Devarakshanam Govinden - Imagined South Africa: Sister Outsiders : The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings download ebook MOBI, TXT, PDF
9781868882960 1868882969 "In many ways 'Sister Outsiders': The Representation if Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women is a revelatory text. It places the whole field of Indian women's writings in South Africa in perspective within the context of the country's and women's writing, filling a significant gap. The gap has asrisen on two counts: first, Indian texts were long neglected and even suppressed by the apartheid government as many of those texts were considered subversive and second, South African women are still struggling for full recognition of their intellectual, academic and commercial efforts. Both these issues are sensitively and yet fully addressed in this work. At the same time it highlights the high quality of the prose of South African Indian women and adds to the historiography of South Africa."--BOOK JACKET., Sister outsiders draws attention to a neglected corpus of writing in South African literary criticism. The focus is on the exclusion of Indian womens writings in South Africa, which must be seen as a dimension of the larger exclusion of womens writings, white and black, from South African literature in general. The book provides an historical account of the events that contributed to the marginalisation of black literature - specifically Indian womens literature - amongst other things, the institutionalisation of English Studies which affected the reading and reception of texts written by Indian women, and the contstruction of an indigenous English literary tradition that did not include black writers as much as it did white writers of English descent, writing about South African experiences.
9781868882960 1868882969 "In many ways 'Sister Outsiders': The Representation if Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women is a revelatory text. It places the whole field of Indian women's writings in South Africa in perspective within the context of the country's and women's writing, filling a significant gap. The gap has asrisen on two counts: first, Indian texts were long neglected and even suppressed by the apartheid government as many of those texts were considered subversive and second, South African women are still struggling for full recognition of their intellectual, academic and commercial efforts. Both these issues are sensitively and yet fully addressed in this work. At the same time it highlights the high quality of the prose of South African Indian women and adds to the historiography of South Africa."--BOOK JACKET., Sister outsiders draws attention to a neglected corpus of writing in South African literary criticism. The focus is on the exclusion of Indian womens writings in South Africa, which must be seen as a dimension of the larger exclusion of womens writings, white and black, from South African literature in general. The book provides an historical account of the events that contributed to the marginalisation of black literature - specifically Indian womens literature - amongst other things, the institutionalisation of English Studies which affected the reading and reception of texts written by Indian women, and the contstruction of an indigenous English literary tradition that did not include black writers as much as it did white writers of English descent, writing about South African experiences.