Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing [electronic resource] /
Jaspal K. Singh & Rajendra Chetty, editors.
- New York : P. Lang, c2010.
- vi, 205 p.
- Postcolonial studies, v. 7 1942-6100 ; .
- Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 7. .
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.
South African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Literature and society--History--South Africa--20th century.
Literature and society--History--South Africa--21st century.
Politics and literature--History--South Africa--20th century.
Politics and literature--History--South Africa--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.
Electronic books.
PR9355.2 / .T73 2010eb
820.9/355
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.
South African literature (English)--History and criticism.
Literature and society--History--South Africa--20th century.
Literature and society--History--South Africa--21st century.
Politics and literature--History--South Africa--20th century.
Politics and literature--History--South Africa--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.
Electronic books.
PR9355.2 / .T73 2010eb
820.9/355