Writing as resistance : life stories of imprisonment, exile, and homecoming from apartheid South Africa / Paul Gready.

Author/creator Gready, Paul
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2003.
Descriptionviii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Political prisoners--South Africa. --Biography.
Exiles--South Africa. --Biography.
Political persecution--South Africa.
Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
Apartheid--South Africa.
South Africa--History. --1961-1994. --Biography.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-327) and index.
LCCN 2003005438
ISBN0739105957 (cloth : alk. paper)

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