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Rainbow fragments

Rainbow fragments he rainbow nation. Born April 27,1994. TBaptised by the dancing prelate, May 10. The distance between the gates of Victor Vester prison and the inauguration of Mandela as President makes the world of dif- ference. Princes and potentates of the world, as if directed by central casting, united in staging the new nation. The succession of limousines, the exotic costuming, the parade of power, arrived as a paradoxical shock. The dark corners of Pretoria's parochialism blazed in the international spotlights. Guns cracked between earth and heaven. david hallowes Military jets spilled the colours of the new nation across the sky. The people cheered, proclaiming, as the media would have it, that they were now Our guns, Our planes. RAINBO W Building the new nation as advertised on TV. FRAGMENTS As advertised on TV, building the new nation is a collaborative effort of all South Africans, a cornucopia in the making, bound ation of a nation... Unity is always effected by the logo map of the nation. by means of brutality.* A world of difference. The limits of the state are hatched within the international Gramsci claims Machiavelli as a "preco- relations of power, crosshatched in the com- cious Jacobin" http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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Rainbow fragments

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he rainbow nation. Born April 27,1994. TBaptised by the dancing prelate, May 10. The distance between the gates of Victor Vester prison and the inauguration of Mandela as President makes the world of dif- ference. Princes and potentates of the world, as if directed by central casting, united in staging the new nation. The succession of limousines, the exotic costuming, the parade of power, arrived as a paradoxical shock. The dark corners of Pretoria's parochialism blazed in the...
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Abstract

he rainbow nation. Born April 27,1994. TBaptised by the dancing prelate, May 10. The distance between the gates of Victor Vester prison and the inauguration of Mandela as President makes the world of dif- ference. Princes and potentates of the world, as if directed by central casting, united in staging the new nation. The succession of limousines, the exotic costuming, the parade of power, arrived as a paradoxical shock. The dark corners of Pretoria's parochialism blazed in the international spotlights. Guns cracked between earth and heaven. david hallowes Military jets spilled the colours of the new nation across the sky. The people cheered, proclaiming, as the media would have it, that they were now Our guns, Our planes. RAINBO W Building the new nation as advertised on TV. FRAGMENTS As advertised on TV, building the new nation is a collaborative effort of all South Africans, a cornucopia in the making, bound ation of a nation... Unity is always effected by the logo map of the nation. by means of brutality.* A world of difference. The limits of the state are hatched within the international Gramsci claims Machiavelli as a "preco- relations of power, crosshatched in the com- cious Jacobin"

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1997

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