The Cry of Winnie Mandela: A NovelA group of African women at a specific period in Southern Africa's history find their family life under pressure from capitalist modernity and apartheid. This is a deeply humane, sympathetic and generous book on the one hand but is unflinching in its honesty. Ndebele represents a rare breed of writer able to combine political awareness with a sensitivity towards context, language and characterization. The result is a gift offering to the present. This is one of the best books about women's sacrifices and contributions to the struggle against apartheid. |
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Page 39
... desire . Is it possible that our four descendants , as instances of thought turning into desire , can find themselves together in a room ? Why not ? The intangibility and randomness of imagin- ation permit them absolute mobility . In ...
... desire . Is it possible that our four descendants , as instances of thought turning into desire , can find themselves together in a room ? Why not ? The intangibility and randomness of imagin- ation permit them absolute mobility . In ...
Page 51
... desire , taking the form of desperate sentences which succeed in expressing only one thing clearly : loss of control . When you are waiting , you know the meaning of desire : the desire to be the only woman ( even in an illicit ...
... desire , taking the form of desperate sentences which succeed in expressing only one thing clearly : loss of control . When you are waiting , you know the meaning of desire : the desire to be the only woman ( even in an illicit ...
Page 121
... desire . And I've learned that unfulfilled desire can be the father of rage . So , when Major Theunis Swanepoel was finally tired of being cruel , and let us leave his citadel of torture , I carried inside of me like a pregnancy , the ...
... desire . And I've learned that unfulfilled desire can be the father of rage . So , when Major Theunis Swanepoel was finally tired of being cruel , and let us leave his citadel of torture , I carried inside of me like a pregnancy , the ...
Contents
Part | 1 |
The Second Descendant | 17 |
The Fourth Descendant | 36 |
Copyright | |
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absence aka Patience Aunt Deli Basotho beautiful became become bedroom began begin Bizana Bizo body Brandfort Caravelle child Coloured Commission finds death Delisiwe departure descendants desire door dream drive Duduza Ethekwini eyes face feeling freedom fucking Gauteng girl give happened highway husband imagination intimacy Johannesburg journey Laingsburg laugh Leleidi Lesotho Letlala letter live loneliness look maize Major Theunis Swanepoel Mamello Mannete Marara marriage mellowness memory mind Mofolo Nelson Nelson Mandela never night Nomzamo ntombi Odysseus pain Patience Molete Penelope Penelope's Peter Magubane play political prison Quesalid question rage rape remember responsibility rituals Robben Island sangoma sense silence social South African Soweto squatter camp stop story tell things thought torture township turned Urbania Victor Verster Prison walked watched wife Winnie Mandela woman wonder Zintombi