Mother to Mother
A Fiction, Africa, Academic book. Traffic is light as she leaves Mowbray. So is her heart. Light....
Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice. Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the nation's first ever democratic elections in 1993, died just a few yards away from her own permanent residence in Guguletu, Capetown. She then learned that one of the boys held responsible for the killing was in fact her neighbor's son. Magona began to imagine how easily it might have been her own son caught up in the wave of violence that day. The book is based on this real-life incident, and takes the form of an epistle to Amy Biehl's mother. The murderer's mother,...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780807009499 / 807009490
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Traffic is light as she leaves Mowbray. So is her heart. Light. Soon. Soon, she will be home. Strange how she was able to bear it -- bear being away. Until now. With a day to go, it has suddenly become unbearable. Since that party on Saturday night. Smashing send-off these lovely people gave her. Really smashing. So, why is she feeling so blue? Ah, well, she thinks to herself, I've always had a problem, saying goodbye.She hardly has a moment to breathe through the day. So busy. Her very last day at this place she has called home these ten months past....
Good. Deals with similar issues that Cry, the Beloved Country treats, but from the perspective of someone from the city, not a village and from the perspective of a woman, not a man. These elements add in interesting ways to what Cry, the Beloved Country accomplished. 3.5 interesting story but too much explanation and unimportant bits The book was written by Magona only five years after the tragic murder of Amy Biehl took place in 1993 which the story is based on. Amy was a white college student who was brutally murdered by black students in the township Gugulethu.The book is from the mother of the fictional murderer Mxolisi to the mother of the victim Amy. It also...
