Cecily Lockett

Biographic Data

ID7501905
NAMECecily Lockett
GIVEN NAMESCecily
FAMILY NAMELockett
SIGNATURELOCKETT C
AFFILIATIONSZuid-Afrikaans Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
H-INDEX0

  • South African Women's Poetry: A Gynocritical Perspective

    Cecily LockettARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1992

    This paper is, in many ways, companion to paper I read at the 1988 AUETSA conference, which was subsequently published as Men's Club.2 In this paper I argued that what constituted tradition in South African poetry was overwhelmingly androcentric and exclusionary of women, akin to men's club. At the end of the paper I suggested that feminist criticism of poetry needed to develop awareness of the history of women's poetry?that there is such history…

  • Searching for words: Towards a gynocritical model for the study of South African women's poetry

    Open AccessCecily LockettARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1991

    In this article I will attempt to provide a theoretical model for the feminist study of South African women's poetry. I argue for the use of a socio‐historical and contextual approach, one that accepts the “presence” of women as poets and acknowledges their voices and their attempts to define themselves as women and as writers. Using the preliminary work of Anglo‐American theorists as a point of reference, I attempt to justify the validity of my …

  • Feminism(s) and writing in English in South Africa

    Cecily LockettARTICLECurrent Writing1990

    (1990). Feminism(s) and writing in English in South Africa. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-21

  • The black woman in South African English literature

    Open AccessCecily LockettARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1988

    The article examines representations of black women in South African writing from the seventeenth century to the present. It is suggested that both race and gender are important factors in the formulation of several stereotypical depictions which recur in the work of white authors. These types are variously classified as “untouchables”, “unattainables” and “destroyers”. The article concludes with a brief consideration of the “Mother Africa” figur…