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Culture and Work
A talk about the Encyclopedia of African Culture and History. David Smith is a principal editor of the recently published five-volume set.
Julius Wilson talks about his most recent book, When Work Disappears.
South African Politics, Society, and Race Relations
Following a 1980 trip to South Africa where he lectured to law students and faculty, George Christie discusses South African society, law, politics, and race relations. He argues that because of a lack of social consensus among the powerful minority of white Afrikaners and the other racial and political groups, prospects for the future of South Africa, particularly with regard to Apartheid, are dim. He is also pessimistic about the inevitability of racial violence.
Christie was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center (1980-81) and professor of law at Duke University.
John Agresto, on the staff of the National Humanities Center, joins Wayne Pond for this interview. This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
Fiction of Joseph Conrad
Ian Watt discusses the panoramic and complicated development of modern fiction by situating the modern novel in general, and the fiction of Joseph Conrad in particular, within a nexus of biographical and historical perspectives.
At the time of this interview, Ian Watt was professor of humanities at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding and Conrad in the Nineteenth Century.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
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