Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman - Softcover

Nthunya, Mpho Matsepo; Nthunya, Mpho M'Atsepo; Kendall, K. Limakatso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025321162X ISBN 13: 9780253211620

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1997

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A powerful autobiographical account by a born storyteller who might have been a candidate for the Nobel Prize had she been born in different circumstances.

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Mpho Matsepo Nthunya was born in Lesotho in 1930 and educated in South Africa. Having returned to Lesotho in 1949 to escape apartheid, she supported her family as a domestic worker for thirty years. K. Limakatso Kendall is an American actor, writer, and academic who emigrated to South Africa in 1995. She is now Professor of Drama Studies at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya was born in Lesotho in 1930 and educated in South Africa. Having returned to Lesotho in 1949 to escape apartheid, she supported her family as a domestic worker for thirty years. K. Limakatso Kendall is an American actor, writer, and academic who emigrated to South Africa in 1995. She is now Professor of Drama Studies at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

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A compelling and unique autobiography by an African woman with little formal education, less privilege, and almost no experience of books or writing. Mpho's voice is a voice almost never heard in literature or history, a voice from within the struggle of ""ordinary"" African women to negotiate a world which incorporates ancient pastoral ways and the congestion, brutality, and racist violence of city life. It is also the voice of a born storyteller who has a subject worthy of her gifts - a story for all the world to hear.

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A compelling and unique autobiography by an African woman with little formal education, less privilege, and almost no experience of books or writing. Mpho's voice is a voice almost never heard in literature or history, a voice from within the struggle of "ordinary" African women to negotiate a world which incorporates ancient pastoral ways and the congestion, brutality, and racist violence of city life. It is also the voice of a born storyteller who has a subject worthy of her gifts - a story for all the world to hear.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 025321162X
• ISBN 13: 9780253211620
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar