Memory is the Weapon - Softcover

Mattera, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0796163006 ISBN 13: 9780796163004

Verlag: National Library of South Africa, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writer’s Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly di-verse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins. Yet diversity was hardly being celebrated at that time. In one of apartheid’s most infamous actions, the vibrant multicultural Sophiatown was destroyed in 1955 and replaced with the white suburb of Triomf, and the wrenching displacement, can be felt in Mattera’s writing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: National Library of South Africa
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0796163006
• ISBN 13: 9780796163004
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 203
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