KGOMOTSO MICHAEL MASEMOLA, PhD (University of Sheffield, 2006), is Professor of English Literature at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria. Besides contributing book chapters to such works as The Oxford History of the Novel in English (2016), he has published articles and is the editor of Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography (2014).

• Introduction:The Nomadic Routes of Black South African Autobiography 1 Topologies of Collocation: The Problematic of Representation in Black South African Autobiography 2 Of Belonging and Becoming: Black Atlantic Cultural Memory in the Early Autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es’kia Mphahlele 3 The ‘Worldliness’ of the Wilderness Text: The Aporetic Experience of Exile in Mphahlele’s The Wanderers and N. Chabani Manganyi’s Mashangu’s Reverie 4 Between the Double Temporality of Tinseltown and Sophiatown: Cultural Memory in Miriam Makeba’s Makeba: My Story and Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History 5 The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law, and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona 6 Demonstrating the Democratic Ideal in the Idea of Aporetic Autobiography: Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele’s A Life Conclusion: Autobiography All the Same? The Assemblage of Cultural Memory, the Semblance of History,and the Dissemblance of the Other Works Cited Index