FEATURING - Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile edited by Lauretta Ngcobo

The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile edited by Lauretta Ngcobo.

In Prodigal Daughters, seventeen women tell their intensely personal stories of exile, re-imagining and reliving a past for the sake of fixing in memory narratives that would surely disappear in a country still struggling to shake off the shackles of racial inequality and oppression. Stories of acceptance or rejection in host countries and those of homecoming read like bittersweet memories of survival, longing and intrigue. For many of these women, a life in exile enabled their growing realisation that apartheid was just one facet of oppression in the world. It connected with much broader struggles for justice and human rights.

Catalogue Access: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/793219831

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.