ABSTRACT South African struggle auto/biography has been a male-dominated genre in which the political has correspondingly dominated the personal. These life narratives have presented the formation of relatively coherent, autonomous selfhoods constructing a stable narrative of anti-Apartheid political history. Male struggle auto/biography hassince the 1980 s been counterbalanced by female auto/biography, existing in the margins of social and historical discourse. In the post-2000 period, a number of struggle auto/biographies have been published which appear to shift the prevailing norms of the genre to highlight the relationality of subject constitution, in which the family has been presented as the most significant matrix of self-formation. The proposed paper considers the curious case of two recent auto/biographies that position eros at the heart of activist self-realisation. Inextricably connected romantic and political relationships are tracked in the life narrative by Zubeida Jaffer, Love in the Time of Treason: The Life Story of Ayesha Dawood, and Fatima Meer’s Memories of Love and Struggle. The article questions the significance of the foregrounding of intimacy in the constitution and the representation of the female (activist) subject.

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在国家中心：Ayesha Dawood和Fatima Meer的自传/传记

摘要南非斗争自传/传记一直是男性占主导地位的类型，其中政治相应地主导了个人。这些生活叙事呈现出相对连贯，自主的自我形态的形成，构成了反种族隔离政治历史的稳定叙事。自1980年代以来，男性斗争自传/传记就被女性自传/传记所抵消，女性自传/传记存在于社会和历史话语的边缘。在2000年后时期，许多斗争自传/传记已经出版，似乎改变了该流派的普遍规范，以突显主体构成的关系，其中家庭被认为是最重要的自我构成矩阵。编队。拟议的论文考虑了两个最近的自传/传记的奇怪情况，它们把激进主义者置于激进主义者自我实现的核心。Zubeida Jaffer的人生叙事，《叛国时期的爱：艾耶莎·达伍德的人生故事》和法蒂玛·梅尔的《爱情与奋斗的回忆》都讲述了密不可分的浪漫和政治关系。文章质疑了亲密关系在宪法和女性（维权人士）代表中的重要性。