Research Catalog

Title

Remembering the nation, dismembering women? : stories of the South African transition / Meg Samuelson.

Author

Samuelson, Meg.

Publication

Scottsville, South Africa : University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

ix, 272 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Remembering the nation, dismembering women? Explores the ways in which the imaginative reconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa as 'rainbow nation' has been produced from images of women that dismember their bodies and disremember their historical presence.

Subject

• Since 1900
• Geschichte 1994-2006
• South African literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
• Politics and literature > South Africa > History > 20th century
• Post-apartheid era > South Africa
• Women > South Africa
• Women in literature
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1994-

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (Doctoral) -- University of Capetown, 2005

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rememberings and dismemberings : female subjects of a nation in transition -- Krotoa-Eva : translator, traitor, 'rainbow' mother -- Nongqawuse : national time and (female) authorship -- Sarah Bartmann : re-cast and re-covered -- Unspeakable acts (un)spoken : disfigured bodies in David's story and Disgrace -- The mother-witness : Mother to mother, Bloodlines and Our generation -- (Un)homely women : 'political widowhood' in A life and The cry of Winnie Mandela -- Stories of the transition : the warp and woof.

ISBN

9781869141202 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007332726

OCLC

• 170955452
• SCSB-10868791

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library