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Gready, Paul. 2003. Writing As Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa.

Graham, Shane

Gready, Paul. 2003. WRITING AS RESISTANCE: LIFE STORIES OF IMPRISONMENT, EXILE, AND HOMECOMING FROM APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 341 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Sanders, Mark. 2002. COMPLICITIES: THE INTELLECTUAL AND APARTHEID. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 274 pp. $21.95 (paper).

The experience of imprisonment is central to the political history of apartheid and postapartheid South Africa, and the documentation of that experience has long been a cornerstone of South African literary production. Prison memoirs and poetry chapbooks number in the ...