Tangible voice-throwing: empowering corporeal discourses in African women's writing of Southern Africa

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2004

Diese Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem Körperdiskurs in der Literatur von Frauen aus dem Südlichen Afrika. Eine zentrale These von Bettina Weiss ist, dass Frauen nicht stimmlos sind, sondern dass sie über ihr Schreiben ein machtvolles, befreiendes Potenzial besitzen. Die Autorin analysiert Werke von Neshani Andreas, Namibia (The Purple Violet of Oshaantu), Dianne Case, Südafrika (Toasted Penis and Cheese), Bessie Head, Südafrika/Botswana (A Question of Power; The Collector of Treasures), Rayda Jacobs, Südafrika (The Middle Children), J. Nozipo Maraire, Simbabwe (Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter), Nisa, Botswana (Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman), Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya, Lesotho (Basali! Stories by and about Women in Lesotho), Virginia Phiri, Simbabwe (Desperate), Yvonne Vera, Simbabwe (Under the Tongue) und Zoe Wicomb, Südafrika (You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town; David's Story). Thematische Schwerpunkte sind Körper und Identität, Scham, Homoerotik, Prostitution etc. Contents: "Women have a mouth": re-theorising voicelessness - Methodological approach to Southern African women's writing - Specification of study - Women's authority, voicing, and writing in Southern Africa - Kaleidoscopic views: body, space, and identity in The Middle Children and Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter - The corporeal as a site of shame and redefinition in the novels of Zoë Wicomb - Shades of utter(ing) silences (analysing works of Neshani Andreas, Bessie Head, and Yvonne Vera) - "Exciting" speech in Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman - Re-mapping and recycling the phallic in Toasted Penis and Cheese - The bond(age) of love: A Question of Power - Homoerotic desire in Southern African literatures - There is no such thing as monsters: prostitute discourses in "Life" and Desperate.