Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments vii -- Introduction 1 -- A. Memory and the Construction of Identities 9 -- Chapter 1 South Asian Diaspora in Africa: Collective and individual memory in Fatima Meer's and Sita Gandhi's texts - JASPAL KAUR SINGH 11 -- Chapter 2 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 27 -- B. Truth, Reconciliation, Resistance and Reconstruction 41 -- Chapter 3 Lyric Monsters: The Humanizing Process of Lyric Language in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull - OKLA ELLIOT 43 -- Chapter 4 Reconstruction and Resistance in the Poetry of Gcina Mhlophe - DENISE HANDLARSKI 57 -- Chapter 5 Transcending Apartheid: Empathy and the Search for Redemption - IMKE BRUST 77 -- C. Damaged Narratives, Silenced Voices and Race 101 -- Chapter 6 Mut(e)ilations: The Loss of Voice and the Voice of Loss: Memory, Reconstruction and Reconciliation in South African Literature - DEBORAH DONIG 103 -- Chapter 7 Secrets and Lies: Trauma, Resistance and Reconciliation Postponed in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story - JANE POYNER 121 -- Chapter 8 Driving the Devil into the Ground: Settler Myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley - JOHN HIGHFIELD 131 -- D. Trauma, confession and autobiographies 149 -- Chapter 9 Transmogrifying the Traumatic into the Democratic Ideal in Autobiographical Cultural Memory: Nelson Mandela's The Long Walk to Freedom - MIKE KGOMOTSO MASEMOLA 151 -- Chapter 10 White Lies, White Truth: Confession and Childhood in White Women's Narratives - GEORGINA HORRELL 169 -- Chapter 11 Reconciling Citizenship, AIDS, and Gayness in Post-Apartheid South Africa - JOHN C. HAWLEY 187 -- Notes on Contributors 203.