A life's mosaic : the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
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A life's mosaic : the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
（Perspectives on Southern Africa, 49）
University of California Press, 1993
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京都大学 大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科アフリカ専攻
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"Like Trotsky, I did not leave home with the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I come from a family of landed gentry ...[and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of struggle and uncertainty." - from the Preface. Born into the small social elite of black South Africa, Phyllis Ntantala did not face the grinding poverty so familiar to other South African blacks. Instead, her struggle was that of a creative, articulate woman seeking fulfillment and justice in a land that tried to deny her both.The widow of Xhosa writer and historian A.C. Jordan and mother of African National Congress leader Z. Pallo Jordan, she and her family experienced a period of tremendous change in South Africa and also in the United States, where they moved during the 1960s. She discovers similarities in the two countries, including the arrogance of power. Anchored in history and culture, "A Life's Mosaic" sharply reveals the world and the people of South Africa.
As the story of a political exile, it represents the dislocations that have caused universal suffering in the second half of the twentieth century. Phyllis Ntantala discusses the cruelty of racism, the cynicism of political solutions, and the hopes of those who live in both a world of exile and a world of dreams.
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