Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

Carli Coetzee

doi:10.1017/9781787444263

Written under the Skin

Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

The author uses the image of blood under the skin as a way of understanding cultural and literary forms in contemporary South Africa. Chapters deal with the bloodied histories of apartheid and blood as trope for talking about change.

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Written under the Skin

Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xii

Introduction: Piercing the Skin of the Present
pp 1-16

Part I
pp 17-18

1 - Reading Mandela's Blood: The Transition, and the Cell as Portal into Bloodless Time
pp 19-38

2 - He Must Not Circulate: Eugene de Kock's Blood Relations and his Prison Visitors
pp 39-60

3 - Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory
pp 61-80

4 - A Life Transplanted and Deleted: Hamilton Naki and his Archivists
pp 81-100

Part II
pp 101-102

5 - Show Them What Cleaning Is: This Time It's for Mama
pp 103-120

6 - Who Can See this Bleeding? Women's Blood and Men's Blood in these #Fallist Times
pp 121-146

7 - The Bloody Fingerprint: We Must Document
pp 147-154

Bibliography
pp 155-172

Index
pp 173-176

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 177-177

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