Conversations of motherhood
Subtitle: South African women's writing across traditions
By: Ksenia Robbe
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781869142889
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Motherhood in literature; Women authors; Culture in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; South African Women authors; History and criticism; South African literature
Description: Explores how motherhood is interwoven with themes of survival, power, and identity in seminal novels written by South African authors in English and Afrikaans from the 1970s to 2010. Develops a transcultural approach to the study of literature and literary culture in postcolonial multilingual societies.
Notes: Includes bibliography references (pages 293-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Translocating traditions : women's writing, motherhood and the politics of reading South African literatures; title: South African women's writing and (post)colonial imaginaries of motherhood; title: The relations of outsideness : black mothers/white authors in Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena and Die Kremetartekspedisie; title: The posers of (co)authoring : ambiguities of 'mother/child-making' in Mother to mother and Agaat; title: Transformations in the 'great time' : daughters writing 'back' and 'forward' in You can't get lost in Cape Town and A daughter's legacy; title: Shared events of being : mothers/daughters of the (trans)nation in Call me woman and A change of tongue; title: Conclusion: Altering genealogies : transcultural perspectives on South African women's writing.