Writing As Resistance ― Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa

Writing as Resistance charts the inner workings of apartheid, through the encounters - imprisonment, exile, and homecoming - that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. Author Paul Gready demonstrates the transformative nature of autobiographical narrative as resistance in the context of political struggle. This multidisciplinary study addresses a range of important contemporary topics: migration, postcolonialism, globalization, nationalism, human rights, and political democratization, among others.

Paul Gready is a lecturer in human rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.