| Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Contributor(s): Gready, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739105957 ISBN-13: 9780739105955 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $129.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2003 Annotation: Writing as Resistance charts a journey through the inner workings of apartheid, through encounters imprisonment, exile, homecoming that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. This is a study of linked encounters through life stories, which provide a window between apartheid as ideology and as lived experience, and are portrayed as ultimately playing a part in transforming defeat into victory, oppression into democracy through Writing as Resistance |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003005438 |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 6.7" W x 9.28" (1.38 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. While informed by the work of South African writers-- including Breytenbach, Coetzee, First, Krog, Modisane, and Serote-- and adding to the literature on the apartheid era, this book speaks to all cultures of violence. With this important work Gready sheds new light on the relationship between violence and creativity. |