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Burge, Kimberly.
Subjects
Young women, Black -- South Africa -- Social conditions.
Young women, Black -- Education -- South Africa.
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use -- South Africa.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- South Africa.
Post-apartheid era -- South Africa.
South Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Burge, Kimberly.
Young women, Black -- South Africa -- Social conditions.
Young women, Black -- Education -- South Africa.
Creative writing -- Therapeutic use -- South Africa.
Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- South Africa.
Post-apartheid era -- South Africa.
South Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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The born frees : writing with the girls of Gugulethu / Kimberly Burge.
by
Burge, Kimberly.
W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Call #:
305.2422 B954b
Subjects
Young
women
,
Black
--
South
Africa
--
Social conditions.
Young
women
,
Black
--
Education
--
South
Africa
.
Creative writing
--
Therapeutic use
--
South
Africa
.
Creative writing
--
Study and teaching
--
South
Africa
.
Post-apartheid era
--
South
Africa
.
South
Africa
--
Social conditions
--
21st century.
ISBN:
9780393239164 (hc.)
0393239160 (hc.)
Description:
xii, 348 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-348).
Contents:
Prologue: in my own being
--
Voices of the girls. Our pride
--
OVCs
--
Disclosure
--
Amazw'Entombi
--
You strike a woman, you strike a rock. A force to be reckoned with
--
Paradise road
--
You can wear your Gucci or your Prada, but I don't have to feel insecure just because I'm wearing my Mr. Price
--
Do you even ask yourself who is she?
--
All these thoughts in my head and heart
--
Be you to the full
--
And guess what? I'm still alive
--
Make the choice to life and not just exist
--
Ubuntu in abundance: Gugulethu, two years later. As old or as
young
as democracy
--
Still trying to find my way through
--
Epilogue: youth day.
Summary:
"A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first
South
African generation "born free." Born into post-apartheid
South
Africa
, the
young
women
of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges. Their families and communities have been ravaged by poverty, violence, sexual abuse, and AIDS. Yet, as Kimberly Burge discovered when she set up a writing group in the township of Gugulethu, the spirit of these girls outshines their circumstances. Girls such as irrepressible Annasuena, whose late mother was one of
South
Africa
's most celebrated singers; bubbly Sharon, already career-bound; and shy Ntombi, determined to finish high school and pursue further studies, find reassurance and courage in writing. Together they also find temporary escape from the travails of their lives, anxieties beyond boyfriends and futures: for some of them, worries that include HIV medication regimens, conflicts with indifferent guardians and struggles with depression. They are driven by a desire to claim their own voices and define themselves. A testimony to the necessity of empowering girls, and to the role writing can play in reimagining one's own life. Kimberly Burge is a freelance journalist and a former Fulbright Scholar in
South
Africa
. She lives in Washington, D.C."--Provided by publisher.
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