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

Writing as Resistance charts a journey through the inner workings of apartheid, through encounters imprisonment, exile, homecoming that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. This is a study of linked encounters through life stories, which provide a window between apartheid as ideology and as lived experience, and are portrayed as ultimately playing a part in transforming defeat into victory, oppression into democracy through Writing as Resistance

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