- Title
- Guy Butler’s South Africanism: ‘Being present where you are’
- Title
- English Academy Lecture Guy Butler's South Africanism: ‘Being present where you are’
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- vital:7069
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007460
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2012.730182
- Description
- preprint
- Description
- A peer-reviewed lecture delivered at Rhodes University on the occasion of the presentation to Professor Wright of the English Academy's Gold Medal, 16 November 2011. Guy Butler (1918-2001) has been gone some ten years. This lecture sets out to illuminate the thinking behind his important role in South Africa's national life. The institutions he created continue to make vital cultural contributions in South Africa's efforts to make sense of its own complex historical make-up, working towards a happier, richer, and more equal future. However, despite what he achieved, there is little surety that today the rationale informing his massive effort to foster processes of artistic and cultural endeavour has been appreciated or accurately understood.
- Format
- 22 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English Academy Review, Wright, L.S.(2012) Guy Butler’s South Africanism: ‘Being present where you are’. English Academy Review v.29(2), pp. 102-117, English Academy Review volume 29 number 2 102 117 2012 1753-5360
- Rights
- Wright, Laurence
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the English Academy Review Self-archiving Policy
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