This study examines representations of Southern African black women in the works' of two male and two female writers. A comparative approach is used to review the ways in which the writers characterise women who labour ...

In promoting literacy, English educators should be concerned with the whole range of cultural products, since simple texts can reveal as much about culture, power, society and identity as many other seemingly more ...

Bessie Head was one of the Drum writers of the 1950s. As critics such as Huma Ibrahim have indicated it was only after her death in 1986 that she was included in discussions on the Drum generation. The result of her prior ...