Conversations of Motherhood

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-86914-288-9
Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

The subject of motherhood is interwoven with themes of survival, power and identity. It is also at the heart of any consideration of women’s writing.

Conversations of Motherhood sensitively charts common themes, intersecting experiences and related tropes within the cultural specificities of South African society. Exploring this space, in turn, provides a lens for cross-cultural reading that draws on various local ways of knowing and the workings of agency.

‘Dialogics’, the critical approach developed here, lies at the intersection of transnational feminist criticism, a postcolonial critique of modernity and a close exploration of Mikhail Bakhtin’s work. This method offers striking rewards when comparatively pairing Zoë Wicomb with Pamphilia Hlapa, Sindiwe Magona with Marlene van Niekerk, Ellen Kuzwayo with Antjie Krog and Elsa Joubert with Wilma Stockenström.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robbe, Ksenia

Über Autor(innen)

Ksenia Robbe was trained at the Universities of St Petersburg and Giessen, Russia. She is an assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society where her research focuses on the manifestations of contemporary South African culture as well as transnational connections and comparisons of literature and art in different post-imperial contexts.