Memory and the construction of identities. South Asian diaspora in Africa: collective and individual memory in Fatima Meer's and Sita Gandhi's texts / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Revisiting the past: memory and identity in Elleke Boehmer's Bloodlines and Zoë Wicomb's David's story and Playing in the light / Fiona McCann -- Truth, reconciliation, resistance and reconstruction. Lyric monsters: the humanizing process of lyric language in Antjie Krog's Country of my skull / Okla Elliot -- Reconstruction and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Denise Handlarski -- Transcending apartheid: empathy and the search for redemption / Imke Brust -- Damaged narratives, silenced voices and race. Mut(e)ilations: the loss of voice and the voice of loss: memory, reconstruction and reconciliation in South African literature / Deborah Donig -- Secrets and lies: trauma, resistance and reconciliation postponed in Zoë Wicombs David's story / Jane Poyner -- Driving the devil into the ground: settler myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley / John Highfield -- Trauma, confession and autobiographies. Transmogrifying the traumatic into the democratic ideal in autobiographical cultural memory: Nelson Mandela's The long walk to freedom / Mike Kgomotso Masemola -- White lies, white truth: confession and childhood in white women's narratives / Georgina Horrell -- Reconciling citizenship, AIDs, and gayness in post-apartheid South Africa / John C. Hawley
