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Remembering the nation, dismembering women? : stories of the South African transition / Meg Samuelson.
Van Pelt Library PR9355.6.W6 S26 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuelson, Meg.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and literature--South Africa--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Women and literature.
- History.
- South Africa.
- South African literature (English)--History and criticism.
- South African literature (English).
- Women and literature--South Africa--History.
- Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
- Post-apartheid era.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- Politics and government.
- Women--South Africa.
- Women.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 272 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Scottsville : University Of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? explores the ways in which the imaginative reconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa as 'rainbow nation' has been produced from images of women that dismember their bodies and disremember their historical presence.
- From Krotoa-Eva and Sarah Bartmann to Nongqawuse and Winnie Mandela, Samuelson tackles the figurations of some of the most controversial and significant women in the making of modern South Africa. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial and post-structuralist theory and close textual readings of literary and cultural texts produced during the first decade of democracy, her analysis offers a provocative critique of the formation of nationalist and feminist collectivities. The book explores the constraints of subjection and the performative power of subjectivity, as well as the ways in which women have been able to form collectivities on new terms.
- Contents:
- Rememberings and dismemberings : female subjects of a nation in transition
- Krotoa-Eva : translator, traitor, 'rainbow' mother
- Nongqawuse : national time and (female) authorship
- Sarah Bartmann : re-cast and re-covered
- Unspeakable acts (un)spoken : disfigured bodies in David's story and Disgrace
- The mother-witness : Mother to mother, Bloodlines and Our generation
- (Un)homely women : 'political widowhood' in A life and The cry of Winnie Mandela
- Stories of the transition : the warp and woof.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Doctoral) -- University of Capetown, 2005
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1869141202
- 9781869141202
- OCLC:
- 170955452
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