birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
aliwal north , south africa south african 11 september 1956 joan.jpg joan hambidge
 joan hambidge academic , poet , writer , critic
joan hambidge

joan helene hambidge -lrb- born 11 september 1956 in aliwal north , south africa -rrb- -lrb- the english surname notwithstanding -rrb- , is an afrikaans poet , literary theorist and academic .
she is a prolific poet in afrikaans , controversial as a public figure and critic and notorious for her `` out-of-the-closet '' style of writing .
her theoretic contributions deal mainly with roland barthes , deconstruction , postmodernism , psychoanalysis and metaphysics .
