Space, Place, and Gendered Violence in South African Writing
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 17, 2014
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781137453426
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Space, Place, and Gendered Violence in South African Writing (Comparative Feminist Studies)