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Women Writing Africa: the southern region.

Publication: Race and Class
Publication Date: 01-JUL-05
Format: Online - approximately 1250 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Women Writing Africa: the southern region Edited by M. J. DAYMOND, DOROTHY DRIVER, SHEILA MEINTJES et al. (New York, Feminist Press/Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 2003), 554 pp., cloth, $75.00.

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Writing, maintain the editors in their introduction to Women Writing Africa, has signified to women 'both empowerment and entrapment'. From an anonymous 'song of the afflicted' from Lesotho in 1842 to more personally identified Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) testimony a century and a half later, Women Writing Africa: the southern region presents an extended and exemplary narrative of women writing to and from southern Africa, arguing for recognition, both indigenous and international, of women in writing from the southern parts of the African continent. That argument is reinforced not only by the increase in women's representation in South Africa's...

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