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

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Title:

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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Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? explores the ways in which the imaginative reconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has been produced from images of women that dismember their bodies and disremember their historical presence. From Krotoa-Eva and Sarah Bartmann to Nongqawuse and Winnie Mandela, author Meg Samuelson tackles the figurations of some of the most controversial and significant women in the making of modern South Africa. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and post-structuralist theory, and close textual readings of literary and cultural texts produced during the first decade of democracy, her analysis offers a provocative critique of the formation of nationalist and feminist collectivities.