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Author:

Robbe, Ksenia, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015063772

Title:

Conversations of motherhood : South African women's writing across traditions / Ksenia Robbe.

Publisher:

University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 317 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Motherhood in literature.
Women authors, South African--History and criticism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Culture in literature.
South African literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Culture in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
South African literature--Women authors.
Women authors, South African.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliography references (pages 293-307) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Translocating traditions : women's writing, motherhood and the politics of reading South African literatures -- South African women's writing and (post)colonial imaginaries of motherhood -- The relations of outsideness : black mothers/white authors in Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena and Die Kremetartekspedisie -- The posers of (co)authoring : ambiguities of 'mother/child-making' in Mother to mother and Agaat -- Transformations in the 'great time' : daughters writing 'back' and 'forward' in You can't get lost in Cape Town and A daughter's legacy -- Shared events of being : mothers/daughters of the (trans)nation in Call me woman and A change of tongue -- Conclusion: Altering genealogies : transcultural perspectives on South African women's writing.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1869142888
9781869142889

OCLC:

(OCoLC)902661533

LCCN:

2015453384

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)