South African autobiography as subjective history : making concessions to the past / Lena Englund.
Englund, Lena, author.
2021
PR9355.5.A94 E54 2021
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Title
South African autobiography as subjective history : making concessions to the past / Lena Englund.
Author
Englund, Lena, author.
ISBN
9783030832322 (electronic bk.)
3030832325 (electronic bk.)
9783030832315
3030832317
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83232-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-83232-2 doi
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PR9355.5.A94 E54 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.93529968
Summary
This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nations socio-political realities, both past and present. The texts in focus represent and depict a South Africa caught in the midst of contradictory and competing images of the Rainbow Nation. Arguing that recent memoirs question and criticize the illusion of a united nation, the study shows how these texts reveal the flaws and shortcomings not only of the apartheid past but of contemporary South Africa. It encompasses a broad range of autobiographical works, largely published since 2009, that engage with South Africas past, present and future. At its centre is the quest for space and belonging, and this book investigates who can comfortably belong in South Africa in its post-apartheid, post-Truth and Reconciliation, post-Mbkei and post-Zuma state. Lena Englund is a university researcher in the Department of Finnish Language and Cultural Research, University of Eastern Finland. Her research interests include southern African literature and life writing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
African histories and modernities.
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1. Introduction
2. Writing Subjective Histories
3. Struggling for Space in Christopher Hopes The Cafe de Move-on Blues, Sisonke Msimangs Always Another Country, and Tumi Morakes And then Mama Said ... : Words That Set My Life Alight- 4. Fighting Disadvantage in Trevor Noahs Born a Crime and MalaikaWa Azanias Memoirs of a Born Free
5. Coming to Terms with Violence and Xenophobia: Mark Gevissers Lost and Found in Johannesburg, Kevin Blooms Ways of Staying and Clinton Chaukes Born in Chains
6. Contemplating Forgiveness in Desmond Tutus No Future Without Forgiveness, Lesego Malepes Reclaiming Home, and Haji Mohamed Dawjees Sorry, Not Sorry
7. Rewriting the Legacy of Nelson Mandela: The Memoirs of Ndileka Mandela, Zoleka Mandela and Ndaba Mandela
8. Making Autobiographical Concessions to the Past.

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