Written under the Skin
Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
1st Edition
Published on 18. January 2019
192 pages
978-1-78744-426-3 (ISBN)
Description
The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.
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Coetzee Carli:
Carli Coetzee is Editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies. Her publications include: Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (Wits University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Afropolitanism: Reboot (Routledge, 2017). She co-edited The Handbook of African Literature (Routledge, 2019) with Moradewun Adejunmobi and Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa(Oxford University Press, 1998) with Sarah Nuttall.
Carli Coetzee is Editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies. Her publications include: Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid (Wits University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Afropolitanism: Reboot (Routledge, 2017). She co-edited The Handbook of African Literature (Routledge, 2019) with Moradewun Adejunmobi and Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa(Oxford University Press, 1998) with Sarah Nuttall.
Content
Preface
Introduction: Piercing the skin of the present
PART 1 Reading Mandela's Blood: The transition, and the cell as portal into bloodless time
He must not circulate: Eugene de Kock's blood relations and his prison visitors
Ruth First's red suitcase: In and out of the strongroom of memory
A life transplanted and deleted: Hamilton Naki and his archivists
PART 2 "Show them what cleaning is": This time it's for Mama
Who can see this bleeding?: Women's blood and men's blood in these #Fallist times
The bloody fingerprint: We must document
Introduction: Piercing the skin of the present
PART 1 Reading Mandela's Blood: The transition, and the cell as portal into bloodless time
He must not circulate: Eugene de Kock's blood relations and his prison visitors
Ruth First's red suitcase: In and out of the strongroom of memory
A life transplanted and deleted: Hamilton Naki and his archivists
PART 2 "Show them what cleaning is": This time it's for Mama
Who can see this bleeding?: Women's blood and men's blood in these #Fallist times
The bloody fingerprint: We must document
