Twidle Twidle
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Twidle Twidle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Twidle |
| FAMILY NAME | Twidle |
| SIGNATURE | TWIDLE T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unusable Pasts: Life-Writing, Literary Nonfiction, and the Case of Demetrios Tsafendas
On September 6, 1966, a parliamentary messenger named Demitrios Tsafendas stabbed to death Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in full view of South Africa’s all-white House of Assembly. Tsafendas, the apartheid judiciary soon declared, was insane and without political motive: “a meaningless creature” who had acted on instructions from a tapeworm inside him. Often written off as a “freakish footnote” within the liberation story, his unsettled and com…
Unusable Pasts: Life-Writing, Literary Nonfiction, and the Case of Demetrios Tsafendas
On September 6, 1966, a parliamentary messenger named Demitrios Tsafendas stabbed to death Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in full view of South Africa’s all-white House of Assembly. Tsafendas, the apartheid judiciary soon declared, was insane and without political motive: “a meaningless creature” who had acted on instructions from a tapeworm inside him. Often written off as a “freakish footnote” within the liberation story, his unsettled and com…
Unusable Pasts: Life-Writing, Literary Nonfiction, and the Case of Demetrios Tsafendas
On September 6, 1966, a parliamentary messenger named Demitrios Tsafendas stabbed to death Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in full view of South Africa’s all-white House of Assembly. Tsafendas, the apartheid judiciary soon declared, was insane and without political motive: “a meaningless creature” who had acted on instructions from a tapeworm inside him. Often written off as a “freakish footnote” within the liberation story, his unsettled and com…
Art (1 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (1 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (1 works) · History (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Philippine History and Culture (1 works)