Lynda Gichanda Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 82390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynda Gichanda Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynda Gichanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9504-5919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender and Popular Imaginaries in Africa
Roundtable review
Not the story you wanted to hear
J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime has been widely explored – both for its controversy and merits – as engaging in “acts of genre” where the inscription of an autobiographical narrative simultaneously serves as a metatextual and ideological critique of its form. Similarly, this article is intrigued by generic instability, but our terrain lies further afield, exploring how the narrative lapses from the lofty ideals of romance to the baser “truth” of chick-…
Abagyenda bareeba. Those who Travel, See’
Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish explores the migratory experiences of the main narrator-focalizer, Christine Mugisha, as she travels from Uganda to the United States of America. Although the analyses of home, exile, and migration by writers like Edward Said and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza tend to be ungendered; Baingana seems to elaborate on these concerns by reflecting on the gendered experience of travel. As Carole Boyce Davies has argued, the act of t…
On the fringes of society’ and ‘out of the closest’
Gibson Ncube's ‘Sexual/Textual Politics: Rethinking gender and sexuality in gay Moroccan literature’ focuses on an emerging body of gay literature that is developing within the larger framework of
Young, black and female in post-apartheid South Africa
A new kind of woman, one who occupies a distinctive subject position, is emerging in South African literature. This is the young black female growing up between cultures, trying on different identities, and evaluating new forms of affiliation. Kopano Matlwa, author of Coconut, is representative of a new generation of women writers who focus on issues of young black femininity in post-apartheid South Africa. Coconut features two black teenage fema…
Gender and Popular Imaginaries in Africa
Young, black and female in post-apartheid South Africa
A new kind of woman, one who occupies a distinctive subject position, is emerging in South African literature. This is the young black female growing up between cultures, trying on different identities, and evaluating new forms of affiliation. Kopano Matlwa, author of Coconut, is representative of a new generation of women writers who focus on issues of young black femininity in post-apartheid South Africa. Coconut features two black teenage fema…
Not the story you wanted to hear
J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime has been widely explored – both for its controversy and merits – as engaging in “acts of genre” where the inscription of an autobiographical narrative simultaneously serves as a metatextual and ideological critique of its form. Similarly, this article is intrigued by generic instability, but our terrain lies further afield, exploring how the narrative lapses from the lofty ideals of romance to the baser “truth” of chick-…
Abagyenda bareeba. Those who Travel, See’
Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish explores the migratory experiences of the main narrator-focalizer, Christine Mugisha, as she travels from Uganda to the United States of America. Although the analyses of home, exile, and migration by writers like Edward Said and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza tend to be ungendered; Baingana seems to elaborate on these concerns by reflecting on the gendered experience of travel. As Carole Boyce Davies has argued, the act of t…
Young, black and female in post-apartheid South Africa
A new kind of woman, one who occupies a distinctive subject position, is emerging in South African literature. This is the young black female growing up between cultures, trying on different identities, and evaluating new forms of affiliation. Kopano Matlwa, author of Coconut, is representative of a new generation of women writers who focus on issues of young black femininity in post-apartheid South Africa. Coconut features two black teenage fema…
On the fringes of society’ and ‘out of the closest’
Gibson Ncube's ‘Sexual/Textual Politics: Rethinking gender and sexuality in gay Moroccan literature’ focuses on an emerging body of gay literature that is developing within the larger framework of
Abagyenda bareeba. Those who Travel, See’
Doreen Baingana’s Tropical Fish explores the migratory experiences of the main narrator-focalizer, Christine Mugisha, as she travels from Uganda to the United States of America. Although the analyses of home, exile, and migration by writers like Edward Said and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza tend to be ungendered; Baingana seems to elaborate on these concerns by reflecting on the gendered experience of travel. As Carole Boyce Davies has argued, the act of t…
Roundtable review
Not the story you wanted to hear
J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime has been widely explored – both for its controversy and merits – as engaging in “acts of genre” where the inscription of an autobiographical narrative simultaneously serves as a metatextual and ideological critique of its form. Similarly, this article is intrigued by generic instability, but our terrain lies further afield, exploring how the narrative lapses from the lofty ideals of romance to the baser “truth” of chick-…
Gender and Popular Imaginaries in Africa
Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Politics (2 works)