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In My Heart

In My Heart

Mofokeng, Sofonia Machabe
Maake, Nhlanhla
Gikandi, Simon

Hardcover

Series: Elsewhere Texts

General Sociology

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ISBN10: 0857428926
ISBN13: 9780857428929
Publisher: Sea Boating
Published: Dec 20 2021
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
One of few books translated into English from Sesotho, In My Heart introduces a long-neglected voice to global readership.

Elsewhere Texts, edited by Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak and Hosam Aboul-Ela, presents radical new engagements with non-European literary cultures. This volume, the latest in this ambitious series, is a brilliant collection of essays originally written in Sesotho by Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng. Often confined to the role of native informants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writers working in African languages laid the foundation for the politics and poetics of decolonization and are legendary among their own communities of readers, though their work remains little known elsewhere. In My Heart belongs to this tradition of colonial renegades. Writing in the 1950s during the cataclysmic events of apartheid that were transforming life in South Africa, Mofokeng offers a series of meditations that provide his readers with a Sesotho worldview outside the categories authorized by colonial knowledge. In My Heart, expertly translated by Nhlanhla Maake, introduces a significant African thinker's influential work to a global readership.

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