Title Written under the skin : blood and intergenerational memory in South Africa / Carli Coetzee

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey ; Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series African articulations African articulations. Contents Preface -- Introduction: Piercing the Skin of the Present -- Part I Reading Mandela's Blood: The Transition, and the Cell as Portal into Bloodless Time: 2 -- He Must Not Circulate: Eugene de Kock's Blood Relations and his Prison Visitors -- 3 -- Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory -- 4 -- A Life Transplanted and Deleted: Hamilton Naki and his Archivists -- Part II: 5 -- Show Them What Cleaning Is: This Time It's for Mama -- 6 -- Who Can See this Bleeding? Women's Blood and Men's Blood in these #Fallist Times -- 7 -- The Bloody Fingerprint: We Must Document -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 21, 2019) Subject Collective memory -- South Africa HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa. Collective memory SUBJECT South Africa -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125474 Subject South Africa Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787444263 1787444260 9781787444331 1787444333

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