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	Sindiwe Magona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sindiwe Magona (born 1943) is a South African writer.
		A native of the Transkei, she grew up in a township near Cape Town, where she worked as a domestic and completed her secondary education by correspondence.
		Magona later graduated from the University of South Africa and earned a graduate degree from Columbia University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sindiwe_Magona (135 words)

	Magona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This part of the story ends with Magona at age 23, married, mother of three, but "sans husband." The grandmother, the narrator of the story, grew up in a village, where, as a child, she felt a real sense of belonging and happiness.
		Magona seems to be (in retrospect, anyway) speaking about her identity, her sense of self--a kind of fragmented, uncertain (postcolonial?) identity.
		Magona is caught in the gap, in the chasm, between past and present, between traditiona nd modernity, between two opposing systems of knowledge.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~carlisle/Postcolonial/Magona.html (1471 words)

	Sindiwe Magona page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sindiwe Magona was born in the Transkei (a former South African homeland) in 1943 and grew up in Cape Town's fl townships.
		Magona's works include two autobiographies, To My Children's Children and Forced to Grow, the short story collection, Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night, and the novel Mother to Mother (to be published by Beacon Press in August, 1999).
		Magona's autobiographies recount her impoverished childhood in South Africa, her own and her family's struggle to gain an education and employment, the abandonment by her husband of her and her three children, and her involvement in efforts to achieve racial harmony in South Africa.
	worldwriters.english.sbc.edu /magona.html (509 words)

	Interview - Sindieve Magona, Magona Gives Voice to a Forgotton Mother
		South African native Sindiwe Magona was so close to this tragedy that she felt compelled to tell her side of it in her first novel, Mother to Mother.
		Magona explores the range of possible emotions that could have been attributed to one of the mother's of Amy's killers without rationalizing or attempting to justify the murder.
		Magona began writing poetry in her late teens and was inspired to write the books that she wanted to read.
	www.writersofcolor.org /interview.html (852 words)

	Indigocafe.com :: Books :: Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona
		Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice.
		Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the nation's first ever democratic elections in 1993, died just a few yards away from her own permanent residence in Guguletu, Capetown.
		Magona began to imagine how easily it might have been her own son caught up in the wave of violence that day.
	www.indigocafe.com /bookstore/book.php?TC=225 (207 words)

	Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) Time of the Writer 2004
		Magona's writings recall her impoverished youth in South Africa, and her personal and political struggles, as a Black South African woman living under apartheid, to achieve racial and gender harmony in South Africa.
		In 1976 Magona's commitment as a community activist was rewarded when she was invited to the International Women's Tribunal on Crimes Against Women in Brussels, and in 1977 the Cape Argus, recognized her as one of the 10 finalists for its Woman of the Year Award.
		At the height of her political activism, however, she found that the pen is mightier than the sword, as her writing allows her to challenge or influence public opinion while empowering fl youths and especially women for the roles they should play in the new South Africa.
	www.cca.ukzn.ac.za /images/tow/TOW2004/Magona.htm (300 words)

	Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night
		Sindiwe Magona's long awaited collection of superb short stories brings a full range of South African women's expereience brilliantly to light.
		Sindiwe Magona grew up in Transkei village and spent her adolescence on the Cape Flats.
		Magona has given us endearing characters and probing stories that are as authoritative as they are unforgettable.
	www.africanmarket.com /front/product.asp?product=764 (233 words)

	Mother to Mother arguement
		Sindiwe Magona composed this novel in an attempt to express her sympathy to the Biehl family.
		Because Magona is a fl woman, originally from the South African village of Gugeletu, her voice is a powerful one, bridging the gap between race and culture.
		Magona’s claim is classified as cause/effect as it states that apartheid is the reason for the violence and unfortunate way of life for the fl members of South Africa.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxMzoyOjE&request=11436 (257 words)

	The Vanguard
		Magona emphasized the idea that the political system did not simply enforce the separation of races, but used this as means to prevent and stop fls from most meaningful life opportunities.
		Magona questions this in discussing the 1994 voting win; according to her, it is impossible to sustain a democracy in a country in which such a large number of citizens cannot read the voter registration card.
		Magona discussed her feelings of the breakdown of apartheid in South Africa after 1994, in which fl Africans were eligible to vote.
	www.bentleyvanguard.com /media/paper141/news/2001/10/04/News/Sindiwe.Magona.Speaks.To.Bentley.Campus-110875.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.bentleyvanguard.com (390 words)

