Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing
By: edited by Jaspal K. Singh, Rajendra Chetty
Series: Postcolonial studies -- v. 7
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433107009
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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; title: Truth, reconciliation, resistance and reconstruction. Lyric monsters: the humanizing process of lyric language in Antjie Krog's Country of my skull / Okla Elliot; title: Reconstruction and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Denise Handlarski; title: Transcending apartheid: empathy and the search for redemption / Imke Brust; title: 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; title: Secrets and lies: trauma, resistance and reconciliation postponed in Zoë Wicombs David's story / Jane Poyner; title: Driving the devil into the ground: settler myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley / John Highfield; title: 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; title: White lies, white truth: confession and childhood in white women's narratives / Georgina Horrell; title: Reconciling citizenship, AIDs, and gayness in post-apartheid South Africa / John C. Hawley.