Miriam Tlali
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Miriam Tlali is a South Africa
n novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish a novel
., Muriel at Metropolitan. She was also one of the first to write about Soweto
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Tlali wrote Muriel at Metropolitan (1979, originally Between Two Worlds), a semiautobiographical
work. She later wrote other books such as Amandla (1980), Mihloti (1984), and Footprints in the Quag (1989).
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
., Muriel at Metropolitan. She was also one of the first to write about Soweto
Soweto
Soweto is a lower-class-populated urban area of the city of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for South Western Townships...
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Tlali wrote Muriel at Metropolitan (1979, originally Between Two Worlds), a semiautobiographical
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
work. She later wrote other books such as Amandla (1980), Mihloti (1984), and Footprints in the Quag (1989).
Further reading
- Bernth Linfors and Reinhard Sander, Twentieth century Caribbean and Black African writers. 1996. Published by Detroit: Gale Research.
- Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jane Jolly, Writing South Africa: Literature, apartheid and democracy 1970 - 1995. 1998. Published by Cambridge (UK) and Cambridge University Press (New York).
- Christina Cullhed, Grappling with Patriarchies: Narrative Strategies of Resistance in Miriam Tlali's Writings. Doctoral dissertation. 2006. Published by Uppsala University.
- Sarah Nuttall, 'Literature and the Archive: The Biography of Texts'. Refiguring the Archive. Ed.Carolyn Hamilton. Cape Town: David Philip, 2002.