The Long Journey Of Poppie Nongena

Author : Elsa Joubert
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868429776
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena written by Elsa Joubert and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppie Nongena's arduous journey covers 40 years of South Africa's history, sweeping through the riots of Sharpeville, Soweto and Cape Town, on to an indefinite but unpromising future. The plot reflects the brutality and injustice of the Apartheid system, while Elsa Joubert's characterisations reflects the courage and fortitude of people in the face of hardship and difficulty. Poppie's contented childhood in the Cape's countryside came to an end when she married a migrant worker, and was forced by the authorities to move with him and their young family to the unfamiliar and bewildering city of Cape Town. No sooner had she established her roots in the new township, when the laws changed and she was informed of her obligation to relocate to the Ciskei, her husband's homeland. He, as a migrant worker, was permitted to remain in the Cape to work. Over a ten-year period, Poppie fought the heinous 'pass law' system, winning limited extensions to the permit that would allow her to live and work in Cape Town and enable her to keep the family together and provide an education for her children. Her own anger was shared by thousands and inevitably the brooding undercurrent of discontent exploded throughout South Africa. Suddenly, there were no further extensions. Poppie and her children were forcibly removed from their home and 'resettled' in a new township, hundreds of miles away near East London. The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena is an epic tale of the endless adversity and struggle of a humble black woman under Apartheid laws. Poppie emerges from being a simple country girl to becoming an archetypal heroine of South Africa.

Author : Elsa Joubert
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393334319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poppie Nongena written by Elsa Joubert and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poppie's contented childhood ends when she marries, moves to Cape Town and later is forced to resettle apart from her husband. The drama of the Soweto and Sharpeville uprisings are vividly portrayed.

Author : Elsa Joubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena written by Elsa Joubert and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elsa Joubert's The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Mcclintock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135209103
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Leather written by Anne Mcclintock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.

Author : Elsa Joubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393022421
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poppie Nongena written by Elsa Joubert and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nahem Yousaf
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042015067
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apartheid Narratives written by Nahem Yousaf and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an engaging and dynamic collection of essays on South African writing, an international cast of contributors pay detailed attention to the shifting parameters of scholarly debates on apartheid and the apartheid era. Investigating a range of literary and critical perspectives on a period that shaped the literature of South Africa for much of the twentieth century, the contributors offer a rich survey. The volume focuses on internationally acclaimed writers (Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee) as well as those writers who are yet to receive sustained critical attention (Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Alex La Guma, Bessie Head, Ahmed Essop, Ronnie Govender). Apartheid Narratives will be welcomed by academics and students of South African writing as a stimulating collection which maps the literary terrain of apartheid.

Author : Judith Lutge Coullie
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824830045
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selves in Question written by Judith Lutge Coullie and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kylie Thomas
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611485355
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossible Mourning written by Kylie Thomas and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossible Mourning argues that while the HIV/AIDS epidemic has figured largely in public discourse in South Africa over the last ten years, particularly in debates about governance and constitutional rights post-apartheid, the experiences of people living with HIV for the most part remain invisible and the multiple losses due to AIDS have gone publicly unmourned. This profound fact is at the center of this book which explores the significance of the disavowal of AIDS-death in relation to violence, death, and mourning under apartheid. Impossible Mourning shows how in spite of the magnitude of the epidemic and as a result of the stigma and discrimination that has largely characterized both national and personal responses to the epidemic, spaces for the expression of collective mourning have been few. This book engages with multiple forms of visual representation that work variously to compound, undo, and complicate the politics of loss. Drawing on work Thomas did in art and narrative support groups while working with people living with HIV/AIDS in Khayelitsha, a township outside of the city of Cape Town this book also includes analyses of the work of South African visual artists and photographers Jane Alexander, Gille de Vlieg, Jillian Edelstein, Pieter Hugo, Ezrom Legae, Gideon Mendel, Zanele Muholi, Sam Nhlengethwa, Paul Stopforth, and Diane Victor.

Author : Barbara Henkes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004401601
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family written by Barbara Henkes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is situated at the cutting edge of the political-ethical dimension of history writing. Henkes investigates various responsibilities and loyalties towards family and nation, as well as other major ethical obligations towards society and humanity when historical subjects have to deal with a repressive political regime. In the first section we follow pre-war German immigrants in the Netherlands and their German affiliation during the era of National Socialism. The second section explores the positions of Dutch emigrants who settled after the Second World War in Apartheid South Africa. The narratives of these transnational agents and their relatives provide a lens through which changing constructions of national identities, and the acceptance or rejection of a nationalist policy on racial grounds, can be observed in everyday practice.