Table of Contents

1: Mandela - Story and symbol
2: Scripting a Life - The early years
3: Growth of a National Icon - Later years
4: Influences and Interactions
5: Sophiatown Sophisticate
6: Masculine Performer
7: Spectres in the Prison Garden
8: Mandela's futures - The ethical legacy
Further Reading
References

About the Author

Elleke Boehmer is Professor in World Literature in English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of the widely acclaimed Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial (2002), Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005), as well as of three novels set in South Africa. She has edited the British bestseller Scouting for Boys by Robert
Baden-Powell (2004), Empire Writing (1998), and the pioneering Indian lawyer Cornelia Sorabji's memoirs.

Reviews

An excellent overview of his career...[and] much more than just a "Very Short Introduction".
*Independent.*