The Ethics of Dissident Desire in Southern African Writing (review)

Going beyond positing the simultaneity of the binaries of race, gender, and sexuality, what is revealed by the analysis is the mutual constitution of these categories of othering. [...]in black consciousness poetry, the black, male, strong, creative, and virtuous speaking position emerges in opposit...

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Published in:	Research in African Literatures 2013-03, Vol.44 (1), p.206-207
Main Author:	Van Bever Donker, Vincent
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1977 20th century 284349 African literature Biko, Stephen Consciousness Creativity Derrida, Jacques Dissidents Ethics Ethics of dissident desire in Southern African writing Gender History and criticism Literature Males Marechera, Dambudzo $xCriticism and interpretation Otherness Poetry Postcolonialism Pucherová, Dobrota Alz̆beta Pucherová, Pucherová, Dobrota Alz̆beta,, Dobrota Alz̆beta Review articles Sexuality South African literature (English) Southern Africa
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Summary:	Going beyond positing the simultaneity of the binaries of race, gender, and sexuality, what is revealed by the analysis is the mutual constitution of these categories of othering. [...]in black consciousness poetry, the black, male, strong, creative, and virtuous speaking position emerges in opposition to the white oppressor and through the vehicle of the feminine, represented either as "Mother Africa"-passive, violated, and "the medium of male creativity" (32)-or as "treacherous, morally corrupt, and promiscuous" (33). [...]identity is seen as hybrid, complex, and coalescing through, rather than in opposition to, the other.
ISSN:	0034-5210 1527-2044