Selves in Question
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Selves in Question

Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography

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Selves in Question

Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography

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Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780824843502
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. I. Introduction
  3. Auto/biographical Identities: Placing Selves in Question
  4. Auto/biographical Accounts in South Africa in Three Parts
  5. Thematic and Theoretical Issues in Southern African Auto/biography: An Overview
  6. Scope of the Collection
  7. Bibliography
  8. II. Singing the Praises, Performing the Persona
  9. Versions of a Life in Poetry
  10. People Feel No Event Is Complete without a Poet
  11. Folk Music as Popular Culture: A Life-history Approach
  12. III. Representing Silence
  13. I. Speak Their Wordless Woe
  14. Making History’s Silences Speak
  15. IV. Relating the Self
  16. Creating a Climate for Change
  17. This Miracle of a Book . . . It’s Just Like the Bible to Me
  18. Collaborators
  19. The Making of Katie Makanya
  20. V. Fact or Fiction
  21. All Autobiography Is Autre-biography
  22. We Would Write Very Dull Books If We Just Wrote about Ourselves
  23. Writing Autobiography and Writing Fiction
  24. VI. Subject to Metaphor
  25. Aquifers and Auto/biography in Namibia
  26. Reflections on Identity
  27. Rhythmic Redoublings
  28. VII. From Daughters to Mothers
  29. “Mummy, the Coolie Doctor Is at the Door”
  30. Why Do You Abandon Me? I Am Your Daughter. Re-presenting Dona Ermelinda
  31. Every Secret Thing as Family Memoir
  32. VIII. Disarming White Men
  33. White Men with Weapons: Performing Autobiography
  34. Reflections in a Cracked Mirror
  35. IX. Commemoration, Confession, Conversion
  36. These Two Autobiographical Books Are My Identity Document
  37. Philosophical Reflections on Chronicles of Conversion
  38. X. Confessing Sexualities
  39. Speaking about Writing about Living a Life
  40. Man-bitch: Poetry, Prose, and Prostitution
  41. XI. Re-collecting the New Nation
  42. Group Portrait: Self, Family, and Nation on Exhibit
  43. Resituating Ourselves: Homelessness and Collective Testimony as Narrative Therapy
  44. Glossary
  45. Contributors
  46. Index