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'A Thinning of Skin': Writing On and Against Whiteness
2013
Life Writing
This essay considers how women's life-writing has offered a situated mode of resistance to dominant racial regimes in the US and South Africa. Based on a reading of diverse texts, it employs concepts such as entanglement, disentanglement, estrangement and dislocation as keys to understand the relationship between blackness and whiteness, not in abstract, theoretical terms but as a complex configuration of meanings arising from and within specific circumstances. The essay examines the technique
doi:10.1080/14484528.2013.765795
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