Eva Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1990) in Post-Apartheid South Africa – a Critical Rereading
Rereading Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die nearly thirty years after it was first published in 1990 proved to be a complex, rewarding experience. Setting her story of the lives of rural African women in KwaZulu-Natal during the turbulent times that include the Cato Manor protests of 1959, Ngcobo creates a world of nearly unrelieved deprivation and suffering – in a text that also offers pleasure to the reader. Such pleasure is due to the qual…
A Comparative Reading of Elleke Boehmer'sNile Babyand Richard Hoskins'The Boy in the River
This article examines two contemporary texts that present different attitudes towards cultural diversity in Britain: Elleke Boehmer’s novel Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins’ memoir The Boy in the River. Boehmer, who is an internationally recognised theorist in colonial and postcolonial writing, applies her concept of ‘mixedness’ to characterisation and incident, using the metaphorical and narrative devices available to the writer of fiction, to achi…
Geoffrey Nash, The Anglo-Arab Encounter
The Muslim “Who Has Faith” in Leila Aboulela's Novels Minaret (2005) And Lyrics Alley (2009)
This essay analyses Leila Aboulela's narrative techniques when depicting a Muslim “who has faith” in her two most recent novels. In Minaret she presents religion as a source of strength for her female narrator-protagonist but also suggests that Muslim women of faith should adopt a quietist retreat from public life in order to nourish their spiritual life. In Lyrics Alley, by contrast, the male Muslim “who has faith” represents superiority in spir…
Interview with Elizabeth van Heyningen
This interview with the author of The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History, a work of impressive originality and admirable comprehensiveness, focuses on problems relating to the processes of writing social history and of writing on a subject that continues to retain considerable emotional power in South Africa, in which the events in the book took place. Van Heyningen highlights the role played by the imagination when writi…
The Women's War of 1929
A change of thinking
While ‘white’, like other race‐based terms, is redolent of apartheid's categories, it acknowledges the fact that the divisions forged by apartheid linger. Many white women writers have, since 2002, in both popular and more literary forms, moved towards what Krog calls “a change of watching, seeing, listening, a change of thinking”: while Krog and Marlene van Niekerk produce major works that confront in fresh ways the legacies of apartheid, many w…
Gender Politics and the Gothic in Karel Schoeman's This Life
Karel Schoeman's This Life (published as Hierdie lewe in 1993; translated into English in 2005), like other post-apartheid novels recently published by Afrikaansspeaking authors, considers the past and the future of the Afrikaner people. It is alsomarkedly Gothic in style and content: violence, fear, death, and suffering permeate the tale, whose mood is elegiac. I argue, following a proposition by Gerald Gaylard that “[The] melodrama of the Gothi…
Feminism, Islam and the Modern Moroccan Woman in the Works of Leila Abouzeid
At the close of Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman (1998), the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid says that during an encounter with her father in 1976 she told him she had defe
Apartheid's Long Shadow
Zimbabwean Nationalism and Motherhood in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning
2000). Zimbabwean Nationalism and Motherhood in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning. African Studies: Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 229-243
Moms and moral midgets
(1999). Moms and moral midgets: South African feminisms and characterisation in novels in English by White Women. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 36-54
Shaping the truth of the struggle” an interview with Yvonne Vera
(1998). “Shaping the truth of the struggle” an interview with Yvonne Vera. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 75-86
"We Have to Defend Ourselves"
A mother is nothing but a backbone”
Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1990) in Post-Apartheid South Africa – a Critical Rereading
Rereading Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die nearly thirty years after it was first published in 1990 proved to be a complex, rewarding experience. Setting her story of the lives of rural African women in KwaZulu-Natal during the turbulent times that include the Cato Manor protests of 1959, Ngcobo creates a world of nearly unrelieved deprivation and suffering – in a text that also offers pleasure to the reader. Such pleasure is due to the qual…
A Comparative Reading of Elleke Boehmer'sNile Babyand Richard Hoskins'The Boy in the River
This article examines two contemporary texts that present different attitudes towards cultural diversity in Britain: Elleke Boehmer’s novel Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins’ memoir The Boy in the River. Boehmer, who is an internationally recognised theorist in colonial and postcolonial writing, applies her concept of ‘mixedness’ to characterisation and incident, using the metaphorical and narrative devices available to the writer of fiction, to achi…
