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Space, place, and gendered violence in South African writing

Title: Space, place, and gendered violence in South African writing / Sorcha Gunne.
Author: Gunne, Sorcha, 1980-
Publication: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

xix, 235 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This book explores the relationship between space, place and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing. Gendered violence constitutes a unique form of violence because it is at once both intensely political and intensely personal. As a case study, South Africa offers considerable potential for analysis because the governmental technology of apartheid affected not only race relations, but also gendered and spatial ones. This resulted in conditions of exceptionality that operate on the levels of institutional power and political allegory, but yet had, and still have, an immense impact on the everyday. This book focuses on how narrative representations of gendered violence document, negotiate, challenge and resist structures of domination and power"--

Series Statement

Comparative feminist studies

Uniform Title

Comparative feminist studies series

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.

Contents

One. Introduction: Gendered Violence, Liminality, and South African Writing -- Two. Writing Prison and Political Struggle -- Three. Liminal Landscapes and Segregated Spaces -- Four. Train Journeys and Border Lines.

ISBN

9781137453426
1137453427

LCCN

2014023884
40024466903

OCLC

ocn886489696
886489696
SCSB-14003356

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library