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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
'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 ...
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 ...
“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, ...
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 ...
New myths, new scripts: revisionist mythopoeia in contemporary South African women’s poetry

Byrne, Deirdre (2014-05-15)

Considerable theoretical and critical work has been done on the way British and American women poets re-vision (Rich 1976) male-centred myth. Some South African women poets have also used similar strategies. My article ...
Womanspace: The underground and the labyrinth in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea narratives

Douglas, Lynette; Byrne, Deirdre (2014-05-15)

Ursula K. Le Guin’s renowned Earthsea cycle, spanning 20 years and five texts, is often acknowledged to be a textual space for the creative exploration and interrogation of gender. The two spaces in the title – ‘earth’ and ...
Fanon's perspective on intercultural communication in postcolonial South Africa

Sonderling, Stefan (Communitas: Journal for Community Communication & Information Impact, 2014-11-30)

This article develops a Fanonian perspective to understand intercultural communication in postcolonial South Africa. Apartheid’s demise is communicated as a moral victory over evil and South African whites are persuaded ...
The Gender Implications of the Immigration Regulations of South Africa on “career wives” : An African Feminist Perspective

Chisale, Sinenhlanhla Sithulisiwe (2015-06-24)

The search by South Africa for scarce skills that contribute to the economic development of the country attracted many people around the world, particularly Africa to migrate to this country for economic purposes. Among ...
Successful ageing amongst elderly women living independently in central areas of Pretoria, South Africa

Rabe, Marlize (CODESRIA, 2015-12-15)

Using a qualitative research approach, in-depth interviews were employed to explore the life circumstances of twelve elderly women living alone in the central areas of Pretoria, South Africa. The Pretoria central areas ...
Feminist scholarship and the 'performative university'; a book review of Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship, An Ethnography of Academia by Maria Do Mar Pereira

Vráblíková, Lenka (2018)

How do scholars in countries such as Portugal, the US, the UK, or Scandinavia situate feminist scholarship in the current academia? How is the claim to scientificity in women’s, gender, and feminist studies (WGFS) produced ...
Othering Mushrooms: Migratism and its racist entanglements in the Brexit campaign

Vráblíková, Lenka (Lectito, 2021-02-01)

Mushrooms have long occupied a highly ambivalent position in the cultural imagination, inciting disgust and fear, as well as wonder and fascination. Neither plants, nor animals, they grow up unexpectedly but also in regular ...

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