Space, Place, and Gendered Violence in South African Writing

S. Gunne

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781137453426
• eBook ISBN: 9781137442680
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: African Literary Criticism
• Index: Social Sciences

Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. Writers covered include: Hilda Bernstein, J.M. Coetzee, Achmat Dangor, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Antjie Krog.

Index

activists

creation of within prison system, 52–3, 63

deactivation of, prison system, 46–7, 55–7, 71, 73–5, 84–5

detention as rite of passage, 68–9

prison as a rite of passage, 50–1, 60, 61–2, 63

in Robben Island, 52

role of white revolutionaries, 48–50, 62–4, 92

role of women, 22, 23, 66

state repression and, 110

white women, prison status, 48–50

women as secondary activists, 121

women in prison, 48–50, 51

African National Congress (ANC)

abuse of women activists, non-documentation of, 22, 23

activists in Robben Island, 52

elections, post-apartheid era, 40

and the South African Communist Party, 63

Aguirre, Michael, 31–2

Apartheid. See also spatial segregation; workers, movement of

continuities/discontinuities with post-apartheid, 41–2

and the continuum of history, 21–2

difference experiences of, 64

education under apartheid, 158–9

function of prisons within, 46–7

as interregnum, 8, 33–4, 40

male selfhood and sacrificial violence, 168–9

rape of female activists, 22–3

status of white women, 48–50

writing as defiance, 110–11

apartheid prison memoirs, 45–6, 51–2, 53. See also First, Ruth (117 Days: An account of confinement and interrogation under the South African 90-day detention law); Makhoere, Caesarina Kona No Child’s Play: In Prison Under apartheid

Ash, Paul, 146

Barnard, Rita, 92, 97, 107, 110, 111, 143–4

Basso, Keith, 71–2

Baudrillard, Jean, 80

beaches, as liminal spaces, 116

Benjamin, Jessica, 4

Bernstein, Hilda The World That Was Ours

liminality of South Africa, 1, 33–4

spatial dimension of apartheid, 91–3, 106

as white woman activist, 92

Bhabha, Homi K., 31, 32

Bjorke...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• One  Introduction: Gendered Violence, Liminality, and South African Writing
• Two  Writing Prison and Political Struggle
• Three  Liminal Landscapes and Segregated Spaces
• Four  Train Journeys and Border Lines
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index