| Description |
viii, 341 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Worlds of Detention and Imprisonment -- 2. Rewriting the Prison, Rewriting the Nation -- 3. The Body and/in Space -- 4. Legal and Literary Narratives on the Space of Death -- 5. Situating Exile: Postcolonialism, Globalization, and Nationalism -- 6. Exile as a Space of Death: The Individual (William "Bloke" Modisane) and the Organization (the ANC) -- 7. Exiles, Migrants, and Expatriates: The Life Stories of Breyten Breytenbach and Dan Jacobson as Creative Journeys -- 8. Home and Homecoming -- 9. The Witness: Imprisonment and Exile as Symbol -- App. A. Interviewees -- App. B. Key Terms, Events, and Organizations |
| Summary |
"Writing as Resistance charts the inner workings of apartheid, through the encounters - imprisonment, exile, and homecoming - that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. Author Paul Gready demonstrates the transformative nature of autobiographical narrative as resistance in the context of political struggle. This multidisciplinary study addresses a range of important contemporary topics: migration, postcolonialism, globalization, nationalism, human rights, and political democratization, among others."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Political prisoners -- South Africa -- Biography.
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Exiles -- South Africa -- Biography.
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Political persecution -- South Africa.
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Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa.
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Apartheid -- South Africa.
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| SUBJECT |
South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125481 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2003005438 |
| ISBN |
0739105957 cloth alkaline paper |
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