In this article I examine the representations of South African Indian women in Farida
Karodia's Daughters of the Twilight and Shamim Sarif's the world unseen. My contention
is that each author chooses a different mode of representation and that certain features
of these representations suggest both the different relationship each author has with
South Africa and the differences in the times of production of the novels. Thus while both
novels are set in the 1950s, Karodia, whose site of enunciation is the 'interregnum' in the
1980s, imagines the agency of her women quite differently from Sarif, who writes from a
'post-anti-apartheid' site of enunciation in the late 1990s. I analyse and compare the
relationships between characters (men and women; women and women) and look at the
cultural and political significance of mixed-race figures, concentrating on uncovering the
mechanisms of power and their effects. I read these against a politico-historical context
of the setting and that of the times and places of production. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2003.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/4118 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Dannewitz, Antoinette. |
| Contributors | Daymond, Margaret Joan. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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