a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Volume 35, Issue 3 (2020)

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The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical

Introduction

Introduction
The Textualities of the AutobiogrAfrical
Sally Ann Murray, F. Fiona Moolla & Mathilda Slabbert
Pages: 519-532
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Loss and Trauma in Ugandan Girls’ Ex-Child-Soldier Autobiographical Narratives: The Case of Grace Akallo and China Keitetsi
Florence Ebila
Pages: 533-555
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Cluster: Life Narratives of African Political Womanhood

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African Political Womanhood in Autobiography: Possible Interpretive Paradigms
Marciana Nafula Were
Pages: 557-577
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Taboos and Their Subversion: Reconceptualizing the Proper African Woman in Oluremi Obasanjo’s Autobiography Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo
Folasade Hunsu
Pages: 579-598
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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The Burden of Representation in the Life Stories of Wambui Waiyaki Otieno and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Grace A. Musila
Pages: 599-621
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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The (Critical-Creative) Process

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Bending Bodies, Signing Words: Reshaping a Father and a Feminist Practice
Nadia Sanger
Pages: 623-644
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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One Moment, Three Bullets, a Lifetime
Gillian Rennie
Pages: 645-665
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Reflection

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Complicating Apartheid Resistance Histories by Means of South African Autobiographies
Annie Gagiano
Pages: 667-689
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Cluster: South Africa

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Rewriting the Colonial Gaze? Black Middle-Class Constructions of Africa in Sihle Khumalo’s Travel Writing
Isaac Ndlovu
Pages: 691-710
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Privacy, Authorship, and Ownership: On Reading André Brink and Ingrid Jonker’s Letters in Flame in the Snow
Louise Viljoen
Pages: 711-728
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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The Matriarchive as Life Knowledge in Es’kia Mphahlele’s African Humanism
Uhuru Portia Phalafala
Pages: 729-747
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Cluster: Queering African Lives

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African Queer Autobiographics: Drama, Disclosure, and Pedagogy
Taiwo Osinubi
Pages: 749-770
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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“I am berated as a Communist because I sometimes wear a red tie”: Not Forgetting the Awkward Afrikaner, Dr Petronella “Nell” van Heerden
Christi van der Westhuizen
Pages: 771-788
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Girls, Autobiography, Media: Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies
Emma Maguire Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 216 pp., $99.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-3-3197-4236-6
Ina C. Seethaler
Pages: 789-793
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Rev. of Autofiction in English
HYWEL DIX (Ed.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 283 pp., $139.99 (Hardback), ISBN 978-3-3198-9901-5
Alison Gibbons
Pages: 793-796
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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Notes on Contributors
Pages: 797-800
Published online: 21 Aug 2020
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