The powers of discourse
The identity of subaltern women under colonial law in Nervous Conditions and Daughters of the Twilight
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156723 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy A Woodward (0000-0002-7935-739X, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author), Wendy Woodward (0000-0002-9886-1161) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-91 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719308530030 |
| OpenAlex | W2016799282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Subaltern women, their identities constructed within the margins of imperialist history, are subject to the privileged discourses of institutionalised medicine, education and the law. This essay focuses on how the laws of Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa, as well as customary law, circumscribe the corporeality of these women, and reads two narratives, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Daughters of the Twilight by Farida Karodia, in which female right is absent in the face of male law. The paper critiques relevant statutes, acts and court cases, and draws on Kristevan theory of the abject to discuss the representation of the black woman as pollutive and defiling in the apartheid cultural formation
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Statute · Subaltern · Twilight · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |