… affect studies and Sindiwe Magona’s novel Mother to Mother, the … The conclusion of her
reading of the novel allows her to … “Reading with Empathy: Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother”…

… , and empathy between two sorrowing mothers-the killer's mother and the victim's … this
author’s wildest expectation. In Germany, it is used (in english) as compulsory reading for a high …

… a textual analysis of Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998) … seeking out points of empathy
and connection between Black … In his reading of this work, Ndebele observes how Jansen …

… conduit, removing the ‘otherness’ often associated with it by a western reader, and her own
process of acceptance encourages the reader to engage with it positively as well. She writes: …

… an essential read for Magona enthusiasts as well as for … empathy, or the ability to inhabit
the other’s world, would be difficult, if not impossible” (226). Empathy is inherent in all Magona’s …

… culpability in Amy’s murder. I argue that Magona blames Mxolisi’s actions on an imagined
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… empathetic, reconciliatory conversation between two mothers. The existing criticism on
Mother to Mother asserts that Magona’s portrayal of Mandisa provides the mother-victim a voice …

… In it, Sindiwe Magona describes how she became a reader and later a writer and outlines
the personal and political challenges she faced as a black South African writer when …

… Magona invites her readers to join her on her journey, and through her telling paints a picture
of hope, … to another, but also resilience, love, compassion and hope. She reminds us that ‘it …

… moves both narrator and reader away from the … Mother to Mother, which presents the reader
with a narrator fiercely determined to articulate her shame to the empathetic reader Magona …