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Sindiwe Magona's To My Children's Children and Mother to Mother. A Customised Womanist Notion of Home within Feminist Perspectives

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dc.contributor.author Rafapa, Lesibana
dc.date.accessioned 2017-05-29T12:03:57Z
dc.date.available 2017-05-29T12:03:57Z
dc.date.issued 2017-05-05
dc.identifier doi: 10.18178/ijssh.2017.V7.835
dc.identifier.citation Rafapa, L., 2017, Sindiwe Magona.s To My Children's Children adn Mother to Mother. A Customised Womanist Notion of Home within Feminist Perspectives', Internationa Journal of Social Science and Humanity 7(5), doiL10.18178/ijssh.2017.7.5.835. en
dc.identifier.issn 2010-3646
dc.identifier.issn 2010-3646
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22611
dc.description Funding from Unisa research office enabled me to complete and present this paper at an international scientific conference prior to publication. en
dc.description.abstract In this paper I discuss the intersection of global feminism and Magona's refracted womanism in her major autobiographies To My Children's Children and Mother to Mother, utilizing the concept of home. I argue that Magona's notion of feminism has developed as she was interacting with shifting orientations of various sub-groups of feminism across the ages. This is why I analyse her two works in order to trace influences of second and third wave feminisms, in exploring the continuum of her own brand of feminism. I probe Magona's valuing of identity as a tool for liberation. I proceed to exhibit that the feminist discourse of Magona's two major works consistently identifies with a layer of 1970s third wave or new generation feminists who sought to move subjugated voices from the periphery to the centre. I use the perspectives outlined above to scrutinize Magona's two major workds in a manner showing her to craft her nuanced idea of home dialectically within the development of global feminist theory even as I show how she appropriated the theory. en
dc.description.sponsorship University of South Africa en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES en
dc.title Sindiwe Magona's To My Children's Children and Mother to Mother. A Customised Womanist Notion of Home within Feminist Perspectives en
dc.type Article en
dc.description.department English Studies en


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