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Essential Gesture, The (Collection)
 

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Short Stories
Politics
Autobiography/ Memoirs

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1988-00-00 Jonathan Cape  

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This collection of 23 essays on South Africa, from the 1950s to the 1980s, are divided into three parts: A Writer in South Africa (about the experience of living under a repugnant political regime), A Writer in Africa (travel pieces), and Living in the Interregnum (which vividly illuminates the writer's role in a society that practices apartheid and censorship).

Contents:

•Beginnings
◦A Bolter and the Invincible Summer
•A Writer in South Africa
◦Where Do Wishes Fit In?
◦Chief Luthuli
◦Great Problems in the Street
◦Censored, Banned, Gagged
◦Why Did Bram Fischer Choose Jail?
◦One Man Living Through It
◦Speak Out: The Necessity for Protest
◦A Writer's Freedom
◦Selecting My Stories
◦Letter from Johannesburg, 1976
◦Relevance and Commitment
•A Writer in Africa
◦Egypt Revisited
◦The Congo River
◦Madagascar
◦Pula!
◦Merci Dieu, It Changes
◦A Vision of Two Blood-Red Suns
•Living in the Interregnum
◦The Unkillable Word
◦Censors and Unconfessed History
◦Living in the Interregnum
◦The Essential Gesture
◦Letter from Johannesburg, 1985
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