Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. Lang,
c2010.
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| Series: | Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Memory and the construction of identities. South Asian diaspora in Africa: collective and individual memory in Fatima Meer's and Sita Gandhi's texts / Jaspal Kaur Singh
- Revisiting the past: memory and identity in Elleke Boehmer's Bloodlines and Zoë Wicomb's David's story and Playing in the light / Fiona McCann
- Truth, reconciliation, resistance and reconstruction. Lyric monsters: the humanizing process of lyric language in Antjie Krog's Country of my skull / Okla Elliot
- Reconstruction and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Denise Handlarski
- Transcending apartheid: empathy and the search for redemption / Imke Brust
- Damaged narratives, silenced voices and race. Mut(e)ilations: the loss of voice and the voice of loss: memory, reconstruction and reconciliation in South African literature / Deborah Donig
- Secrets and lies: trauma, resistance and reconciliation postponed in Zoë Wicombs David's story / Jane Poyner
- Driving the devil into the ground: settler myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley / John Highfield
- Trauma, confession and autobiographies. Transmogrifying the traumatic into the democratic ideal in autobiographical cultural memory: Nelson Mandela's The long walk to freedom / Mike Kgomotso Masemola
- White lies, white truth: confession and childhood in white women's narratives / Georgina Horrell
- Reconciling citizenship, AIDs, and gayness in post-apartheid South Africa / John C. Hawley.