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Feminism and the politics of identity in Ingrid de Kok’s Familiar Ground

Through an analysis of selected representative poems from Ingrid de Kok’s Familiar Ground, this article examines the role played
by feminist poetry in the quest to address gender-related issues as well as to contribute constructively to South Africa’s liberation
from patriarchal apartheid. The article further argues that feminist writers desire to (re)negotiate the space within which they
can (re)construct and articulate their identities as women and mothers, and that in such a context the politics of identity cannot
be detached from other aspects within the struggle for socio-political and economic emancipation. Thus characteristics of apartheid
oppression are contrasted with the patriarchal domination opposed by feminist writers.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1000684
Date04 July 2011
CreatorsMashige, MC
PublisherTydskrif vir letterkunde
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText
FormatPDF
RightsTydskrif vir letterkunde

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