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

Title
Remembering the nation, dismembering women? : stories of the South African transition

Author
Samuelson, Meg.

ISBN
9781869141202

Personal Author
Samuelson, Meg.

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

Physical Description
ix, 272 pages ; 23 cm

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

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.

Abstract
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 Term
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 African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Geographic Term
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-


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