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Author Attree, Lizzy

Title Blood on the page : interviews with African authors writing about HIV/AIDS / by Lizzy Attree
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; INTERVIEW WITH PHASWANE MPE 26TH NOVEMBER 2004 -- JOHANNESBURG; INTERVIEW WITH SINDIWE MAGONA 20TH JULY 2006 -- CAPE TOWN; INTERVIEW WITH KGAFELA OA MAGOGODI 24TH JULY 2006 -- JOHANNESBURG; INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER KANENGONI 4TH AUGUST 2006 -- HARARE; INTERVIEW WITH VIVIENNE KERNOHAN AKA VIOLET KALA/VIVIENNE NDLOVUF ROM SEPT-NOV 2006 BY EMAIL; INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES MUNGOSHI 7TH AUGUST 2006 -- HARARE; INTERVIEW WITH NIQ MHLONGO 15TH JUNE 2008 -- CAPE TOWN BOOK FAIR; INTERVIEW WITH VALERIE TAGWIRA 3RD SEPTEMBER 2008 -- LONDON
INTERVIEW WITH JONNY STEINBERG 22ND SEPTEMBER 2008 -- BY EMAILINTERVIEW WITH SIPHIWO MAHALA 20TH APRIL 2009 -- LONDON BOOK FAIR; INTERVIEW WITH TENDAYI WESTERHOF 16TH NOVEMBER 2009 -- HARARE; INTERVIEW WITH LUTA SHABA 18TH NOVEMBER 2009 -- HARARE; INTERVIEW WITH STANLEY NYAMFUKUDZA 28TH JANUARY 2010 -- LONDON; INTERVIEW WITH LIZ MCGREGOR 4TH FEBRUARY 2010 -- BY EMAIL; BIBLIOGRAPHY; AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary The fourteen interviews in this book form an unprecedented wealth of material on authors' responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They comprise a valuable archive which documents and contextualises the variety of views and opinions of different authors on their often ground-breaking choices in writing about HIV/AIDS. Each author ranks among the first to publish fiction on HIV/AIDS in their respective countries. These interviews are of particular merit as these issues have not been..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index
Notes English
Subject African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
African literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
AIDS (Disease) in literature.
Authors, African -- 20th century -- Interviews
Authors, African -- 21st century -- Interviews
Literature & literary studies.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
HIV / AIDS: social aspects.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
African literature
AIDS (Disease) in literature
Authors, African
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010467977
ISBN 9781443820998
1443820997