Selves in Question : : Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography / / ed. by Judith Lutge Coullie, Thomas Olver, Thengani H. Ngwenya, Stephan Meyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Attwell, David,; Brown, Duncan,; Cartwright, Duncan,; Coullie, Judith Lütge,; Daymond, M. J.,; Farr, Vanessa,; Jolly, Margaretta,; Kiguli, Susan,; Lewis, Simon,; Lütge, Debbie,; McMurty, Mervyn,; Meyer, Stephan,; Michael, Cheryl-Ann,; Ngwenya, Thengani,; Nuttall, Sarah,; Opland, Jeff,; Raditlhalo, Sam,; Sienaert, Marilet,; Starck, Astrid,; Zeeman, Terence,
• HerausgeberIn: Coullie, Judith Lutge,; Meyer, Stephan,; Ngwenya, Thengani H.,; Olver, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.)

Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind u...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• I. Introduction
• Auto/biographical Identities: Placing Selves in Question
• Auto/biographical Accounts in South Africa in Three Parts
• Thematic and Theoretical Issues in Southern African Auto/biography: An Overview
• Scope of the Collection
• Bibliography
• II. Singing the Praises, Performing the Persona
• Versions of a Life in Poetry
• People Feel No Event Is Complete without a Poet
• Folk Music as Popular Culture: A Life-history Approach
• III. Representing Silence
• I. Speak Their Wordless Woe
• Making History's Silences Speak
• IV. Relating the Self
• Creating a Climate for Change
• This Miracle of a Book . . . It's Just Like the Bible to Me
• Collaborators
• The Making of Katie Makanya
• V. Fact or Fiction
• All Autobiography Is Autre-biography
• We Would Write Very Dull Books If We Just Wrote about Ourselves
• Writing Autobiography and Writing Fiction
• VI. Subject to Metaphor
• Aquifers and Auto/biography in Namibia
• Reflections on Identity
• Rhythmic Redoublings
• VII. From Daughters to Mothers
• "Mummy, the Coolie Doctor Is at the Door"
• Why Do You Abandon Me? I Am Your Daughter. Re-presenting Dona Ermelinda
• Every Secret Thing as Family Memoir
• VIII. Disarming White Men
• White Men with Weapons: Performing Autobiography
• Reflections in a Cracked Mirror
• IX. Commemoration, Confession, Conversion
• These Two Autobiographical Books Are My Identity Document
• Philosophical Reflections on Chronicles of Conversion
• X. Confessing Sexualities
• Speaking about Writing about Living a Life
• Man-bitch: Poetry, Prose, and Prostitution
• XI. Re-collecting the New Nation
• Group Portrait: Self, Family, and Nation on Exhibit
• Resituating Ourselves: Homelessness and Collective Testimony as Narrative Therapy
• Glossary
• Contributors
• Index