Selves in Question : Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography /

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Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind u...

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Otros Autores: Attwell, David (Contribuidor), Brown, Duncan (Contribuidor), Cartwright, Duncan (Contribuidor), Coullie, Judith Lutge (Editor ), Coullie, Judith Lütge (Contribuidor), Daymond, M. J. (Contribuidor), Farr, Vanessa (Contribuidor), Jolly, Margaretta (Contribuidor), Kiguli, Susan (Contribuidor), Lewis, Simon (Contribuidor), Lütge, Debbie (Contribuidor), McMurty, Mervyn (Contribuidor), Meyer, Stephan (Contribuidor, Editor ), Michael, Cheryl-Ann (Contribuidor), Ngwenya, Thengani H. (Editor ), Ngwenya, Thengani (Contribuidor), Nuttall, Sarah (Contribuidor), Olver, Thomas (Editor ), Opland, Jeff (Contribuidor), Raditlhalo, Sam (Contribuidor), Sienaert, Marilet (Contribuidor), Starck, Astrid (Contribuidor), Zeeman, Terence (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2006]
Temas:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • Auto/biographical Identities: Placing Selves in Question
  • Auto/biographical Accounts in South Africa in Three Parts
  • Thematic and Theoretical Issues in Southern African Auto/biography: An Overview
  • Scope of the Collection
  • Bibliography
  • II. Singing the Praises, Performing the Persona
  • Versions of a Life in Poetry
  • People Feel No Event Is Complete without a Poet
  • Folk Music as Popular Culture: A Life-history Approach
  • III. Representing Silence
  • I. Speak Their Wordless Woe
  • Making History's Silences Speak
  • IV. Relating the Self
  • Creating a Climate for Change
  • This Miracle of a Book . . . It's Just Like the Bible to Me
  • Collaborators
  • The Making of Katie Makanya
  • V. Fact or Fiction
  • All Autobiography Is Autre-biography
  • We Would Write Very Dull Books If We Just Wrote about Ourselves
  • Writing Autobiography and Writing Fiction
  • VI. Subject to Metaphor
  • Aquifers and Auto/biography in Namibia
  • Reflections on Identity
  • Rhythmic Redoublings
  • VII. From Daughters to Mothers
  • "Mummy, the Coolie Doctor Is at the Door"
  • Why Do You Abandon Me? I Am Your Daughter. Re-presenting Dona Ermelinda
  • Every Secret Thing as Family Memoir
  • VIII. Disarming White Men
  • White Men with Weapons: Performing Autobiography
  • Reflections in a Cracked Mirror
  • IX. Commemoration, Confession, Conversion
  • These Two Autobiographical Books Are My Identity Document
  • Philosophical Reflections on Chronicles of Conversion
  • X. Confessing Sexualities
  • Speaking about Writing about Living a Life
  • Man-bitch: Poetry, Prose, and Prostitution
  • XI. Re-collecting the New Nation
  • Group Portrait: Self, Family, and Nation on Exhibit
  • Resituating Ourselves: Homelessness and Collective Testimony as Narrative Therapy
  • Glossary
  • Contributors
  • Index

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