Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading
| dc.contributor.author | Lalu, Premesh | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 22/12/2011 16:13 | |
| dc.date.available | 22/12/2011 16:13 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper gathers together deliberations surrounding Steve Biko�s I Write What I Like as it simultaneously registers the critical importance of the text as an incomplete history. Rather than presupposing the text as a form of biography or following a trend of translating Biko into a prophet of reconciliation, I argue that the text leads us towards the postcolonial problematic of self-writing. That problematic, I argue, names the encounter between self-writing and an apparatus of reading. The paper stages the encounter as a way to make explicit the text�s postcolonial interests and to mark the onset of an incomplete history. This, I argue incidentally, is where the postcolonial critic may set to work to finish the critique of apartheid. Incomplete histories call attention to how that which is unintelligible in a text makes an authoritative reading difficult. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | http://currentwriting.ukzn.ac.za/ | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lalu, P, (2004). Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 16 (1): 107-126 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1013-929X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/298 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://currentwriting.ukzn.ac.za/ | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | TRUE | |
| dc.publisher | Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN. Publisher granted permission for inclusion of this file in the Repository. | |
| dc.source | http://currentwriting.ukzn.ac.za/ | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
| dc.subject | Steve Biko | en_US |
| dc.subject | Self-writing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Reading | en_US |
| dc.subject | Postcolonialism | en_US |
| dc.title | Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |