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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coetzee, Carli (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Johannesburg, South Africa : James Currey ; Wits University Press, 2019.
Series:African articulations.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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