Browsing Research Outputs (English Studies) by Subject "autobiography"

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Feminisms in an African Context: Mariama Bâ's so Long a Letter

Latha, Rizwana Habib (Agenda Feminist Media, 2001-06)

RIZWANA HABIB LATHA looks at the issue of feminisms in an African Muslim post-colonial context, using the semi-autobiographical novella, So Long a Letter by Senegalese writer Mariama Ba as its basis.
The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona

Masemola, Kgomotso (Routledge, 2010-02)

This article signposts the discussion of autobiographical selfing through figures of cultural memory that are a function of double consciousness and double temporality. Two exemplary autobiographies, one by Ellen Kuzwayo ...
The repetition of the nomos of cultural memory in Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele's A Life

Masemola, Kgomotso (Taylor & Francis, 2013-08)

This article points to the repetition of figures of memory in autobiography as a condition of entry into a distinct temporality of ‘worldliness’. The said entry, as the two autobiographies by Nelson Mandela and Mamphela ...

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