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South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past

South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past

Englund, Lena

Hardcover

Series: African Histories and Modernities

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesHistoriography

ISBN10: 3030832317
ISBN13: 9783030832315
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 15 2021
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation's socio-political realities, both past and present. The texts in focus represent and depict a South Africa caught in the midst of contradictory and competing images of the 'Rainbow Nation'. Arguing that recent memoirs question and criticize the illusion of a united nation, the study shows how these texts reveal the flaws and shortcomings not only of the apartheid past but of contemporary South Africa. It encompasses a broad range of autobiographical works, largely published since 2009, that engage with South Africa's past, present and future. At its centre is the quest for space and belonging, and this book investigates who can comfortably 'belong' in South Africa in its post-apartheid, post-Truth and Reconciliation, post-Mbkei and post-Zuma state.

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