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Africa has erred in its memory: exploring continuities and discontinuities in texts by Petina Gappah and Yvonne Vera

Murray, Jessica (Routledge, 2011)

In the short story collection Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals (1992) the Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera initiates her construction of alternative historical narratives, particularly ones that are able to voice women’s ...
“Binne ŉ halfuur het ek wit geword” : snypunte van gender, ras en klas in Suid-Afrikaanse fiksionele uitbeeldings van voorkoms

Murray, Jessica (Litnet Akademies, 2011)

This article explores how intersections of gender, race and class shape the evaluation of women’s appearance in selected South African works of fiction. These texts include Pat Stamatélos’ Kroes (2005), E.K.M. Dido’s ŉ ...
Daring to Speak Its Name: The Representation of a Lesbian Relationship in the Work of Rozena Maart

Murray, Jessica (Routledge, 2011)

This article explores the representation of a lesbian relationship in a contemporary South African short story. I take an intersectional approach to the reading of lesbianism and consider how the race, gender and the ...
Gender and violence in Cape slave narratives and post-narratives

Murray, Jessica (Routledge, 2010)

Although most slaves’ experience of slavery is lost to posterity, in some cases historians are fortunate enough to work with so-called slave narratives. The existence of many criminal court cases enables the historian ...
The ‘recidivist tongue’: embracing an embodied language of trauma

Murray, Jessica (Routledge, 2010)

This article analyses selected excerpts from the writing of Antjie Krog and Yvonne Vera in order to theorise strategies for overcoming the disjuncture between the mind and the body that tends to result from violence. ...
“Remembering the Short Stories of Yvonne Vera: A Postcolonial and Feminist reading of Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals?”

Murray, Jessica (African Journals Online, 2011)

The Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is one of the most important writers to emerge from the African continent over the last two decades. Although she has received widespread critical acclaim as well as academic scrutiny, ...
'They can never write the landscapes out of their system': engagements with the South African landscape

Murray, Jessica; Murray, Jessica (Routledge, 2011)

This article explores the ways in which the South African author Antjie Krog challenges imperial and patriarchal assumptions about bodies and landscapes in order to enable an embodied engagement with the South African ...
Tremblings in the distinction between fiction and testimony

Murray, Jessica (Open Humanties Press, 2008)

Fiction as a genre not only tends to be disregarded as testimony, fiction and testimony are often seen as mutually exclusive. By using a Derridean model of testimony, I aim to break down the division between fiction and ...
When 'good' mothers kill: A representation of infanticide

Murray, Jessica (Routledge, 2008)

This article explores Yvette Christiansë’s (2006) representation of an act of infanticide by the character of Sila van den Kaap in the novel Unconfessed. I will illustrate how the novel deconstructs idealised assumptions ...

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