And wrote my story anyway : black South African women's novels as feminism / Barbara Boswell.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Part literary history, part feminist historiography And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism critically examines influential novels in English 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. She examines who is included and excluded, while producing alternative visions for a more just South African society. This is an erudite analysis of ten well-known South African writers, spanning the apartheid and post-apartheid era: Miriam Tlali, Lauretta Ngcobo, Farida Karodia, Agnes Sam, Sindiwe Magona, Zoë Wicomb, Rayda Jacobs, Yvette Christiansë, Kagiso Lesego Molope and Zukiswa Wanner. Boswell argues that black women's fiction could and should be read as a subversive site of knowledge production in a setting, which, for centuries, denied black women's voices and intellects. Reading their fiction as theory, for the first time these writers' works are placed in sustained conversation with each other, producing an arc of feminist criticism that speaks forcefully back to the abuse of a racist, white-dominated, patriarchal power.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-77614-619-0

OCLC:

1287098642