Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa
ISBN-10
1847013244
ISBN-13
9781847013248
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2022-05-20
Publisher
James Currey
Author
Carli Coetzee

Description

Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship 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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