	Sindiwe Magona storytelling
		Magona brings into being an interspace from which she is able to weave a net from the said range of influences to contribute to her literary project.
		Sindiwe at first reacts with shame and disgust to the change in her mother's life, but turns this around and allows herself to welcome both her mother's decision and the spiritual world.
		Sindiwe Magona therefore skilfully shapes her narrative by drawing from diverse literary genres to contribute to a literary project that has a diverse set of values and engages with the audience at various levels.
	www.uwc.ac.za /arts/english/interaction/96pg.htm (2598 words)

	AUTHOR SINDIWE MAGONA TO SPEAK AT ORIENTATION
		Sindiwe Magona, an award-winning author, poet, storyteller, speaker, actor, and playwright has been published in her native South Africa, as well as in Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands.
		Magona was brought up in the harsh surroundings of the townships of the Cape Flats, in Cape Town.
		Magona is qualified as a teacher and now holds degrees from UNISA in South Africa and Columbia University in the United States.
	www.cord.edu /dept/news/releases/03206.html (252 words)

	Concordia College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		You are invited to participate in preparation for and in response to the visit of Sindiwe Magona, author of the novel, Mother to Mother.
		Returning students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to read Magona's book and are welcome to attend a workshop on understanding the cultural and historical context of Magona's novel on August 22, 2003.
		Magona in the preface says that in her novel "there is only one killer" (v).
	www4.cord.edu /principia/summer_reading.htm (885 words)

	ZA@PLAY - BOOKS 28/09/98
		Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother is a fictionalised account of the life and events leading up to the murder of Amy Biehl, told from the point of view of the mother, Mandisa, of one of the youths who did the deed.
		What makes it interesting to consider these novels together is that Magona, ever the self-appointed scourge of white madams (including liberals and other lefties) in her previous books, has little time for the kind of woman that Ruth is in Unbroken Wing, while Pitt’s engagement with women such as Mandisa is minimal.
		And although I think it would be fair to say that Magona identified rather closely with Mandisa, the mother of Mxolisi, in her book, Pitt’s relationship with her main character is more complicated; a sort of half-hearted retrospective wannabe, she sees Ruth as being and doing things she partly admired and partly scorned.
	www.chico.mweb.co.za /mg/books/9809/980928-struggle.html (1253 words)

	ISHA Past Events
		Magona was born in 1943 in the Transkei region of South Africa and was raised in the brutal conditions of the fl townships of Cape Flats in Cape Town.
		Magona attended the University of London, and she earned her B.A. in psychology and history from the University of South Africa in Pretoria.
		Sindiwe Magona’s visit was co-sponsored by Chancellor Marcellette Williams; Lee Edwards, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts; ISHA (the Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts); and the departments of anthropology, history, and English.
	www.umass.edu /hfa/isha/past_events.html (1310 words)

	Push-Push
		With vivid and perceptive prose, Magona creates memorable characters, both hilarious and tragic, who bring to life the rich and varied backgrounds and cultures of South Africa.
		Magona's works include two autobiographies, To My Children's Children and Forced to Grow, the short story collection, Living, Loving, and Lying Awake at Night, and the novel Mother to Mother.
		"Sindiwe Magona's [writing] is like holding a handful of bright African beads; each tale and her telling of it is part of the treasure; you are affected and altered." —Argus
	aalbc.com /books/push-pus.htm (254 words)

	To My Children's Children
		This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new fl writer.
		Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.
		Sindiwe Magona is the author of Forced to Grow and Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night.
	www.africanmarket.com /front/product.asp?product=760 (169 words)

	Award-Winning Writer Sindiwe Magona to Speak on South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Magona was a featured author in the 2002 NEH Summer Institute at George Washington University: Literary Perspectives on Race and Rights in the American South and in South Africa: Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Nadine Gordimer, and Sindiwe Magona.
		Magona lives in New York City and works at the United Nations.
		Magona’s son Sandile Sayedwa is a 1991 Hartwick graduate and was recently named Outstanding Young Alumnus by the Hartwick Alumni Association.
	www.hartwick.edu /x6078.xml (268 words)

	Beacon Press: Reading Group Guides: Mother to Mother
		Sindiwe Magona is the author of two memoirs and two collections of short stories.
		What role does a community have in the life of an individual, particularly in the case of a woman, her body, and pregnancy in the Black African community Magona describes.
		Sindiwe Magona reminds us of the implacably complex tangle of fury, loathing, innocence, and idealism that ruined two lives and cast a horrific shadow over both of their grieving families.
	www.beacon.org /client/readguide/0949rg.cfm (957 words)

