ABSTRACT In this article, I analyse two recent African autobiographical works for the ways in which they provide counter-hegemonic national discourses in regard to Nigeria and South Africa. The texts are In the Shadow of a Saint (2001), Ken Wiwa's memoir and biographical homage to his father, the martyred Nigerian writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Native Nostalgia (2009) by the South African historian, Jacob Dlamini. The article highlights the different ways in which each author challenges official discourses of post-conflict national reconciliation through the re-imagining of national histories, the narrative reconstruction of social/cultural identity and the depiction of space. Furthermore, it highlights how the subgenre of postcolonial life-writing is deployed for purposes of literary (re)historicisation and socio-political critique while drawing attention to important divergences, convergences and connections between post-2000 writing from two of Africa's eminent literary sites—Nigeria and South Africa.

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重写国家：肯维瓦在圣徒的阴影下和雅各布德拉米尼的本土怀旧中的文学再历史化和反霸权话语

摘要 在这篇文章中，我分析了最近两部非洲自传作品，以了解它们提供关于尼日利亚和南非的反霸权国家话语的方式。文本是在圣徒的阴影下（2001 年），肯·维瓦（Ken Wiwa）的回忆录和传记致敬他的父亲、殉道的尼日利亚作家和活动家肯·萨罗-维瓦（Ken Saro-Wiwa），以及南非历史学家雅各布·德拉米尼（Jacob Dlamini）的《乡土乡情》（2009 年）。文章强调了每位作者通过对国家历史的重新想象、社会/文化身份的叙事重建和空间描绘来挑战冲突后民族和解的官方话语的不同方式。此外，