The Very House of Difference
Race, Gender and the Politics of South African Women's Narrative in Poppie Nongena
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2932755 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Mcclintock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Issue | 25/26 |
| Pages | 196 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Text (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/466247 |
| OpenAlex | W2075092810 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 5 |
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and
Art · Courage · Creativity · Denial · Dialectic · Epistemology · Interdependence · Literature · Narrative · Physics · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · South African History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |