Miriam Tlali Writing freedom

Miriam Tlali was a novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and activist against apartheid and patriarchal confinement. She worked consistently to build literary and political community, was one of the founders of Staffrider magazine, promoting the work of younger writers, and was the most prolific writer of her time.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 148mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

240

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2562-6

Publish Year:

January 2021

Rights:

World Rights

Part 1 Her life

Introduction

Tlali and Staffrider/Black Consciousness

Literature

Tlali is born

Writing as activism

Part 2 Her voice (Selected writings of Miriam Tlali)

Introduction

Interviews

Cecily Lockett Interview with Miriam Tlali

Miriam Tlali interview with Lilian Ngoyi

Miriam Tlali interview with Annanias?

Miriam Tlali Interview with Flora Mooketsane

Novels

Chapters x and y from Muriel at Metropolitan

Chapters x and y from Between two Worlds

Chapter x from Amandla

Short stories

The haunting melancholy of Klipvoordam (short story published in Staffrider and later Mihloti) (p.92)

Soweto Hijack (short story)

Play

Crimean Injuria (three-act play)

Essays

Quicksands and Quagmires

Remove the chains

Note by Barbara Boswell on Amandla

Part 3 Her legacy

Introduction

Staffrider and Black Consciousness: Gendered

Blackness

Writing women

Race, class and gender

Boundaries and belonging

Resisting erasure

Writing the nation and articulating identity

Reappraising Tlali

Tlali as a generational pioneer

A black feminist writer’s ambivalent locations

Tlali as a key feminist thinker on feminist community

Tlali as a key feminist thinker against rape

Tlali as a key thinker on black subjectivity

Tlali and Black Consciousness literature

Writing as activism

Staffrider women

Pumla Dineo Gqola is Research Professor at the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University. She is the author of five books including What is slavery to me? Postcolonial/Slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa (Wits University Press, 2010), the 2016 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction winner Rape: A South African Nightmare (MF Books, 2015) and Reflecting Rogue: Inside the mind of a feminist (MF Books, 2017).