Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Gillian Slovo | Her husband
had already left South Africa. Their grandmother
looked after the children. Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997. 79 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gillian Slovo | GS
's father, Joe Slovo
, was leader of the South African Communist Party
, white South Africa's bogeyman. Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997. 16 |
Friends, Associates | Deborah Levy | DL
's parents knew famous political figures like Nelson
and Winnie Mandela
, Ruth First
, Joe Slovo
, and Helen Joseph
. Deborah's sister had Joseph as namesake-godmother, “Norman Levy”. SAHO South African History Online, 17 Feb. 2011. Levy, Norman. The Final Prize. My Life in the Anti-apartheid Struggle. South African History Online, 2011. 317, 382 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Gillian Slovo | When she told her father
(who was already ill with cancer) that she wanted to learn more about the past of Ruth First
(his wife, her mother), to enable her to write this book, he... |
Textual Production | Gillian Slovo | She dedicated the book to her parents, Ruth
and Joe
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gillian Slovo | GS
sets out here to convey what her extraordinary parents, especially her mother, were like, and what it was like for herself and her sisters to be their children. Ruth First, she says, was in... |
Travel | Gillian Slovo |
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