bokomslag Song for Sarah
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Song for Sarah

Jonathan Jansen Naomi Jansen

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  • 152 sidor
  • 2017
In this, Jansen's most personal and intimate book to date, South Africa's beloved Professor contemplates the stereotypes and stigma so readily applied to Cape Flats mothers as bawdy, lusty and gap-toothed - and offers this endearing antidote as a praise song to mothers everywhere who raise families and build communities in difficult places. As a young man, Jansen questioned how mothers managed to raise children in trying circumstances - and then realised that the answer was right in front of him in the form of Sarah Jansen, his own mother. Tracing her early life in Montagu and the consequences of apartheid's forced removals, Jansen unpacks how strong women managed to not only keep families together, but raise them with integrity. With his trademark delicacy, humour and frankness, Jansen follows his mother's life story as a young nurse and mother to five children, and shows how mothers dealt with their pasts, organised their homes, made sense of politics, managed affection, communicated core values - how they led their lives. As a balance to his own recollections, Jansen has called on his sister, Naomi, to offer her own insights and memories, adding special value to this touching personal memoir.
  • Författare: Jonathan Jansen, Naomi Jansen
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781928257295
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 152
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-05-01
  • Förlag: Bookstorm