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Lie on your wounds : the prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Title
Lie on your wounds : the prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe / selected and edited by Derek Hook.
Author
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso
Publication
  • Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Hook, Derek
Description
xxi, 565 pages : black-and-white illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book of approximately 300 letters provides access to the voice of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource that exists: his prison letters. Not only do these letters evince Sobukwe's storytelling abilities, they convey the complexity of a man who defied easy categorisation. More than this: they are testimony to both the desolate conditions of his imprisonment and to Sobukwe's unbending commitment to the cause of African liberation. The memory of Sobukwe, inspirational political leader and first President of the Pan Africanist Congress, has been consistently marginalized in histories of the liberation struggle. Given Sobukwe's antagonistic relations both to white liberalism and the African National Congress, it is unsurprising that he has been subjected to a 'consensus of forgetting'. This collection of letters brings Sobukwe's voice back to the fore"--Back cover.
Series Statement
African lives series ; number 14
Uniform Title
African lives series ; no. 14.
Subject
  • Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso > Correspondence
  • Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso
  • 1961-1978
  • Political activists > South Africa > Correspondence
  • Political activists > South Africa > Biography
  • Political activists
  • Politics and government
  • South Africa > Politics and government > 1961-1978
  • South Africa
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Personal correspondence.
Note
  • "Letters of opposition to South African apartheid"--Front cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-554) and index.
Contents
Preface / Otua Sobukwe -- Introduction -- Letters: 1960-1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969 -- Address at Fort Hare College by Mr Sobukwe, October 21, 1949.
ISBN
  • 1776142403
  • 9781776142408
  • 9781776144617
  • 1776144619
  • 9781776142415 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781766142422 (canceled/invalid)
  • 978177614272p (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • on1057377321
  • SCSB-9486935
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library