Reading with empathy: Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother

Feminist Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 181-195

  Whitehead, Anne ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amy Biehl; cross racial; empathy; fiction; Gobodo Madikizela; Magona; South Africa; transnational; Truth and Reconciliation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865242107     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: 17412773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700112442645     Document Type: Article

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