Author: Rich, Paul B.
Title: Hope and Despair: English-Speaking Intellectuals and South African Politics 1898 - 1976
Description: London / New York, British Academic Press, (1993). orig.boards. 22x14cm, viii,269 pp, A label to rear cover.. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Conents: Science & White Supremacy; R.F.A. Hoernle & Liberal Idealism; Edgar Brookes & the "Lie in the Soul" of Segregation; Liberals, Radicals & the Politics of Black Consciousness; Liberal Realism in South African Fiction; Laurens van der Post: The Noble Savage & the Romantic Image of Africa; The Decline of the Idea of Civilization; Conclusion.

Keywords: African Political History, South Africa, Anglophone, English Literature, Laurens, van der Post, R.F.A. Hoernle, Edgar Brookes, Liberalism