Written Out - The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala

This biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South Africa and colonial Swaziland (now Eswatini) shows that her posthumous obscurity has been no accident.

About the author

Joel Cabrita is Susan Ford Dorsey Director of the Center for African Studies and an associate professor of African history at Stanford University, and a senior research associate in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Johannesburg. Her work focuses on religion, gender, and the politics of knowledge production in Africa and globally. She is the author of Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church and The People's Zion: Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement.

Summary

This biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South Africa and colonial Swaziland (now Eswatini) shows that her posthumous obscurity has been no accident.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Cabrita
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2023
• EAN: 9780821425077
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2507-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries