Carli Coetzee

Written Under the Skin

Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781847012210
• ISBN-10: 1847012213
• Artikelnr.: 54807056

Autorenporträt

Carli Coetzee

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Piercing the skin of the present PART 1 Reading
Mandela's Blood: The transition, and the cell as portal into bloodless time
He must not circulate: Eugene de Kock's blood relations and his prison
visitors Ruth First's red suitcase: In and out of the strongroom of memory
A life transplanted and deleted: Hamilton Naki and his archivists PART 2
"Show them what cleaning is": This time it's for Mama Who can see this
bleeding?: Women's blood and men's blood in these #Fallist times The bloody
fingerprint: We must document