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标题：On the power of restraint in the writing of lives: Humanities Book Award 2018
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作者：Jonathan D. Jansen
期刊名称：South African Journal of Science
印刷版ISSN：0038-2353
电子版ISSN：1996-7489
出版年度：2018
卷号：114
期号：11-12
页码：1-2
DOI：10.17159/sajs.2018/a0295
语种：English
出版社：The Foundation for Research Development
摘要：It is a wisdom attributed to the Greek historian Thucydides, that ‘Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most’. To read Chabani Manganyi’s Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist is to be awed by the power of restraint in the hands of a capable author and a compelling thinker. Restraint, in this context, is not synonymous with ‘not telling’ or ‘holding back’ on writing about a troublesome event. In the hands of a highly skilled writer, restraint is a way of communicating where the very art of control over the writing enables the telling to explode off the pages of the book.
关键词：psychology;autobiography;ideas;apartheid;South Africa