A theoretically informed study of five major pro- and anti-apartheid intellectuals, showing the inevitability of complex and compromised positions, and the impossibility of pure ones.

Mark Sanders is Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at Brandeis University.

Preface
Introduction: Complicity, the Intellectual, Apartheid
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1. Two Colonial Precursors
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2. The Intellectual and Apartheid
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3. Apartheid and the Vernacular
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4. Prison Writing
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5. Black Consciousness
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Conclusion: Don’t Forget to Tell Us What Happened to You Yourself . . .”
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Notes
Bibliography
Index