Remembrance of things past and recent
Modiri Molema's letters home to Mafeking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12943296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Starfield (University of Johannesburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-102 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scrutiny2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1812-5441 • E-ISSN: 1753-5409 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/18125441.2014.993688 |
| OpenAlex | W2073437137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Modiri Molema was a medical student at Glasgow during the First World War. The war kept him in Scotland far longer than his five-year medical curriculum required and inspired the many letters that he wrote to bridge the gulf between the two spaces in which he lived, Glasgow and Mafeking. Though written during wartime, his letters did not share the phlegmatic self-censorship that made the epistolary style of soldiers “a literature of their own”, in Stuart Cloete's view (Fussell 1975 and 2009: 181–182, 228–229). This article explores the characteristic style and strategies used by Molema in his letters home, as well as their intersections with the related genres of life writing, autoethnography, and epistolary narrative. The overall focus is on the self-representation of Modiri Molema through the genre of letter-writing
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |