Beyond boundaries:  deterritorialisation and identity in Unity Dow's Far and beyon’

Kalua, Fetson

dc.contributor.author	Kalua, Fetson
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-24T12:28:16Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-24T12:28:16Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier.citation	Fetson Kalua (2007) Beyond boundaries:, Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa, 12:2, 75-83, DOI: 10.1080/18125440701751984	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125440701751984
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13281
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dc.description.abstract	The question of identity occupies a prominent place in the fiction of Unity Dow. This paper explores the problematic and fluid nature of identity in her first novel, Far and beyon’. Mosa's progression in behaviour throughout the novel, not only her refusal to remain slavishly uncritical regarding matters of culture and identity, but also the way she becomes identified and differentiated by the attainment of her freedom, will be used as a matrix against which the concept of fluidity of identity is measured. The paper uses Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's deconstructionist and fluid notions of deterritorialisation, assemblage and the rhizome to demonstrate that as Mosa tries to transcend the hierarchies of power in her society, she articulates identity as something that overflows those boundaries. The notion of identity as ‘becoming’ takes centre stage as she begins to perceive the world differently. Download full text	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Routledge Taylor & Francis	en
dc.title	Beyond boundaries: deterritorialisation and identity in Unity Dow's Far and beyon’	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.description.department	English Studies	en