The Implicated Subject in Four South African Autobiographical Texts.
Finding new ways to address oppressive pasts has been a prominent theme in South African nonfiction since the end of apartheid, writers often seeking to explore personal and collective implication and guilt. The legacies of oppression and discrimination spill over into the South African present of s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 843 - 860 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2022
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