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Written under the skin : blood and intergenerational memory in South Africa /

The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coetzee, Carli (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Johannesburg, South Africa : James Currey ; Wits University Press, 2019.
Colección:African articulations.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Piercing the Skin of the Present
  • Part I Reading Mandela's Blood: The Transition, and the Cell as Portal into Bloodless Time: 2
  • He Must Not Circulate: Eugene de Kock's Blood Relations and his Prison Visitors
  • 3
  • Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory
  • 4
  • A Life Transplanted and Deleted: Hamilton Naki and his Archivists
  • Part II: 5
  • Show Them What Cleaning Is: This Time It's for Mama
  • 6
  • Who Can See this Bleeding? Women's Blood and Men's Blood in these #Fallist Times
  • 7
  • The Bloody Fingerprint: We Must Document
  • Bibliography
  • Index