Miriam Tlali : writing freedom

CONTENTS
Dedication iii
Timeline of the life of Miriam Tlali vii
Acknowledgements xi
PART 1: HER LIFE
Introduction 3
Tlali’s world 9
Tlali’s creative process 15
Imagination, hope and liberation 18
PART 3: HER LEGACY
Introduction 159
Staffrider and Black Consciousness: Gendered blackness 161
Writing women 162
Race, class and gender 165
Boundaries and belonging 166
Resisting erasure 167
Writing the nation and articulating identity 169
Reappraising Tlali 171
Tlali as generational pioneer 172
A black feminist writer’s ambivalent locations 174
Tlali as a key feminist thinker on feminist community 176
Tlali as a key feminist thinker against rape 178
Tlali as a key feminist thinker on black subjectivity 179
Tlali and Staffrider/Biack Consciousness literature 180
Writing as activism 184
Staffrider women 188
BIBLIOGRAPHY 193
ABOUT THE VOLUME EDITOR 193
INDEX 194
PART 2: HER VOICE: Selected writings of MiriamTlali
Introduction » < 25
Interviews 33
• Cecily Lockett interview with Miriam Tlali 33
• Miriam Tlali interview with Lilian Ngoyi 44
• Miriam Tlali interview with Annanias 48
• Miriam Tlali interview with Flora Mooketsane 52
Novels 55
• Chapters 5 and 6 from Muriel at Metropolitan 55
• Chapters 6 and 7 from Between Two Worlds 64
• Chapter 16 from Amandla 74
Short stories 83
• The Haunting Melancholy of Klipvoordam (short story published
in Staffrider and later Mihloti) 83
• Soweto Hijack: A story of our times 94
Play: Crimen Injuria (three-act play) 103
Essays 138
• Quagmires and quicksands \' 138
• Remove the chains 146