Glen Retief
Autor von The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood
Über den Autor
Glen Retief is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Susquehanna University. He has been published in a variety of literary journals and quarterlies and awarded a James Michener Writing Fellowship and the AWP Intro Journals Award for Creative Nonfiction. He lives in Sunbury, mehr anzeigen Pennsylvania, with his partner, Peterson Toscano. weniger anzeigen
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- South Africa
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- Kruger National Park, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Cape Town
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This system becomes a recurring motif as Glen navigates his way, as a gay man, within the homophobic power systems of South Africa. Racism and homophobia mingle within the apartheid-era South African society, and the same dynamic takes place outside the boarding school as within it: the victim blaming and internalization of power disparity allows corrupt systems to remain in place, with a self-perpetuating stronghold on their authority. But that authority is not completely beyond confrontation, and Glen's eventual work in combating homophobic legislation in the post-apartheid government becomes a reversal of the powerlessness of his boarding school experiences.… (mehr)