Deep HiStories : Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa / Wendy Woodward, Patricia Hayes, and Gary Minkley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodward, Wendy, author.

Hayes, Patricia, author.

Minkley, Gary, author.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; Volume 57.

Cross/Cultures Series ; Volume 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Editions Rodopi B.V., [2002]

Summary:

Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume's theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender - debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include sexual difference, subjectivities, colonial (and postcolonial) discourses and the politics of representation. Deep hiStories goes beyond the dichotomies which have largely characterized the discussion of women and gender in Africa, and explores alternative models of interpretation such as 'genealogies of voice'. These 'genealogies' transcend the conventional binaries of visibility and invisibility, speaking and silence. Works covering South Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and Zimbabwe, Namibia and Cameroon in the twentieth include: • Colonial readings of Foucault • Ideologies of domesticity • Torture and testimony of slave women • Women as missionary targets • Gender and the public sphere • Race, science and spectacle • Male nursing on mines • Infanticide, insanity and social control • Fertility and the postcolonial state • Literary reconstructions of the past • Gender-blending and code-switching • De/colonizing the queer The collection includes diverse research on the body in Southern Africa for the first time. It brings new subtleties to the ongoing debates on culture, civility and sexuality, dealing centrally with constructions of race and whiteness in history and literature. It is an important resource for teachers and students of gender and colonial studies.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of figures

Prologue

Introduction

Deep HiStories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa

WENDY WOODWARD, PATRICIA HAYES AND GARY MINKLEY

Genealogies of voice

State Racism and the Education of Desires:

A Colonial Reading of Foucault

ANN LAURA STOLER

Domesticity and Dispossession: The Ideologies of Domesticity and 'Home' and the British Construction of the Primitive from the Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries

ELIZABETH ELBOURNE

Contradictory Tongues: Torture and Testimony of Two Slave Women in the Eastern Cape Courts in 1934

WENDY WOODWARD

Women's Talk and the Colonial State: The Case of Sir John Wylde, 1931-1933

KIRSTEN MACKENZIE

Science and the Spectacle: /Khanako's South Africa, 1936-1937

CIRAJ RASSOOL AND PATRICIA HAYES

Steeped histories

'Moedermeesteres': Dutch-Afrikaans Women's Entry into the Public Sphere in the Cape Colony 1860-1896

MARIJKE Du TOIT

'We respected them for their colour': Male Nursing on the Mines in Twentieth-Century South Africa

SHULA MARKS

Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother: Transgression and Social Control in Colonial Namibia

MEREDITH MCKITTRICK WITH FANUEL SHINGENGE

Gender and Fertility in a Postcolonial Moment: The Prohibition of Depo-Provera in Zimbabwe 1981

AMY KALER

Sounding lines

Self-Representation and the Reconstruction of Southern African Pasts: Bessie Head's A Bewitched Crossroad

DESIRÉE LEWIS

Gender-Blending and Code-Switching in the South African Novel: A Postcolonial Model

JOHAN JACOBS

Targeted for Change: Cameroonian Women and Missionary Designs in Some Fiction of Mongo Beti

ELIAS BONGMBA

Colonizing the Queer: Some Problems in Curating South Africa's First National Gay and Lesbian Art Exhibition

JOAN BELLIS

Notes on contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Woodward, Wendy Deep HiStories

ISBN:

9789004486416

9004486410

OCLC:

1288217677

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004486416 DOI