LEADER 04381nam 22007935 450 001 9910502617503321 005 20251113181506.0 010 $a9783030832322 010 $a3030832325 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-83232-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000012026674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6727162 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6727162 035 $a(OCoLC)1287131361 035 $a(MiFhGG)9783030832322 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-83232-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012026674 100 $a20210914d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSouth African Autobiography as Subjective History $eMaking Concessions to the Past /$fby Lena Englund 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (218 pages) 225 1 $aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 311 08$a9783030832315 311 08$a3030832317 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Writing Subjective Histories -- 3. Struggling for Space in Christopher Hope?s The Café de Move-on Blues, Sisonke Msimang?s Always Another Country, and Tumi Morake?s And then Mama Said....: Words That Set My Life Alight- 4. Fighting Disadvantage in Trevor Noah?s Born a Crime and MalaikaWa Azania?s Memoirs of a Born Free -- 5. Coming to Terms with Violence and Xenophobia: Mark Gevisser?s Lost and Found in Johannesburg, Kevin Bloom?s Ways of Staying and Clinton Chauke?s Born in Chains -- 6. Contemplating Forgiveness in Desmond Tutu?s No Future Without Forgiveness, Lesego Malepe?s Reclaiming Home, and Haji Mohamed Dawjee?s Sorry, Not Sorry -- 7. Rewriting the Legacy of Nelson Mandela: The Memoirs of Ndileka Mandela, Zoleka Mandela and Ndaba Mandela -- 8. Making Autobiographical Concessions to the Past. . 330 $aThis book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation?s socio-political realities, both past and present. The texts in focus represent and depict a South Africa caught in the midst of contradictory and competing images of the ?Rainbow Nation?. Arguing that recent memoirs question and criticize the illusion of a united nation, the study shows how these texts reveal the flaws and shortcomings not only of the apartheid past but of contemporary South Africa. It encompasses a broad range of autobiographical works, largely published since 2009, that engage with South Africa?s past, present and future. At its centre is the quest for space and belonging, and this book investigates who can comfortably ?belong? in South Africa in its post-apartheid, post-Truth and Reconciliation, post-Mbkei and post-Zuma state. Lena Englund is a university researcher in the Department of Finnish Language and Cultural Research, University of Eastern Finland. Her research interests include southern African literature and life writing. 410 0$aAfrican Histories and Modernities,$x2634-5781 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x21st century 606 $aCreative nonfiction 606 $aCollective memory 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aRace 606 $aAfrican Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aNon-Fiction Literature 606 $aMemory Studies 606 $aCultural Theory 606 $aRace and Ethnicity Studies 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x21st century. 615 0$aCreative nonfiction. 615 0$aCollective memory. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aRace. 615 14$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aNon-Fiction Literature. 615 24$aMemory Studies. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 615 24$aRace and Ethnicity Studies. 676 $a820.9968 676 $a820.93529968 700 $aEnglund$b Lena$0853135 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910502617503321 996 $aSouth African Autobiography As Subjective History$92555193 997 $aUNINA