Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing [electronic resource] / Jaspal K. Singh & Rajendra Chetty, editors.
Series: Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 7.Publication details: New York : P. Lang, c2010.Description: vi, 205 pSubject(s):- 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
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Race relations in literature
- Collective memory in literature
- Psychic trauma in literature
- Apartheid in literature
- South Africa -- In literature
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- PR9355.2 .T73 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Zo�e 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 Zo�e Wicombs David's story / Jane Poyner -- Driving the devil into the ground: settler myth in Andr�e 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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