Overview
- Explores the representation of South Africa’s socio-political realities in contemporary autobiographical texts
- Incorporates a broad range of memoirs, published largely since 2009
- Investigates the concept of belonging in relation to South Africa’s complex colonial and apartheid-era history
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: South African Autobiography as Subjective History
Book Subtitle: Making Concessions to the Past
Authors: Lena Englund
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83232-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83231-5Published: 15 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83234-6Published: 16 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83232-2Published: 14 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 214
Topics: African Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literature, general, Memory Studies, Cultural Theory, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime