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First College Year Common Reading 2017: South African Memoirs & Fiction

South African Memoirs & Narratives (at the Library)

Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
Brooklyn College Library Stacks
DT1974 .A3 2010

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
Brooklyn College Library Stacks
DT779 .95 .M38 A34 1987

My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
Brooklyn College Library Stacks
DT763 .B48

I Write What I Like by Steve Biko
Brooklyn College Library  Stacks
PR9369.3 .P37 C7 2003

Reconstructing Trauma and Meaning: Life Narratives of Survivors of Political Violence During Apartheid in South Africa by Ileana Carmen Rogobete (via Ebook Central)

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 by Winnie Mandela (via Ebook Central)

South African Fiction (at the Library)

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Brooklyn College Library Stacks
PR9369.3 .P37 C7 2003

No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer
Brooklyn College Library Stacks
PR9369.3 .G6 N58 2012

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Brooklyn College Library Stacks
PR9369.3 .C58 D5 1999

July's People by Nadine Gordimer
Brooklyn College Library Stacks
PR9369.3 .G6 J8 1982