Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997.
157, 222
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Jackie Kay | In the absence of any black people around her while she was growing up in Scotland, JK
invented fantasy relationships with well-known black people from around the world such as Nelson Mandela
, Ella Fitzgerald |
Education | Anna Livia | The school is located near the South African border; it was attended by the sons of Desmond Tutu
and Nelson Mandela
during Apartheid. Nadine Gordimer
's son Hugo Cassirer
was also a student there. Anna... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gillian Slovo | From 1961 the lawyer Joe Slovo became deeply involved in a campaign of violent sabotage against the South African apartheid government. He and Nelson Mandelabecame the initial high command for the new army—Umkhonto we Sizwe |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gillian Slovo | In 1987, some years after Ruth First was killed, Joe married Helena Dolny
, a woman with two children. Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown, 1997. 157, 222 |
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 |
Literary responses | Gillian Slovo | H. Jack Geiger
wrote in the New York Times: Three themes dominate in this painful (and somewhat disjointed) record: secrecy, perceived abandonment and the rage it engenders, and ambivalence. For him its moving moment... |
Reception | Nadine Gordimer | This book's reception was polarized along political lines. The Soweto riots (which began three years before this novel appeared) were a factor when it was banned. When the ban was lifted in 1980, NG
was... |
Textual Features | Naomi Mitchison | A key figure in it is Nelson Mandela
, then in prison. |
Textual Production | Dervla Murphy | This book maintains DM
's habit of noticing the seldom noticed: here the culture of poor whites, publicly parading with appeals for work, most of them drunk or stoned. The amount of information and cogitation... |
Textual Production | Hélène Cixous | CH published Manne: aux Mandelstams aux Mandelas, a text about three disparate people linked by the opening of their surnames: South African politicians Winnie
and Nelson Mandela
, and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam
. Running-Johnson, Cynthia. “Cixouss Left and Right Hands of Writing in Tambours sur la digue and OsnabrückFrench Forum, Vol. 26 , No. 3, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 111-22. |
Textual Production | Rosalind Coward | RC
published Diana
: The Portrait, with a foreword by Nelson Mandela
and an introduction by Lady Sarah McCorquodale
. It is authorized by the estate of the late princess and by the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fund |
Textual Production | Rosalind Coward | RC
planned a book-length study or biography of Nelson Mandela
(similar to that of Princess Diana
), but instead she contributed interviews to Mandela: The Authorised Portrait by Mac Maharaj
and A. M. Kathrada
... |
Textual Production | Nadine Gordimer | Walder
discerned in it a coded homage to George Bizos
and Bram Fischer
, who defended Nelson Mandela
. Walder, Dennis. “Nadine Gordimer obituary”. theguardian.com, 14 July 2014. |
Travel | Dervla Murphy | The bicycle trip through Africa (four months that took her from Kenya through Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia to Zimbabwe) that turned out to be an investigation into AIDS was first... |