In My Heart (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780857428929)

One of few books translated into English from Sesotho, In My Heart introduces a long-neglected voice to global readership.

Elsewhere Texts, edited by Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak and Hosam Aboul-Ela, presents radical new engagements with non-European literary cultures. This volume, the latest in this ambitious series, is a brilliant collection of essays originally written in Sesotho by Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng. Often confined to the role of "native informants" in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writers working in African languages laid the foundation for the politics and poetics of decolonization and are legendary among their own communities of readers, though their work remains little known elsewhere. In My Heart belongs to this tradition of colonial renegades. Writing in the 1950s during the cataclysmic events of apartheid that were transforming life in South Africa, Mofokeng offers a series of meditations that provide his readers with a Sesotho worldview outside the categories authorized by colonial knowledge. In My Heart, expertly translated by Nhlanhla Maake, introduces a significant African thinker's influential work to a global readership.

Author: Sofonia Machabe Mofokeng
ISBN-10: 0857428926
ISBN-13: 9780857428929
Publisher: Seagull Books
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2021
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d