Feminism and the politics of identity in Ingrid de Kok’s Familiar Ground
| Autor: | Mashudu C. Mashige |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Oppression Emancipation Literature and Literary Theory Poetry lcsh:PL8000-8844 media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Context (language use) Gender studies Feminism gender identity phallocentric South African English poetry Feminism lcsh:African languages and literature Politics Negotiation gender Sociology phallocentric identity South African English poetry media_common |
| Zdroj: | Tydskrif vir letterkunde; Vol 48, No 2 (2011) Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, Vol 48, Iss 2 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 0041-476X 2309-9070 |
| Popis: | Through an analysis of selected representative poems from Ingrid de Kok’s Familiar Ground, this article examines the role played by feminist poetry in the quest to address gender-related issues as well as to contribute constructively to South Africa’s liberation from patriarchal apartheid. The article further argues that feminist writers desire to (re)negotiate the space within which they can (re)construct and articulate their identities as women and mothers, and that in such a context the politics of identity cannot be detached from other aspects within the struggle for socio-political and economic emancipation. Thus characteristics of apartheid oppression are contrasted with the patriarchal domination opposed by feminist writers. |
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