- Title
- Intersection of race, gender and class in the interventional life-writings of four selected South African authors
- Creator
- Ndlovu, Siphatisiwe Patricia
- Description
- The interventional life writings of second generation life writers (young, black, middleclass South Africans) in post-apartheid South Africa have not attracted much academic debate in spite of the burgeoning of such writings recently. The intersection of race, class and gender in post-apartheid South Africa remains a problem and a rich site of research, hence this research’s reading of four selected life writings by young, black, middle-class South Africans living in post-apartheid South Africa: Fred Khumalo’s Touch My Blood: The Early Years (2006), Malaika Wa Azania’s Memoires of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation (2014), Khaya Dlanga’s To Quote Myself (2015) and Tumi Morake’s And Then Mama Said… Words That Set My Life Alight (2018). Using the intersectional approach, the study explores the lives narrated by second generation South Africans, in a manner similar to the grand narratives because of their historical and social context. The study focalises life/self-writers who have experienced post-apartheid trauma of being racialized, gendered and classed in a democratic country. This is a shift from the staple analysis of lives of political struggle against apartheid, narrated by historical legends such as Nelson Mandela. The study then, by focusing on ‘small voices’ closes a critical gap created by over-attention paid to grand narratives in South African life writing. Self-narrations by young, black, middle-class South Africans emerge not only as a way of narrating history but also as a means of making history. Through the deployment of the intersectional approach (the interconnectedness of inequalities) to analyse the systems of oppression associated with democratic South Africa, the four selected interventional life writers reveal how their experiences and identities are an outcome of constantly renegotiating power relations.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Subject
- Post-apartheid era -- South Africa
- Subject
- Interventional writing
- Subject
- Fred Khumalo
- Subject
- Malaika wa Azania
- Subject
- Khaya Dlanga
- Subject
- Tumi Morake
- Type
- Master's theses, text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3414
- Identifier
- vital:43345
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (102 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Walter Sisulu University, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University, All Rights Reserved, Open Access
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