My concern in this thesis is to assess if one can justifiably say that there is a unique black
South African feminist perspective. I have chosen to focus on the feminist perspectives
of two renowned black female African writers: Bessie Head (1937-1988) and Ellen
Kuzwayo (1914-). I have several reasons for selecting these two writers for my
investigation. Head and Kuzwayo, though obviously not exact contemporaries
chronologically speaking, were contemporaries in the sense that they lived through, and
wrote during, the time of apartheid rule in South Africa. Both can be considered as
revolutionaries in their own right. Both used the traditional story telling literary device
and the autobiographical genre differently but strikingly. They could both be called
social feminists because they were both concerned with social justice, equality, racism,
personal identity and upliftment of the community. I argue that the works of these
writers have shown defmable feminist perspectives that suggest that, indeed, there is a
South African Black Women's feminist perspective. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2003.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/10371 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Dlomo, Venetia Nokukhanya. |
| Contributors | Stiebel, Lindy. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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