Tangible Voice-Throwing: Empowering Corporeal Discourses in African Women’s Writing of Southern Africa: v. 408 (European University Studies, Series 14: Anglo-Saxon Language & Literature) - Softcover

Weiss, Bettina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631533020 ISBN 13: 9783631533024

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2004

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This study is the first book-length analysis of African women's writing of Southern Africa with a focus on writing the body. The thesis is that women are not voiceless, but hold a powerful, liberating potential: they «throw their voices» by implementing a strategic corporeal. Notably, this mode is not carried out in a way of emphasising corporeal difference by lack, but by attributing positive markers to the body. It reaches beyond a speaking which only represents women's thoughts and emotions physically - a mode which might render the impression that they are incapable of expressing their conceptions and sentiments linguistically. It is an empowerment that reflects their skill to break up the bonds between language and body. This study is wide-ranging in its choice of authors and themes.

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The Author: Bettina Weiss gained a Ph.D. in African literature from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is editing a book on contemporary literature of Southern Africa dealing with topics such as socio-sexual experiences of black South African men, HIV/AIDS, prostitution, the re-negotiation and restoration of identities, and the past as mediator for the present. The author is working as a freelance journalist.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 3631533020
• ISBN 13: 9783631533024
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270