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Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa (African Articulations, 5) by Carli Coetzee; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa (African Articulations, 5) about?

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. In this book the author argues that a younger generation of South Africans is developing important and innovative ways of understanding South African pasts, and that challenge the narratives that have over the last decades been informed by notions of forgiveness and reconciliation. The author uses the image of history-rich blood to explore these approaches to intergenerational memory. Blood under the skin is a carrier of embodied and gendered histories and using this image, the chapters revisit older archives, as well as analyse contemporary South African cultural and literary forms. The emphasis on blood challenges the privileged status skin has had as explanatory category in thinking about identity, and instead emphasises intergenerational transfer and continuity. The argument is that a younger generation is disputing and debating the terms through which to understand contemporary South Africa, as well as for interpreting the legacies of the past tha

Author

Carli Coetzee;

Publisher

James Currey ; Wits University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847012210

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, History