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And wrote my story anyway : black South African women's novels as feminism / Barbara Boswell.
Van Pelt Library PR9362.6.W6 B67 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boswell, Barbara, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South African fiction (English)--Women authors--20th century--History and criticism.
- South African fiction (English).
- Feminist literature--South Africa--20th century--History and criticism.
- Feminist literature.
- Feminism--South Africa.
- Feminism.
- Authors, African--History and criticism.
- Authors, African.
- Racism--South Africa--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Women in literature.
- Nationalism--South Africa.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- South African fiction (English)--Women authors.
- South Africa.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 230 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Part literary history, part feminist historiography, this is a critically examination of influential novels by eminent black female writers. Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during apartheid and the transition to democracy, Barbara Boswell traces the ways in which black women's fiction critically interrogates narrow ideas of nationalism. The result is an arc of feminist criticism speaking forcefully to racist, white-dominated, patriarchal power.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Writing As Activism: A History Of Black South African Women's Writing
- 2. Rewriting The Apartheid Nation: Miriam Tlali And Lauretta Ngcobo
- 3. Dissenting Daughters: Girlhood And Nation In The Fiction Of Farida Karodia And Agnes Sam
- 4. Interrogating `Truth' In The Post-Apartheid Nation: Zoe Wicomb And Sindiwe Magona
- 5. Making Personhood: Remaking History In Yvette Christianse And Rayda Jacobs's Neo-Slave Narratives
- 6. Black Women Writing `New' South African Masculinities: Kagiso Lesego Molope And Zukiswa Wanner.
- Notes:
- Includes biographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781776146185
- 1776146182
- 9781776146222
- 1776146220
- OCLC:
- 1145109705
- Publisher Number:
- 99986019041
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