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Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
Alfred J. Lopez begins his introduction to postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire by stating "Whiteness is not, yet we continue for many reasons to act as though it is" (1). He is especially interested in "what happens to whiteness after empire," and proposes that it be understood as a dynamic relation of power. Despite the critical scrutiny it has attracted from whiteness studies, the racial category retains much of its ideological force. "The concept of whiteness as a cultural hegemon," Lopez argues, is manifest in "its lingering, if somewhat latent, hegemonic influence over much of the …
Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
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Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
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Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva
Tony Simoes da Silva
This essay examines two recent novels by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Purple Hibiscus ([2003] 2005) andHalf a YellowSun (2006), placing themfirst in a dialogue with each other, and more broadly with selected Nigerian writing on the Biafra conflict. Arguing with Adesanmi that Adichie belongs to a ‘third generation’ of African literary work, it traces the novels’ work of historical revisionism through gendered and embodied discourses of pain and violence. Adichie returns the reader to an aesthetics of excess firmly grounded on potently disturbing images of the ‘body in pain’, in Elaine Scarry’s memorable phrase (1983): the battered, bruised and …