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 us that the self is
constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its
status and representation are always in question. The contributors,
therefore, look at ways in which auto/biographical practices
contribute to placing, understanding, and troubling the self and
selves in postcolonies in the current global constellation. They
examine topics such as the contexts conducive to production
processes; the contents and forms of auto/biographical accounts;
and finally, their impact on the producers and the audience. In
doing so they map out a multitude of variables--including the
specific historical juncture, geo-political locations, social
positions, cultures, languages, generations, and genders--in their
relations to auto/biographical practices. Those interviewed include
the famous and the hardly known, women and men, writers and
performers who communicate in a variety of languages: Afrikaans,
English, Xhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, and Yiddish. An extensive
introduction offers a general framework on the contestation of self
through auto/biography, a historical overview of auto/biographical
representation in South Africa up to the present time, an outline
of theoretical and thematic issues at stake in southern Africa
auto/biography, and extensive primary and secondary biographies.
Interviewees: Breyten Breytenbach, Dennis Brutus, Valentine
Cascarino, Vanitha Chetty, Wilfred Cibane, Greig Coetzee, J. M.
Coetzee, Paul Faber, David Goldblatt, Stephen Gray, Dorian
Haarhoff, Rayda Jacobs, Elsa Joubert, K. Limakatso Kendall, Ester
Lee, Doris Lessing, Sindiwe Magona, Margaret McCord, N. Chabani
Manganyi, Zolani Mkiva, Jonathan Morgan, Es'kia Mphahlele, Rob
Nixon, Mpho Nthunya, Robert Scott, Gillian Slovo, Alex J. Thembela,
Pieter-Dirk Uys, Johan van Wyk, Wilhelm Verwoerd, David Wolpe, D.
L. P.Yali Manisi.
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