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Writing as resistance : life stories of imprisonment, exile, and homecoming from apartheid South Africa / Paul Gready.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gready, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political prisoners--South Africa--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- History.
- Political persecution.
- Exiles.
- South Africa.
- Exiles--South Africa--Biography.
- Political persecution--South Africa.
- Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
- Anti-apartheid movements.
- Apartheid--South Africa.
- Apartheid.
- South Africa--History--1961---Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2003]
- Contents:
- The worlds of detention and imprisonment
- Rewriting the prison, rewriting the nation
- The body and/in space
- Legal and literary narratives on the space of death
- Situating exile : postcolonialism, globalization, and nationalism
- Exile as a space of death : the individual (William Bloke Modisane) and the organization (the ANC)
- Exiles, migrants, and expatriates : the life stories of Breyten Breytenbach and Dan Jacobson as creative journeys
- Home and homecoming
- The witness : imprisonment and exile as symbol.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739105957
- OCLC:
- 51867840
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