‘In an Attempt to Erase’: Breyten Breytenbach’s Prison Writing and the Need to Re-Cover
In Breyten Breytenbach’s work, writing is seen either as a revelation or as a kind of obfuscation, new meanings being invoked in order to cover blurred sub-texts. In his True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Breytenbach took into account the fact that most of the texts he managed to write during...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Résumé: | In Breyten Breytenbach’s work, writing is seen either as a revelation or as a kind of obfuscation, new meanings being invoked in order to cover blurred sub-texts. In his True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, Breytenbach took into account the fact that most of the texts he managed to write during his prison years in South Africa had been destroyed by the apartheid regime and that he had to go on writing both before and after being freed in order to make up for (or to ‘recover’) what had be... |
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