Lie on Your Wounds

The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Robert Sobukwe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

592 Seiten

2019
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-240-8 (ISBN)

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Comprising approximately 300 letters, this book provides access to the voice of Robert Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource of Sobukwe's voice that exists: his prison letters. Not only do the letters evince Sobukwe's storytelling abilities, they convey the complexity of a man who defied easy categorization.

Selection of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's letters from prison in opposition to South African apartheid
This book collates nearly 300 prison letters to and from Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, inspirational political leader and first President of the Pan-Africanist Congress. These letters are testimony to the desolate conditions of his imprisonment and to his unbending commitment to the cause of African liberation.
The memory of Sobukwe has been sadly neglected in post- apartheid South Africa. With the changing political climate, the decline of the African National Congress's power, the re- emergence of Black Consciousness, and the growth of student protests, Sobukwe is being looked to once again.

Derek Hook is a professor in Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA and an extraordinary professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is one of the editors of the Palgrave Lacan Series and also of the four-volume Reading Lacan's Écrits (2018). Along with Sheldon George he edited the collection Lacan on Race (2021), and along with Leswin Laubscher and Miraj Desai he edited Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology (2022). He is also the editor of a first volume of Sobukwe letters, Lie on Your Wounds: The prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (2019). Robert Sobukwe founded the Pan Africanist Congress in 1959 and was its president. He was imprisoned on Robben Island from 1960-1969, mostly in solitary confinement, and was considered such a threat by the government that its parliament enacted the 'Sobukwe clause', which authorised the arbitrary extension of his imprisonment. After his release in 1969, he lived in Kimberley with family under house arrest. He died in 1978 from lung cancer.

Preface by Otua Sobukwe

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Letters

1960–1962

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

Address at Fort Hare College Delivered by Mr Sobukwe, October 21, 1949

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	11 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	898 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-77614-240-3 / 1776142403
ISBN-13	978-1-77614-240-8 / 9781776142408
Zustand	Neuware