Mother to Mother von Sindiwe Magona. Königs Erläuterungen Spezial.. Patrick Neill Charles

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СКАЧАТЬ TITLE 1998 Mother to Mother 2006 The Best Meal Ever 2008 Beauty’s Gift

      Mother to Mother was Magona’s first published novel, and it remains her most famous and successful work. The Best Meal Ever is set in a South African township and is about a girl having to look after her younger siblings. Beauty’s Gift is a novel about a group of women and how they deal with the HIV/AIDS-related death of one of their circle of friends.

      Short story collections

PUBLICATION DATE	TITLE
1991	Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night
1996	Push-push! And Other Stories

      As with her novels, Magona’s short stories draw on her personal experiences and are all concerned with South African social issues, in particular those affecting women.

      Poetry

PUBLICATION DATE	TITLE
2009	Please, Take Photographs

      Autobiographies

PUBLICATION DATE	TITLE
1990	To My Children’s Children
1992	Forced to Grow

      To My Children’s Children, Magona’s first published work, is an open letter to her grandchildren in which she tells the story of her own life up to the age of 23, and shares what she can of Xhosa culture and traditions. She presents herself explicitly as a “Xhosa grandmother”, and the book is of interest as a personal memoir, as an eyewitness account of the apartheid era, as an anthropological study of Xhosa tribal customs and folklore, and as a study of how women of all ages suffer and are oppressed under patriarchal social systems. Forced to Grow continues her autobiography from the age of 23 on.

      Biography

PUBLICATION DATE	TITLE
2012	From Robben Island to Bishop’s Court

      This is a biography of Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, who was a pioneering anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela also spent many years in prison. After being released from jail he continued to work to end apartheid, and campaigned for the rights of HIV positive people, equal rights for women and protecting the poor and dispossessed.

      Children’s books

PUBLICATION DATE	TITLE
Not yet published	The Stranger and His Flute,
	Greedy Man, Kind Rock
	Nokulunga, Mother of Goodness
	Stronger Than Lion
	Buhle, the Calf of Many Colours
	The Woman on the Moon

      Magona has written more than 100 books for children over the years. This forthcoming series of books[9] for children will be published in four South African languages as well as in English. These tales are intended by Magona to promote reading in general – she worries that South Africa lacks a culture of reading – as well as supporting and promoting literacy in African languages.

3.	Textanalyse und -interpretation

3.1	Entstehung und Quellen

      ZUSAMMENFASSUNG

      Mother to Mother is a fictionalised account of the murder in August 1993 of American student Amy Biehl in the South African township of Gugulethu (Guguletu in the novel, also known as Guguleto). It draws heavily on author Sindiwe Magona’s own life: she was born in Gugululu, lived in Guguletu, worked as a maid in white family’s homes, and lived through the apartheid era and its aftermath.

Guguletu

      Mandisa describes the township (see pp. 27–34, for example) as she experienced it, having been forced to move there with her family when she was 10, and talks about the mistakes that had been made in how it was set up – mistakes that range from the evil to the incompetent.

      The name Guguletu is a shortened form of the Xhosa phrase “igugu lethu”, which means “our pride” – a name which acquires a particularly bitter irony, both historically and in the fictional context of the novel. The township was established in the 1960s and was infamous for its high levels of unrest and crime. As presented in the novel, it is a crowded place with high unemployment, a lot of poverty and social neglect, and an intimidating, militarised police presence. Mandisa describes a depressing environment with little support for young people, who are left to wander the streets feeling frustrated and neglected. As well as being the site of the actual murder of Amy Biehl in 1993, Guguletu is a microcosm of South Africa’s racial and social troubles, and for this reason it is one of the most significant original inspirations for the novel. With its extraordinarily high levels of violent crime and racially segregated, socially troubled population, the township provides a grimly ideal setting for the author’s intentions, as outlined in her preface, to look at what lessons can be learned from a tragedy like the murder of Amy Biehl, and to more closely examine the failures of a society which is corrupted by injustice and brutality.

      The author Sindiwe Magona grew up in Guguletu, and she would have seen and experienced the apartheid era in its entirety. Her familiarity with the township is evident in her strong evocation of its history and chaotic life.

The murder of Amy Biehl

      Athol Fugard says he was sickened last summer when he learned of the murder of Amy Elizabeth Biehl, the white Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach who was pulled from her car and stabbed by a mob screaming anti-white slogans in the black township СКАЧАТЬ