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A Blow to the Head: A History of Violence

Andries du Toit

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Description:One summer morning, Cape Town academic Andries Du Toit remonstrates mildly with a white man who is being rude to a black waitress in the cafeteria of his local health club. A few weeks later he finds himself sprawled on his back with a fractured cheekbone, blood pooling in the back of his throat, the target of payback from one of the city’s most feared gangsters. What just happened? Following the threads that radiate out from his personal experience of violence, Du Toit traces the events and the decisions that brought him to that fateful confrontation. What ensues is a journey of discovery that forces him to confront his own place and complicity in a country still traumatised by racial violence – and to ask/explore what is required by the work of healing and repair.-----------"Vividly and poignantly, Andries du Toit reveals, probes and picks at the scars of violence and racism in South Africa that refuse to heal. That cannot heal unless confronted with words, that cannot be confronted with words without opening new wounds and reopening old ones. Scars whose provenance exceeds the vocabularies we have for understanding violence. This is a work that is at once profoundly existential and immediately pragmatic, and it is a tale for South Africa and for the world. Pointing to the urgent need for repair in a world out of joint, du Toit does not offer platitudes, false hope, or easy solace. Instead, he offers honesty. I am grateful for this book and humbled by it." Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at University of Chicago).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Blow to the Head: A History of Violence. To get started finding A Blow to the Head: A History of Violence, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: One summer morning, Cape Town academic Andries Du Toit remonstrates mildly with a white man who is being rude to a black waitress in the cafeteria of his local health club. A few weeks later he finds himself sprawled on his back with a fractured cheekbone, blood pooling in the back of his throat, the target of payback from one of the city’s most feared gangsters. What just happened? Following the threads that radiate out from his personal experience of violence, Du Toit traces the events and the decisions that brought him to that fateful confrontation. What ensues is a journey of discovery that forces him to confront his own place and complicity in a country still traumatised by racial violence – and to ask/explore what is required by the work of healing and repair.-----------"Vividly and poignantly, Andries du Toit reveals, probes and picks at the scars of violence and racism in South Africa that refuse to heal. That cannot heal unless confronted with words, that cannot be confronted with words without opening new wounds and reopening old ones. Scars whose provenance exceeds the vocabularies we have for understanding violence. This is a work that is at once profoundly existential and immediately pragmatic, and it is a tale for South Africa and for the world. Pointing to the urgent need for repair in a world out of joint, du Toit does not offer platitudes, false hope, or easy solace. Instead, he offers honesty. I am grateful for this book and humbled by it." Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences at University of Chicago).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Blow to the Head: A History of Violence. To get started finding A Blow to the Head: A History of Violence, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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