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Doris Lessing, Yvonne Vera: comparative views of Zimbabwe /Rathke, Annemarie. January 2008 (has links)
Zugl.: Duisburg, Essen, University, Diss., 2008.
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Subject and history in selected works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen /Falk, Erik, January 2007 (has links)
Diss. Karlstad : Karlstads universitet, 2007.
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Subject and history in selected works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen /Falk, Erik, January 2007 (has links)
Diss. Karlstad : Karlstads universitet, 2007.
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„Standing on the outside‟. Woman's search for identity in Yvonne Vera's Why don't you carve other animals and Without a nameThabela, Tumisang 09 1900 (has links)
The main purpose of this study is to discuss Yvonne Vera‟s representation of various aspects of women‟s identity in a patriarchal and colonial context as they manifest themselves through the women‟s relationships. I explore ways in which the question of self for some of Vera‟s women seems characterised by marginalisation across racial, cultural, ethnic and generational divides. The short stories and novel studied seem to emphasise that for women, under patriarchy and colonialism in Zimbabwe, seeking an independent and fulfilling identity seems to be interpreted as defying society‟s expectations and dictates. However, even as Vera tells of the various women‟s failure to make breakthroughs, she points at a less gender- inflexible future where both men and women will be valued for their true worth, and not their mere biology, through foregrounding the women‟s stories as they challenge and subvert their societies‟ received norms, traditions and values. / English / M.A. (English)
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Violent subject(ivitie)s : a comparative study of violence and subjectivity in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, J.M. Coetzee, and Yvonne VeraPhiri, Aretha Myrah Muterakuvanthu January 2014 (has links)
This thesis examines the links between and intersections of violence and subjectivity in a comparative, transatlantic and transnational study of the fiction of four recognized international authors, namely, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, J. M. Coetzee, and Yvonne Vera. Despite their differing geographical, temporal, cultural and socio-political situations and situatedness, these writers’ common, thematic concerns with taboo topics of violence such as rape, incest, infanticide and necrophilia, situate violence as a constitutive, intimate and intricate part of subjectivity. In providing varied, and not unproblematic, renderings of the mutuality of violence and subjectivity, their novels do not just reveal the ambiguous and ambivalent character and the fragile and tenuous processes of (exercising and asserting) subjectivity; their fiction enacts and engenders its own kind of textual violence that reflects and refracts the (metaphysical and epistemological) violence of the subjective process. Raising crucial questions about the place, role and efficacy of literature in articulating violence and subjectivity, this thesis argues that violence is meaningful to and constitutive of the subjective process in these authors’ works that offer an experiential, lived appreciation of subjectivity. Providing an historical and socio-political contextualization of the novels, the thesis maintains that these authors’ specific interpretations of violence in their fiction necessarily interrogates and reconfigures questions of race and culture, gender and sexuality, as well as morality; that is, it reexamines and repositions conventional interpretations of being and belonging, of subjectivity in general. In this way, their fiction reveals literature’s ability not merely to disprove theory but, through its very textuality, extend and enhance it to reflect the materiality of being.
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Women and utterance in contexts of violence : Nehanda, Without a name and The strange virgins by Yvonne Vera.Mukiwa, Faresi Rumbidzai. January 2006 (has links)
This dissertation is a study of women and utterance in contexts of violence in the three selected novels written by the late Yvonne Vera: Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), and The Stone Virgins (2002). A study of the representation of women in particular is appropriate because their role in the making of the history of Zimbabwe has been deliberately undermined or ignored by 'patriotic' historians and politicians alike. This study incorporates a historical and post-colonial feminist analysis of women and their empowerment through utterance in Vera's novels. Their achieving utterance is seen as a way of countering a past tendency to focus on women being victims of patriarchal ideologies with little being done to expose the degree and nature of women's resistance against oppressive, socially constructed gender relations. The kind of violence experienced by Vera's women is both physical (rape and murder) and psychological. Two dimensions of utterance have been explored in this study. Firstly, the study examined what the characters can and cannot say about their conditions of suffering. This entailed an examination of their cultural and contextual limitations as well as their personal difficulties. Secondly, the study investigated how Vera, writing some fifteen years after the events she depicts and with the advantage of hindsight, represents her women characters as agents of their own recovery from the violation perpetrated against them. This involved an analysis of Vera's utterance and her thematic concerns, especially her revisioning of history in breaking the silence of her women characters. Positioned in relation to existing critical works on Vera's novels, this study's contribution to the critical debate has been its demonstration of how Vera, through the use of her narrative technique and unique poetic style was able to challenge the conditions of women in the past in a way that has relevance to present-day Zimbabwe and offers possibilities for the future Zimbabwe. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.
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Third World' female experience in Africa and the USA as represented in four novels by Yvonne Vera and Toni MorrisonWellmann, Julie Gail 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The following thesis aims to place black, female
experience at the centre of an analysis of four main
texts. These texts are Yvonne Vera's Nehanda and Without
a Name as well as Toni Morrison' s Song of Solomon and
Beloved. By comparing and analysing these four novels,
also utilising selected works from various theorists such
as bell hooks and Chandra Mohanty, "mainstream" feminist
theory is interrogated. Different political and social
contexts are examined from the perspectives of writers
and theorists that have conventionally been relegated to
the margins of literary theory. The experiences of black
people all over the world are marginalised and this
thesis attempts to examine these texts without assuming
that the experiences of the characters are "different" or
"other". The first chapter focuses mainly on Morrison' s
Song of Solomon but used Vera's Nehanda to comment on
some spiritual similarities between an African female
character and an African American female character.
