of Property Tremble': Constructions of Landlord-Tenant Relations in Lady Gregory's Writings - Carla King: The Making of a Thoughtful Agitator: A Glimpse at Michael Davitt's Books - James H. Murphy: Mary Anne Sadlier on the Land War - Heidi Hansson/James H. Murphy: Introduction to Rosa Mulholland, Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy - Rosa Mulholland: Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy - Bibliography of Land-War Fiction 1879-1916.
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The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Divisions into 'us' and 'them' were convenient for political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of the land problem. This collection includes studies of canonical land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland's little-known play Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire further reading and research into the genre.
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• Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership
• The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property
• English property, Irish ownership and the British state
• The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
• At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.

Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel's preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested in the question of whether the Irish had rights to their land that could neither be bestowed nor taken away by England. In analyzing how these ideas were represented through a century of British and Irish fiction, journalism, and political theory, Maurer recovers the broad influence of Irish culture on the rest of the British Isles. By focusing on the ownership of land, "The Dispossessed State" challenges current scholarly tendencies to talk about Victorian property solely as a commodity. Maurer brings together canonical British novelists - Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Trollope, George Moore, and George Meredith-with the writings of major British political theorists-John Stuart Mill, Henry Sumner Maine, and William Gladstone - to illustrate Ireland's central role in the literary imagination of Britain in the nineteenth century. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies-property, the state, and national identity - and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies.
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• Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership
• The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property
• English property, Irish ownership and the British state
• The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
• At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.

"Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel's preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested in the question of whether the Irish had rights to their land that could neither be bestowed nor taken away by England. In analyzing how these ideas were represented through a century of British and Irish fiction, journalism, and political theory, Maurer recovers the broad influence of Irish culture on the rest of the British isles. By focusing on the ownership of land, The Dispossessed State challenges current scholarly tendencies to talk about Victorian property solely as a commodity. Maurer brings together canonical British novelists - Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Trollope, George Moore, and George Meredith - with the writings of major British political theorists - John Stuart Mill, Henry Sumner Maine, and William Gladstone - to illustrate Ireland's central role in the literary imagination of Britain in the nineteenth century. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies - property, the state, and national identity - and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies."--Project Muse.

In "Land and Blood, " his second novel, the Algerian-Kabyle writer Mouloud Feraoun offers a detailed portrait of life for Algerian Kabyles in the 1920s and 1930s through the story of a Kabyle-Berber man, Amer. Like many Kabyle men of the 1930s, Amer leaves his village to work in the coal mines of France. While in France, he inadvertently kills his own uncle in an accident that sets in motion forces of betrayal and revenge once he returns home. Unlike "The Poor Man's Son, " his first fictional work, "Land and Blood" is not autobiographical" but is rather the first in a series of novels Feraoun planned to write about immigrant ties between France and Algeria in the years leading up to World War II. Through Amer's story, Feraoun unveils what daily life was like in a poor village of colonial-era Algeria. Published in 1953, a year before the outbreak of the Algerian War, "Land and Blood" provides a fascinating account of Muslim, Berber-Arab social, cultural, and religious practices of rural Algeria in the pre-independence era.
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In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical - such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations. Land and Book places a variety of texts - including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests.
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• Introduction: The Terms of Possession
• 1 The most Solemn Instrument
• 2 Storied Land
• 3 Tenure in Translation
• 4 The Anglo-Saxon chronicle as Dynastic Landbook
• 5 Poetic Possession
• Conclusion: The Question of Limits.

