Black South African autobiography after Deleuze : : belonging and becoming in self-testimony / / by Kgomotso Michael Masemola.

• Superior document: Cross/cultures, Volume 198
• VerfasserIn: Masemola, Kgomotso M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; Volume 198.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 pages).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Black South African Autobiography After Deleuze: Belonging and Becoming in Self-Testimony , Kgomotso Michael Masemola uses Gilles Deleuze’s theories of immanence and deterritorialization to explore South African autobiography as both the site and the limit of intertextual cultural memory. Detailing the intertextual turn that is commensurate with belonging to the African world and its diasporic reaches through the Black Atlantic, among others, this book covers autobiographies from Peter Abrahams to Es’kia Mphahlele, from Ellen Kuzwayo to Nelson Mandela. It proceeds further to reveal wider dimensions of angst and belonging that attend becoming through transcultural memory. Kgomotso Michael Masemola successfully marshalls Deleuzean theories in a sophisticated re-reading that makes clear the autobiographers’ epistemic access to wor(l)ds beyond South Africa.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- Topologies of Collocation: The Problematic of Representation in Black South African Autobiography / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- Of Belonging and Becoming: Black Atlantic Transcultural Memory in the Early Autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es’kia Mphahlele / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- The ‘Worldliness’ of the Wilderness Text: The Aporetic Experience of Exile in Mphahlele’s The Wanderers and N. Chabani Manganyi’s Mashangu’s Reverie / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- Between the Double Temporality of Tinseltown and Sophiatown: Cultural Memory in Miriam Makeba’s Makeba: My Story and Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law, and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- Demonstrating the Democratic Ideal in the Idea of Aporetic Autobiography: Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele’s A Life / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- Conclusion: Autobiography All the Same? The Assemblage of Cultural Memory, the Semblance of History, and the Dissemblance of the Other / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- Works Cited / Kgomotso Michael Masemola -- Index / Kgomotso Michael Masemola.