Bettina Weiss: The End of Unheard Narratives
Anna 10. September 2008
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Bettina Weiss: The End of Unheard Narratives : Contemporary Perspectives on Southern African Literatures
This study focuses on contemporary literatures of the southern African region and brings together the work of scholars who cover pressing questions about the constructions of Othering, about locked-away-narratives - stories which are regarded as anathema to society or narratives about the female teras or the twisted ‘reality’ of the construction of the family, the nation, or history. Their work comprises aspects of the implementation of strategic devices which are used to justify and reinforce these constructions, but it also elaborates the strategies which hold the potential to subvert and destabilise rigid conceptions. The study reflects on issues such as the diverse modes of portraying HIV/AIDS in literatures of South Africa and Zimbabwe; it examines the socio-(homo)sexual experiences of Black Men in South Africa; it traces the traumatic transitions in Namibia from the war to its aftermath, read through the prism of gender; it proposes homoerotic readings of Black women’s desires; and it demonstrates how ’speaking’ textiles function as a recurrent image for the contradictions inherent in the postcolonial voice and how they offer new structures to tackle silence. This collection is united by the contributors’ attempts to lift the veil from unheard narratives by moving them from the margin to the centre of discussion. The essays vividly demonstrate that the end of unheard narratives, as the title of this book reads, holds a double-sided implication.
The Editor: Bettina Weiss received her PhD in the field of gender and body discourse in African women’s writing of Southern Africa at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
The Contributors: Lizzy Attree, Katrin Berndt, Dorothy Driver, Bevelyn Dube, Jessica Hemmings, Robert Muponde, Agnes Muriungi, Tom Odhiambo, Margie Orford, Charles Pfukwa, Meg Samuelson, Annemarié van Niekerk, and Bettina Weiss.
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