Lauretta Ngcobo: Writing as the Practice of Freedom
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Lauretta Ngcobo:

Writing as the Practice of Freedom

Barbara Boswell, editor
Individual: $45.00
ISBN: 978-0-7969-2624-1
When Lauretta Ngcobo died in 2015, Africa lost a significant literary talent, freedom fighter, and feminist voice. Ngcobo was one of the pioneering writers who first published novels in English from the vantage point of black women. Along with Bessie Head and Miriam Tlali, she showed the world, through her fiction, what it was like to be a black woman in apartheid South Africa.

Barbara Boswell deftly traces Ngcobo's life, presents excerpts from her literary work, and assesses the nature of her enduring legacy.
Barbara Boswell is associate professor of English literary studies at the University of Cape Town. She is author of And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels and Feminism and Grace: A Novel, winner of the University of Johannesburg Debut Creative Writing Prize.

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