	1999 Spring Writer's Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A specialist in linguistics, the psychological novel, literature and psychoanalysis, and Chaucer, he is Professor of English at WPU and has led numerous workshops in Writing Across the Disciplines and Writing as Process.
		Sindiwe Magona is the author of several books, including two collections of short stories, Living Loving and Lying Awake at Night and Push, Push and Other Stories, and the autobiographical works To My Children's Children and Forced to Grow.
		Magona is the recipient of an award from the New York Foundation for the Arts and was awarded a Ph.D. in Lettres Humaines from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York.
	www.wpunj.edu /cohss/english/writer's_conference/1999_Writer's_Conference.htm (1627 words)

	cul012 African women writers ponder literary future
		Misanet.com / IPS, 6 February - African women authors share mixed feelings about their publishing success in the United States and abroad, but they do agree on one thing - women in Africa are in dire straits and, given their circumstances, the chance to tell their stories to the world is in jeopardy.
		Sindiwe Magona is the author of 'Push-Push and Other Stories', which will be published in May by Beacon Press of Boston.
		Magona left South Africa in 1981 because, as she puts it, she was "sick and tired of apartheid".
	www.afrol.com /Categories/Culture/cul012_women_writers.htm (1021 words)

	South African author to speak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Magona was born in the Transkei (a former South African homeland) in 1943 and grew up in Cape Town's fl townships.
		Magona was a featured author in the 2002 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at George Washington University: Literary Perspectives on Race and Rights in the American South and in South Africa: Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Nadine Gordimer and Sindiwe Magona.
		Magona's son Sandile Sayedwa is a 1991 Hartwick graduate.
	www.thedailystar.com /news/stories/2003/11/07/sa.html (415 words)

	"Margins As Points Of Re-Departure", by Marta Bladek
		In Magona’s short stories, the first step towards the transformation of the margin into, using hooks’ terminology, "a space of radical openness" (153) is establishing a community of working women.
		The working women in Magona’s short stories and the narrator in Zami define themselves as fl females only after they have questioned and challenged the dominant views of what it means to be a woman of color.
		Their (re)discovered identities are not limited to the narrow and inflexible categorization imposed by the dominant social discourse; yet it was the system’s attempt to confine them to a single naming, to a fixed, closed off space that led them to the recognition of who they are not and who they may become.
	english.montclair.edu /portfolio/bladekf98.htm (3213 words)

	Amazon.ca: To My Children's Children: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An unwed mother, she was forced to resign her teaching post, becoming instead a domestic servant for white families.
		For Magona as a child, white families were the source of treasured cast-off toys and books brought back to the village by a domestic worker.
		A particularly poignant passage details a closely knit group of domestics with whom Magona rode the bus to and from work.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1566561523 (405 words)

	Push Push (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Sindiwe Magona's [writing] is like holding a handful of bright African beads; each tale and her telling of it is part of the treasure; you are affected and altered."
		After leaving the fl township of Guguletu, South Africa, Sindiwe Magona earned her master's degree at Columbia University.
		She is the author of two memoirs and two story collections, as well as the novel Mother to Mother (Beacon Press / 0-8070-0949-0 / $14.00 pb).
	www.beacon.org /productdetails.cfm?PC=792 (218 words)

	Mother to Mother \| Mother to Mother (Bluestreak) \| Sindiwe Magona
		As a mother during apartheid the possibilities for Mandisa, Mxolisi's mother to direct her son's future did not exist.
		In Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother, the old clichý put yourself in my shoes takes an interesting and unheard of twist.
		But because Magona goes into such depth of her peoples' background and uses first person throughout the novel, you will find yourself empathizing with the trials of her people.
	www.very-clever.com /information/dodiddzezd (760 words)

	Amazon.fr : Mother to Mother : Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		South African novelist and short story writer Sindiwe Magona eschews a tabloid recreation of the crime, envisioning instead the world of Amy's killers, and creating in Mandisa, the mother of one of those young men, a martyr whose heart and life reflect the tragedy of apartheid.
		Mxolisi's introduction to racial violence occurs as a child, when he witnesses the shooting deaths of two older boys whom he idolizes; by age 20, he's become a respected leader of the student revolutionary movement.
		Although Magona's pacing seems irritatingly slow at times, the mood becomes taut as Mxolisi and Amy approach their moment of destiny in this chilling and ingenious docudrama, a noteworthy American debut for a writer whose work has received well-deserved praise in her own country.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0807009490 (645 words)

	Magona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Having grown up in rural Transkei, Magona joined her mother on a trek to find work as a domestic servant in Cape Town.
		There she experienced the combined difficulties and remarkable community support found in urban slums.
		As a young person she faced obstacles in pursuit of an education and lived through the beginning of apartheid.
	www.history.und.ac.za /ebe1mhm/magona.htm (56 words)

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