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A Gesture of Defiance: Selected Texts by Black South African Women Writers
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The emergence of a tradition of autobiographical writing by Black South African women accentuates the contributions of an alternative, matrilineal line of heroes and women writers to an alternative history of the country.Abstract:
Summary The emergence of a tradition of autobiographical writing by Black South African women accentuates the contributions of an alternative, matrilineal line of heroes and women writers to an alternative history of the country. In shaping their own identities and in countering the prescriptions of the authorities with alternative scripts, these women engage in a gesture of defiance. One aspect of this defiance in texts which thematise the imperative for nation‐building within the context of political oppression is the emphasis they place on the continuity between the self and her community.read more
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A Bibliography of Critical and Related Works on Selected Black South African Writers, Published in Southern Africa, 2000-2013
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Linking private and public personal and political transition in Sindiwe Magona's forced to grow.
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Changing our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, theory, and Writing by Black Women.@@@Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afra-American Culture and the Contemporary Literary Renaissance.@@@Black American Women Novelists: An Annotated Bibliography.
TL;DR: This article explore the relationship of criticism, theory and writing in works by black women, focusing on the idea of changing words, a recurrent figure in the prose of Zora Neale Hurston.
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
TL;DR: Bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion as discussed by the authors, and she believed that speaking up was a gesture of defiance that heals, making new life and new growth possible.
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Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical
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Black Women, Writing and Identity : Migrations of the Subject
TL;DR: Boyce-Davies' Black Women Writing and Identity as discussed by the authors explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering* gender, language and the politics of location