{"product_id":"and-wrote-my-story-anyway-barbara-boswell-9781776146185","title":"And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStudying 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 criticality interrogates narrow ideas of nationalism. She examines who is included and excluded, while producing alternative visions for a more just South African society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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, Zo  Wicomb, Rayda Jacobs, Yvette Christians , 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReading 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Boswell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1776146182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781776146185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wits University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Barbara Boswell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995885273343,"sku":"9781776146185","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fd779a18-170a-4af8-89a9-2e083ef3f6d3.jpg?v=1683338433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/and-wrote-my-story-anyway-barbara-boswell-9781776146185","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}