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Stephen Clingman
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apartheid era reflections
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exploring belonging
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growing up under segregation
healing fractured identity
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human experience of imperfection
human resilience in divided societies
identity shaped by place
inner sight versus outer sight
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lessons of imperfection
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personal encounters with injustice
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psychological impact of appearance
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reconciling past and present
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South Africa
South African personal history
storytelling across continents
trauma shaping identity
understanding self in fractured world
universal story of acceptance
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781625342287
  • Weight: 402g
  • Dimensions: 157 x 233mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description
When Stephen Clingman was two, he underwent an operation to remove a birthmark under his right eye. The operation failed, and the birthmark returned, but in somewhat altered form. In this captivating book, Clingman takes the fact of that mark - its appearance, disappearance, and return - as a guiding motif of memory.

Not only was the operation unsuccessful, it affected his vision, and his eyes came to see differently from each other. Birthmark explores the questions raised by living with divided vision in a divided world - the world of South Africa under apartheid, where every view was governed by the markings of birth, the accidents of color, race, and skin. But what were the effects on the mind? Clingman's book engages a number of questions. How, in such circumstances, can we come to a deeper kind of vision? How can we achieve wholeness and acceptance? How can we find our place in the midst of turmoil and change?

In a beguiling narrative set on three continents, this is a story that is personal, painful, comic, and ultimately uplifting: a book not so much of the coming of age but the coming of perspective.
About Stephen Clingman
Stephen Clingman is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

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