In this original and innovative study, Scott T. Smith traces the intersections between land tenure and literature in Anglo-Saxon England. Smith aptly demonstrates that as land became property through the operations of writing, it came to assume a complex range of conceptual values that Anglo-Saxons could use to engage a number of vital cultural concerns beyond just the legal and practical - such as political dominion, salvation, sanctity, status, and social and spiritual obligations. Land and Book places a variety of texts - including charters, dispute records, heroic poetry, homilies, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - in a dynamic conversation with the procedures and documents of land tenure, showing how its social practice led to innovation across written genres in both Latin and Old English. Through this, Smith provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of literary, legal, and historical interests.
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John Clare (1793-1864) was born at a time of great social upheaval, just months after the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of war with France which was to last till the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. He also lived through the upheavals of the land enclosure movement and agricultural revolution which changed the face of the countryside and the way of life in rural England. His father was a farm worker who managed to pay for his son's schooling, though this was cut short as conditions worsened, but at least Clare had by then learnt to read and write so he could continue his own education, reading whatever books he could lay his hands on. At the age of sixteen he witnessed the social dislocation caused by the local enclosure Act and observed how the landscape was gradually transformed. Drawing on Clare's writing, this extensively researched study gives the modern reader an appreciation of the divisive effects of these policies. Structured chronologically, this exploration of John Clare's life highlights the socio-economic and environmental aspects of his observations and includes his reports on an insidious revolution taking place in the English countryside. Parliament, dominated by landowners, authorised the enclosure of large tracts of common land by private acts without considering the effect on those who had enjoyed rights of use and pasturage for centuries. Land enclosures, and the improved agricultural techniques which this permitted, was important in increasing food production at a time when the population of England was growing rapidly. While additional work was initially provided for agricultural labourers in the fencing and walling needed, this was temporary. The introduction of new, labour-saving machinery further reduced the opportunities for work. Insufficient attention, the author argues, has been given to the consequences. Those driven out of their homes in the country were left with no option but to migrate to the towns and sell their labour to whoever would pay for it. In effect, land enclosure created a market in land; landlessness created a market in labour. These are the foundations of our modern market economy. The author asserts that the harshness of the early years of the industrial revolution were the product of land enclosure which the welfare state has to some extent mitigated, although at the cost of creating a dependency culture in contrast to the sturdy independence of Clare's parents' generation of farm workers.
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• Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements ; INTRODUCTION ; YOUTH: 1793 to 1820 ; FAME BUT NOT MUCH FORTUNE: 1820 to 1832 ; 'FLITTING': 1832 to 1841 ; ASYLUM: 1841 to 1864 ; REFLECTIONS ; Bibliography.

John Clare (1793-1864) was born at a time of great social upheaval, just months after the beheading of Louis XVI and the outbreak of war with France which was to last till the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. He also lived through the upheavals of the land enclosure movement and agricultural revolution which changed the face of the countryside and the way of life in rural England. His father was a farm worker who managed to pay for his son's schooling, though this was cut short as conditions worsened, but at least Clare had by then learnt to read and write so he could continue his own education, reading whatever books he could lay his hands on. At the age of sixteen he witnessed the social dislocation caused by the local enclosure Act and observed how the landscape was gradually transformed. Drawing on Clare's writing, this extensively researched study gives the modern reader an appreciation of the divisive effects of these policies. Structured chronologically, this exploration of John Clare's life highlights the socio-economic and environmental aspects of his observations and includes his reports on an insidious revolution taking place in the English countryside. Parliament, dominated by landowners, authorised the enclosure of large tracts of common land by private acts without considering the effect on those who had enjoyed rights of use and pasturage for centuries. Land enclosures, and the improved agricultural techniques which this permitted, was important in increasing food production at a time when the population of England was growing rapidly. While additional work was initially provided for agricultural labourers in the fencing and walling needed, this was temporary. The introduction of new, labour-saving machinery further reduced the opportunities for work. Insufficient attention, the author argues, has been given to the consequences. Those driven out of their homes in the country were left with no option but to migrate to the towns and sell their labour to whoever would pay for it. In effect, land enclosure created a market in land; landlessness created a market in labour. These are the foundations of our modern market economy. The author asserts that the harshness of the early years of the industrial revolution were the product of land enclosure which the welfare state has to some extent mitigated, although at the cost of creating a dependency culture in contrast to the sturdy independence of Clare's parents' generation of farm workers.
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