The memory of birds in times of revolution

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Title:

Author:

Breytenbach, Breyten.

ISBN:

9780151001682

Personal Author:

Breytenbach, Breyten.

Publication Information:

New York : Harcourt Brace, c1996.

Physical Description:

169 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Writing the Darkening Mirror -- Tortoise Steps -- Nelson Mandela Is Free! -- Fragments from a Growing Awareness of Unfinished Truths -- The Long March -- Cadavre Exquis -- Painting and Writing for Africa -- An Open Letter to Nelson Mandela, 16 April 1991 -- An Open Letter to Nelson Mandela, 17 May 1994 -- Thinking Fire -- Cold Turkey -- The Lines Have Fallen unto Me in Beautiful Places -- Othering -- Africa on My Mind -- The Shattered Dream -- Dog's Bone -- Upon Being Invited to a Conference on Justice and Reconciliation -- A Reading of Place -- To the Invisible Guests -- The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution.

Abstract:

The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution is a collection of searing new essays by the acclaimed author of Return to Paradise and The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist. Essaying his homeland, Africa, at the end of the twentieth century, Breyten Breytenbach offers penetrating insights on a variety of topics: the release of Nelson Mandela from prison ("Nelson Mandela is Free!"); the early days of Mandela's presidency and its failures (the controversial "Open Letter to Nelson Mandela"); the geography of the writer's imagination ("Tortoise Steps"); death as the mother of beauty ("Cadavre Exquis"); the true meaning of reconciliation and reform after apartheid ("Fragments from a Growing Awareness of Unfinished Truths"); and much more.

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The Memory of Birds in Time Revolutions is a collection of searching new essays by the acclaimed author of Returen to Paradise and True Confessions of an Albion Terrorist. Essaying his homeland, Africa, at the end of the twentieth century, Breyten Breytenbach offers penetrating insights on a variety of topics: the release of Nelson Mandela from prison ("Nelson Mandela is Free"); the early days of Mandela's presidency, and its failures (the controversial "Open Letter to Nelson Mandela"); thegeography of the writer's imagination ("Tortoise Steps"); death as the mother of beauty ("Cadavre Exquis"); the true meaning of reconciliation and reform after apartheid ("Fragments from a Growing Awareness of Unfinished Truths"); and much more.