Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women?
Subtitle: Stories of the South African Transition
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press; University of Kwazulu-Natal Press
Published: July 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781869141202
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Women's studies; History; History: World; Southern Africa; Africa - South - Republic of South Africa; Women's Studies - General; 20th century; History and criticism; Politics and literature; Post-apartheid era; South Africa; South African literature (English); Women authors
Description: 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.