Space, place, and gendered violence in South African writing /

Space, place, and gendered violence in South African writing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gunne, Sorcha, 1980- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:	xix, 235 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	South African literature (English) -- History and criticism. Space and time in literature. Women in literature. Violence in literature. Liminality in literature. Liminality in literature. South African literature (English) Space and time in literature. Violence in literature. Women in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10121248

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ISBN:	9781137453426 1137453427
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book explores the relationship between space, place and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing. Gendered violence constitutes a unique form of violence because it is at once both intensely political and intensely personal. As a case study, South Africa offers considerable potential for analysis because the governmental technology of apartheid affected not only race relations, but also gendered and spatial ones. This resulted in conditions of exceptionality that operate on the levels of institutional power and political allegory, but yet had, and still have, an immense impact on the everyday. This book focuses on how narrative representations of gendered violence document, negotiate, challenge and resist structures of domination and power"--

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1. Introduction: Gendered Violence, Liminality, and South African Writing
2. Writing Prison and Political Struggle
3. Liminal Landscapes and Segregated Spaces
4. Train Journeys and Borderlines.