Dark Corners
Terence Ranger, 9 July 1987
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself
by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin.
Harvard, 306 pp., £29.95, July 1987,9780674447455 Show More
by Harriet Jacobs, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin.
Harvard, 306 pp., £29.95, July 1987,
The Spirit and the Drum: A Memoir of Africa
by Edith Turner.
University of Arizona Press, 165 pp., £15.95, July 1987,0 8165 1009 1 Show More
by Edith Turner.
University of Arizona Press, 165 pp., £15.95, July 1987,
Kaffir Boy: Growing out of Apartheid
by Mark Mathabane.
Bodley Head, 354 pp., £12.95, April 1987,0 370 31058 6 Show More
by Mark Mathabane.
Bodley Head, 354 pp., £12.95, April 1987,
“... personal memoir’ which ‘re-creates the ritual and ceremonial life of the Ndembu people’. Mark Mathabane’s autobiographical Kaffir Boy, which describes growing up in Alexandra township near Johannesburg between 1960 and 1978, is offered both as ‘a unique and remarkable memoir’ and as a revelation of ‘how a black and his family suffer the ... ”
