Lizzy Attree

Gebundenes Buch

Blood on the Page

Interviews with African Authors writing about HIV/AIDS

Beschreibung

The fourteen interviews in this book form an unprecedented wealth of material on authors' responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe. They comprise a valuable archive which documents and contextualises the variety of views and opinions of different authors on their often ground-breaking choices in writing about HIV/AIDS.

Autor

Lizzy Attree holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, on The Literary Responses to HIV and AIDS from South Africa and Zimbabwe from 1990-2005 and organises literary tours of African writers in the UK. Most recently she ran the Caine Prize 10th Anniversary Tour funded by Arts Council England. She held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Programme for the Study of the Humanities in Africa, at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa in 2008-09 and is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC. She lives in London, is a founding member of ReadSA and would love to organise literary tours and festivals in African countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Unabridged ed
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 212mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781443820776
• ISBN-10: 1443820776
• Artikelnr.: 29845269