Selves in question : interviews on Southern African auto/biography /

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...

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Další autoři: Coullie, Judith Lütge
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2006.
Edice:Writing past colonialism series.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvvmxrq
Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • Singing the praises, performing the persona
  • Representing silence
  • Relating the self
  • Fact or fiction
  • Subject to metaphor
  • From daughters to mothers
  • Disarming white men
  • Commemoration, confession, conversion
  • Confessing sexualities
  • Re-collecting the new nation.