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Part literary theory, part feminist historiography, this book examines novels in English by black South African women writers who shaped the literary landscape of South African fiction writing.
Part literary history, part feminist historiography And Wrote My Story Anyway: Black South African Women’s Novels as Feminism critically examines influential novels by eminent black female writers. Studying these writers’ key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during apartheid and the transition to democracy, Barbara Boswell traces the ways in which black women’s fiction interrogates narrow ideas of nationalism. She examines who is included and excluded, while producing alternative visions for a more just South African society. This is an erudite analysis of ten well-known South African writers, spanning the apartheid and post-apartheid era: Miriam Tlali, Lauretta Ngcobo, Farida Karodia, Agnes Sam, Sindiwe Magona, Zoë Wicomb, Rayda Jacobs, Yvette Christiansë, Kagiso Lesego Molope and Zukiswa Wanner. Boswell argues that black women’s fiction could and should be read as a subversive site of knowledge production. Reading their fiction as theory, these writers’ works are placed in sustained conversation with each other, producing an arc of feminist criticism that speaks forcefully back to the abuse of a racist, white-dominated, patriarchal power.
Acknowledgements Author’s Preface Acronyms Introduction ‘… And Wrote My Story Anyway’: Black South African Women’s Fiction and the Nation Chapter 1 Writing as Activism: A History of Black South African Women’s Writing Chapter 2 Rewriting the Apartheid Nation: Miriam Tlali and Lauretta Ngcobo Chapter 3 Dissenting Daughters: Girlhood and Nation in the Fiction of Farida Karodia and Agnes Sam Chapter 4 Interrogating ‘Truth’ in the Post-Apartheid Nation: Zoë Wicomb and Sindiwe Magona Chapter 5 Making Personhood; Remaking History in Yvette Christiansë and Rayda Jacobs’s Neo-Slave Narratives Chapter 6 Black Women Writing ‘New’ South African Masculinities: Kagiso Lesego Molopes and Zukiswa Wanner Conclusion Literature as Theory: Towards a Black South African Feminist Criticism Select Bibliography Index