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Title:

Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing / Jaspal K. Singh & Rajendra Chetty, editors.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

vi, 205 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

South African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Literature and society--South Africa--History--20th century.
Literature and society--South Africa--History--21st century.
Politics and literature--South Africa--History--20th century.
Politics and literature--South Africa--History--21st century.
Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
South Africa--In literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Apartheid in literature.

Other Authors:

Singh, Jaspal Kaur, 1951-
Chetty, Rajendra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Postcolonial studies, 1942-6100 ; v. 7

ISBN:

1433107007 (alk. paper)
9781433107009 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)639573781

LCCN:

2010021239

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)