And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism by Boswell, Barbara

And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781776146222)

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And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism by Boswell, Barbara

And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism

$89.00
And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism by Boswell, Barbara

And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women's Novels as Feminism

$89.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 criticality 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, 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.

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.

Author: Barbara Boswell
ISBN-10: 1776146220
ISBN-13: 9781776146222
Publisher: Wits University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By Barbara Boswell
By Barbara Boswell
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Barbara Boswell is a feminist literary scholar and Associate Professor of English at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Grace: A Novel (2017), which won the 2018 University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for Creative Writing.

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