Bury Me at the Marketplace, livre ebook

Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of Mphahlele’s selected letters twenty-five years ago under the same title. Bury me at the Marketplace suggested the energy and magnanimity of Mphahlele the man, whose personality and intellect as a writer and educator would carve an indelible place for him in South Africa’s literary and cultural history, the international affiliations out of which it has been formed, particularly in the diaspora that connects South Africa to the rest of the African continent and to the black presence in Europe and the United States.
This selection of Mphahlele’s own letters has been greatly expanded: it has also been augmented by the addition of letters from Mphahlele’s correspondents. It illustrates the networks that shaped Mphahlele’s personal and intellectual life, the circuits of intimacy, intellectual enquiry, of friendship, scholarships and solidarity that he created and nurtured over the years. The correspondence is supplemented by introductory essays from two editors, by two interviews conducted with Mphahlele by Manganyi and Attwell’s insightful explanatory notes.
Preface
In his own words - N Chabani Manganyi
Chapter 1 Introduction
Reading in the company of Es’kia Mphahlele - David Attwell
Chapter 2 Correspondents
Chapter 3 Letters 1943-2006
Chapter 4 Interviews
Looking in: In search of Es’kia Mphahlele
Metaphors of self
Interview references
Index