One of few books translated into English from Sesotho, In My Heart
introduces a long-neglected voice to global readership. Elsewhere
Texts, edited by Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak and Hosam Aboul-Ela,
presents radical new engagements with non-European literary
cultures. This volume, the latest in this ambitious series, is a
brilliant collection of essays originally written in Sesotho by
Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng. Often confined to the role of "native
informants" in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writers
working in African languages laid the foundation for the politics
and poetics of decolonization and are legendary among their own
communities of readers, though their work remains little known
elsewhere. In My Heart belongs to this tradition of colonial
renegades. Writing in the 1950s during the cataclysmic events of
apartheid that were transforming life in South Africa, Mofokeng
offers a series of meditations that provide his readers with a
Sesotho worldview outside the categories authorized by colonial
knowledge. In My Heart, expertly translated by Nhlanhla Maake,
introduces a significant African thinker's influential work to a
global readership.
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