Writing as Resistance charts a journey through the inner workings of apartheid, through encounters imprisonment, exile, homecoming that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. This is a study of linked encounters through life stories, which provide a window between apartheid as ideology and as lived experience, and are portrayed as ultimately playing a part in transforming defeat into victory, oppression into democracy through Writing as Resistance

Part 1 Detention and Imprisonment Chapter 2 The Worlds of Dentention and Imprisonment Chapter 3 Rewriting the Prison, Rewriting the Nation Chapter 4 The Body and/in Space Chapter 5 Legal and Literary Narrative on the Space of Death Part 6 Exile and Homecoming Chapter 7 Situating Exile: Post-Colonialism, Globalization, Nationalism Chapter 8 Exile as a Space of Death: The Individual (William "Bloke" Modisane) and the Organization (the ANC) Chapter 9 Exiles, Migrants, Expatriates: The Life Stories of Breyten Breytenbach and Dan Jacobson as Creative Journeys Chapter 10 Home and Homecoming Part 11 Witness Chapter 12 The Witness: Imprisonment and Exile as Symbol