Abstract
This essay reads Phyllis Naidoo's 1990 Waiting to Die in Pretoria as a radical requiem for Black death under apartheid. Naidoo builds her case against the death penalty through a roll of Black death row inmates that anticipates contemporary racial crises with an uncanny feel for the trauma of white supremacist violence.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 144-148 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | South Asian Review |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Accepted/In press - 2021 |
Keywords
- Phyllis Naidoo
- political solidarity
- Black Consciousness
- death penalty
- Black death
- anti-apartheid
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Literature and Literary Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Gender Studies