Black South African Autobiography After Deleuze

Belonging and Becoming in Self-Testimony
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34643-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 198, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

M Masemola, Kgomotso

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:

The Nomadic Routes of Black South African Autobiography
1 Topologies of Collocation: The Problematic of Representation in Black South African Autobiography
2 Of Belonging and Becoming: Black Atlantic Cultural Memory in the Early Autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es’kia Mphahlele
3 The ‘Worldliness’ of the Wilderness Text: The Aporetic Experience of Exile in Mphahlele’s The Wanderers and N. Chabani Manganyi’s Mashangu’s Reverie
4 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
5 The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law, and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona
6 Demonstrating the Democratic Ideal in the Idea of Aporetic Autobiography: Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele’s A Life
Conclusion: Autobiography All the Same? The Assemblage of Cultural Memory, the Semblance of History,
and the Dissemblance of the Other
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

KGOMOTSO MICHAEL MASEMOLA, PhD (University of Sheffield, 2006), is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria. Besides contributing book chapters to such works as The Oxford History of the Novel in English (2016), he has published articles and is the editor of Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography (2014).