Chapter two focuses more strongly on African,
specifically Zimbabwean, female experience during the
second war of independence (or Chimurenga) in Zimbabwe. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Solomon, maar maak gebruik van Vera se Nehanda om Die
tesis analiseer vier hooftekste vanuit die perspektief
van swart, vroulike ervaring. Die tekste is Yvonne Vera
se Nehanda en. Without a Name, sowel as Toni Morrison se
Song of Solomon en Beloved. Hierdie vier romans word
vergelyk. en ook, met die hulp van geselekteerde werke van
verskeie teoretici soos bell hooks en Chandra Mohanty,
geanaliseer in 'n poging om "hoofstroom" feministiese
teorie krities te benader. Verskillende sosiaal-politiese
kontekste word ondersoek, spesifiek vanuit die
perspektiewe van skrywers en teoretici wat konvensioneel
gesproke gereduseer is tot die marges van literere
teorie. Teen die agtergrond van die gemarginaliseerde
ervaringe van swart mense regoor die wereld, probeer die
tesis om hierdie tekste te analiseer sonder om te aanvaar
dat die ervaringe van die karakters "verskillend" of
"anders" is. Die eerste hoofstuk fokus hoofsaaklik op
Morrison se Song of kommentaar te lewer op die spirituele
ooreenkomste tussen 'n swart vroulike karakter uit Afrika
en 'n Afro-Amerikaanse vroulike karakter. Hoofstuk twee
fokus skerper op 'n Afrika, en spesifiek Zimbabwiese,
vroulike ervaring gedurende die tweede
onafhanklikheidsoorlog in daardie land.
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„Standing on the outside‟. Woman's search for identity in Yvonne Vera's Why don't you carve other animals and Without a nameThabela, Tumisang 09 1900 (has links)
The main purpose of this study is to discuss Yvonne Vera‟s representation of various aspects of women‟s identity in a patriarchal and colonial context as they manifest themselves through the women‟s relationships. I explore ways in which the question of self for some of Vera‟s women seems characterised by marginalisation across racial, cultural, ethnic and generational divides. The short stories and novel studied seem to emphasise that for women, under patriarchy and colonialism in Zimbabwe, seeking an independent and fulfilling identity seems to be interpreted as defying society‟s expectations and dictates. However, even as Vera tells of the various women‟s failure to make breakthroughs, she points at a less gender- inflexible future where both men and women will be valued for their true worth, and not their mere biology, through foregrounding the women‟s stories as they challenge and subvert their societies‟ received norms, traditions and values. / English / M.A. (English)
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The representation of marginalized voices and trauma in selected novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne VeraSisimayi, Weston 09 1900 (has links)
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-91) / My thesis focuses on the representation of marginalized voices and trauma in the selected fiction of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera. I analyze three novels written by the Yvonne Vera—Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue(1996) and The Stone Virgins(2002) set during the Zimbabwe liberation struggle period and postcolonial Zimbabwe dissident era respectively and Nervous Conditions(1988) and its sequel, The Book of Not (1996), by Dangarembga set during the 1960s to 1970s colonial Rhodesia period (the colonial name for Zimbabwe) and during the period of white‐minority rule in Rhodesia to the attainment of independence in 1980.
I analyze these novels from the feminist/womanist, gender and postcolonial literary models. The rational for grouping these theoretical models in the analysis in this thesis is that they commonly highlight from a gender perspective the complex factors which oppress and marginalize women in the colonial and postcolonial contexts in which the two authors set their writings. These literary paradigms highlight the oppression of women from an African perspective and all acknowledge the need to address all factors which oppress and subordinate women (gender, race, class) if total emancipation for them is to be achieved. I also posit that Vera and Dangarembga offer discourses that challenge the silencing of narratives of oppression and violation in their novels selected for analysis in this thesis.
The thesis has five chapters. In Chapter 1, I set out the argument of the thesis and give a brief history of gendered colonialism and the historical period which provides a setting for the fiction of the two authors. Next, I describe the conceptual framework I will use in analyzing the works of the two postcolonial Zimbabwe female writers. Then I will outline the research questions and hypothesis and expose the research methodology and approach that will serve as my vehicle for data collection, analysis and interpretation.
In Chapter 2, I will focus on gender, class and race and discuss the ways Dangarembga explores these factors in Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not. I will also discuss innovate ways women explore to champion their freedom and voice in the fiction of Dangarembga.
Chapter 3 focuses on the novels of Yvonne Vera— Without a Name, Under the Tongue and The stone Virgins —which articulate narratives of violated subjects and silenced voices. I will discuss the ways Vera explores to show how narratives of violated subjects are silenced by patriarchy, colonialism and masculine narratives of nationalism in these novels. Chapter 4 focuses on narratives of trauma. Using theories of trauma, I will analyze Without a Name, Under the Tongue and The Stone Virgins by Vera and show how these narratives articulate colonial and postcolonial trauma and female child trauma. I will also discuss The Book of Not by Dangarembga and show how the novel articulates colonial and racial trauma. My discussion of the novels of Vera and Dangarembga in this chapter will show that these novels work out traumatic experiences in the colonial and postcolonial eras and will also reveal the challenges of representing tra / English Studies / M.A. (English)
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The Zimbabwean nation as cultural construct in the works of John Eppel, Dambudzo Marechera and Yvonne VeraMangwanda, Khombe M 30 August 2006 (has links)
Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document / Thesis (DLitt (English))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / English / unrestricted
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