Imbrication: Reading a South African life

  • Catherine Burns University of Pretoria
Keywords: reading life, knowledge, South African life

Abstract

The temporal context opens in the early years of World War II, in a small village in the then Union of South Africa, and tracks a seven-decade search for meaning and truth by the author. Manganyi is a pre-eminent reader of the world and its texts – embodied, scripted, literary, critical and performed. The method of life, exemplified in this memoir, is of the reader, in Alberto Manguel’s explication of the term, with reading as an active, archaeological, erudite, committed, passionate and dialogical skill.

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Author Biography

Catherine Burns, University of Pretoria

Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, & the Department of History
University of Pretoria
Pretoria

Published
2024-02-08
How to Cite
Burns, C. (2024). Imbrication: Reading a South African life. PINS-Psychology in Society, 52(1), 80-84. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-8708/2016/n52a6
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Briefings