Interview with Elizabeth van Heyningen
This interview with the author of The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History, a work of impressive originality and admirable comprehensiveness, focuses on problems relating to the processes of writing social history and of writing on a subject that continues to retain considerable emotional power in South Africa, in which the events in the book took place. Van Heyningen highlights the role played by the imagination when writi…
Feminism, Islam and the Modern Moroccan Woman in the Works of Leila Abouzeid
At the close of Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman (1998), the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid says that during an encounter with her father in 1976 she told him she had defe
Zimbabwean Nationalism and Motherhood in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning
2000). Zimbabwean Nationalism and Motherhood in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning. African Studies: Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 229-243
A mother is nothing but a backbone”
A mother is nothing but a backbone”
"We Have to Defend Ourselves"
Shaping the truth of the struggle” an interview with Yvonne Vera
(1998). “Shaping the truth of the struggle” an interview with Yvonne Vera. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 75-86
Moms and moral midgets
(1999). Moms and moral midgets: South African feminisms and characterisation in novels in English by White Women. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 36-54
Zimbabwean Nationalism and Motherhood in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning
2000). Zimbabwean Nationalism and Motherhood in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning. African Studies: Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 229-243
Apartheid's Long Shadow
Feminism, Islam and the Modern Moroccan Woman in the Works of Leila Abouzeid
At the close of Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman (1998), the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid says that during an encounter with her father in 1976 she told him she had defe
Gender Politics and the Gothic in Karel Schoeman's This Life
Karel Schoeman's This Life (published as Hierdie lewe in 1993; translated into English in 2005), like other post-apartheid novels recently published by Afrikaansspeaking authors, considers the past and the future of the Afrikaner people. It is alsomarkedly Gothic in style and content: violence, fear, death, and suffering permeate the tale, whose mood is elegiac. I argue, following a proposition by Gerald Gaylard that “[The] melodrama of the Gothi…
A change of thinking
While ‘white’, like other race‐based terms, is redolent of apartheid's categories, it acknowledges the fact that the divisions forged by apartheid linger. Many white women writers have, since 2002, in both popular and more literary forms, moved towards what Krog calls “a change of watching, seeing, listening, a change of thinking”: while Krog and Marlene van Niekerk produce major works that confront in fresh ways the legacies of apartheid, many w…
The Women's War of 1929
Geoffrey Nash, The Anglo-Arab Encounter
The Muslim “Who Has Faith” in Leila Aboulela's Novels Minaret (2005) And Lyrics Alley (2009)
This essay analyses Leila Aboulela's narrative techniques when depicting a Muslim “who has faith” in her two most recent novels. In Minaret she presents religion as a source of strength for her female narrator-protagonist but also suggests that Muslim women of faith should adopt a quietist retreat from public life in order to nourish their spiritual life. In Lyrics Alley, by contrast, the male Muslim “who has faith” represents superiority in spir…
Interview with Elizabeth van Heyningen
This interview with the author of The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History, a work of impressive originality and admirable comprehensiveness, focuses on problems relating to the processes of writing social history and of writing on a subject that continues to retain considerable emotional power in South Africa, in which the events in the book took place. Van Heyningen highlights the role played by the imagination when writi…
A Comparative Reading of Elleke Boehmer'sNile Babyand Richard Hoskins'The Boy in the River
This article examines two contemporary texts that present different attitudes towards cultural diversity in Britain: Elleke Boehmer’s novel Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins’ memoir The Boy in the River. Boehmer, who is an internationally recognised theorist in colonial and postcolonial writing, applies her concept of ‘mixedness’ to characterisation and incident, using the metaphorical and narrative devices available to the writer of fiction, to achi…
Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1990) in Post-Apartheid South Africa – a Critical Rereading
Rereading Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die nearly thirty years after it was first published in 1990 proved to be a complex, rewarding experience. Setting her story of the lives of rural African women in KwaZulu-Natal during the turbulent times that include the Cato Manor protests of 1959, Ngcobo creates a world of nearly unrelieved deprivation and suffering – in a text that also offers pleasure to the reader. Such pleasure is due to the qual…
Sociology (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works)