Patriarchal forms of national community in post-apartheid literature
Re-examining ubuntu and gender in Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998) and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (2000)
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 9003066 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Amy Duvenage (0000-0002-0692-8737, Independent researcher, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2020 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 691-702 |
| Data de publicação | 2020-04-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Editora | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989420908049 |
| OpenAlex | W3016518646 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 12 |
Despite having been celebrated for autochthonous renewal, Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998) and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (2000) perpetuate ontological discourses of ubuntu that uphold patriarchal forms of national community. In these discourses of personhood, men function as subjects entitled to “moral arrival” whilst women are represented as women-in-community. Women are never in positions of authority. Consequently, neither men nor women can become fully human in the manner proposed by ubuntu in these texts
Personhood · Political science · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |