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A 9 page paper which examines narratives as they present elements of redefinition and redemption. The works examined are Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa; and Ilan Stavans’ On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Languages. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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the world in general. They are works that are clearly very personal and works that illuminate the human condition in many instances. Such is the case with Mark Mathabanes Kaffir
Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa; and Ilan Stavans On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Languages. They are both two
very different stories, told by two very different individuals whose experiences are unique. Within their works one sees powerful examples of how a narrative can offer up, as Stavans notes
within the work, "redefinition and redemption" as it pertains to the story of the author.i The following paper examines how both young men are clearly redefined and find a sense
of redemption, albeit a redemption that is not perfect. The paper examines each story separately and then discusses the two together. Narratives: Redefinition and Redemption: Kaffir Boy In Mathabanes
work the reader is presented with the story of his childhood, up until his escape of sorts, from South Africa, as the title suggests. His life is incredibly vivid and
he holds nothing back in telling about the struggles he endured as a young boy in South Africa. For example, he speaks of how in some particular barracks there wer
men in blankets who would sexually use little boys as prostitutes. The boys would receive money and so they would be able to eat as they were all, all the
little boys, constantly hungry. Mathabane was also constantly suffering from hunger, as well as physical abuse, and he tells of how he barely escaped an encounter wherein he would have
been sexually raped by grown men, a very vivid scene that is heart wrenching but truly demonstrates the foundation or background from where the author came and thus truly illuminating
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