In the heart of the country
The auto/biographies of Ayesha Dawood and Fatima Meer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3606928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F Fiona Moolla (0000-0001-7809-2222, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 150-163 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533952.2020.1747739 |
| OpenAlex | W3015423568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
South African struggle auto/biography has been a male-dominated genre in which the political has correspondingly dominated the personal. These life narratives have presented the formation of relatively coherent, autonomous selfhoods constructing a stable narrative of anti-Apartheid political history. Male struggle auto/biography hassince the 1980 s been counterbalanced by female auto/biography, existing in the margins of social and historical discourse. In the post-2000 period, a number of struggle auto/biographies have been published which appear to shift the prevailing norms of the genre to highlight the relationality of subject constitution, in which the family has been presented as the most significant matrix of self-formation. The proposed paper considers the curious case of two recent auto/biographies that position eros at the heart of activist self-realisation. Inextricably connected romantic and political relationships are tracked in the life narrative by Zubeida Jaffer, Love in the Time of Treason: The Life Story of Ayesha Dawood, and Fatima Meer’s Memories of Love and Struggle. The article questions the significance of the foregrounding of intimacy in the constitution and the representation of the female (activist) subject
Art · Art history · Biography · Constitution · Foregrounding · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Realisation · Romance · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |