• DOI:10.2979/TRANSITION.116.130
Corpus ID: 154241514

Nelson Mandela’s Two Bodies

@article{Nelson2014NelsonMT,
  title={Nelson Mandela’s Two Bodies},
  author={Steven Nelson},
  journal={Transition},
  year={2014},
  volume={116},
  pages={130 - 142}
}

Steven Nelson

Published 2014

Economics

Transition

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Addressing the ubiquity of images of Nelson Mandela, art historian Steven Nelson suggests that these pictures allow the viewer to enter into a space of hope and reconciliation for which Mandela has come to stand, even as they risk obscuring our view of the real Mandela