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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... husband should come back ! " We know as readers how unfair this judgement is . How insensitive ! But then , the passers - by merely reflect their society's predominant view of the role of a wife in a marriage . It is based on a simple ...
... husband should come back ! " We know as readers how unfair this judgement is . How insensitive ! But then , the passers - by merely reflect their society's predominant view of the role of a wife in a marriage . It is based on a simple ...
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... husband . The notion of independence enters her consciousness . Her survival and that of her children push her towards independent decision - making . At the same time , she contemplates the limits of her independence as she sees that ...
... husband . The notion of independence enters her consciousness . Her survival and that of her children push her towards independent decision - making . At the same time , she contemplates the limits of her independence as she sees that ...
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... husband next to her , she will rescue the township from oblivion . This project enables her to send him photographs ... husband . In the eighth year , the township produced two more doctors , one a woman . Her absent student husband was ...
... husband next to her , she will rescue the township from oblivion . This project enables her to send him photographs ... husband . In the eighth year , the township produced two more doctors , one a woman . Her absent student husband was ...
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