Deep hiStories : : Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa /

Deep hiStories : : Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa / / edited by Wendy Woodward, Patricia Hayes, Gary Minkley.

Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume's theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional m...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures ; 57
TeilnehmendeR:
Hayes, Patricia,
Minkley, Gary,
Woodward, Wendy,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures ; 57.
Physical Description:1 online resource (402 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of figures
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Deep HiStories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa
  • WENDY WOODWARD, PATRICIA HAYES AND GARY MINKLEY
  • Genealogies of voice
  • State Racism and the Education of Desires:
  • A Colonial Reading of Foucault
  • ANN LAURA STOLER
  • Domesticity and Dispossession: The Ideologies of Domesticity and 'Home' and the British Construction of the Primitive from the Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries
  • ELIZABETH ELBOURNE
  • Contradictory Tongues: Torture and Testimony of Two Slave Women in the Eastern Cape Courts in 1934
  • WENDY WOODWARD
  • Women's Talk and the Colonial State: The Case of Sir John Wylde, 1931-1933
  • KIRSTEN MACKENZIE
  • Science and the Spectacle: /Khanako's South Africa, 1936-1937
  • CIRAJ RASSOOL AND PATRICIA HAYES
  • Steeped histories
  • 'Moedermeesteres': Dutch-Afrikaans Women's Entry into the Public Sphere in the Cape Colony 1860-1896
  • MARIJKE Du TOIT
  • 'We respected them for their colour': Male Nursing on the Mines in Twentieth-Century South Africa
  • SHULA MARKS
  • Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother: Transgression and Social Control in Colonial Namibia
  • MEREDITH MCKITTRICK WITH FANUEL SHINGENGE
  • Gender and Fertility in a Postcolonial Moment: The Prohibition of Depo-Provera in Zimbabwe 1981
  • AMY KALER
  • Sounding lines
  • Self-Representation and the Reconstruction of Southern African Pasts: Bessie Head's A Bewitched Crossroad
  • DESIRÉE LEWIS
  • Gender-Blending and Code-Switching in the South African Novel: A Postcolonial Model
  • JOHAN JACOBS
  • Targeted for Change: Cameroonian Women and Missionary Designs in Some Fiction of Mongo Beti
  • ELIAS BONGMBA
  • Colonizing the Queer: Some Problems in Curating South Africa's First National Gay and Lesbian Art Exhibition
  • JOAN BELLIS
  • Notes on contributors.

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