Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories

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dc.contributor.advisorBrink, André Pen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorFick, Angelo Carloen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-17T12:38:47Z
dc.date.available2016-03-17T12:38:47Z
dc.date.issued1998en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages. 197-211.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the representation of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the four writers are able to offer black women as female gendered subalterns the space to negotiate subjectivity and to assert agency. Given the history of sexism, racism and imperialism in South Africa, the politics of place impact crucially on the practice of writing literature, so that the tensions between the representation of others and self-representation becomes crucial in identity formation. Through the four texts, I propose that there is a spectrum of practices, and that each offers different possibilities for black women's subject formation: from the most limiting liberal discourses, through the interrogation of those discourses, to an autobiographical moment of self-reclamation.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationFick, A. C. (1998). <i>Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17940en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationFick, Angelo Carlo. <i>"Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17940en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationFick, A. 1998. Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Fick, Angelo Carlo AB - This thesis examines the representation of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the four writers are able to offer black women as female gendered subalterns the space to negotiate subjectivity and to assert agency. Given the history of sexism, racism and imperialism in South Africa, the politics of place impact crucially on the practice of writing literature, so that the tensions between the representation of others and self-representation becomes crucial in identity formation. Through the four texts, I propose that there is a spectrum of practices, and that each offers different possibilities for black women's subject formation: from the most limiting liberal discourses, through the interrogation of those discourses, to an autobiographical moment of self-reclamation. DA - 1998 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1998 T1 - Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories TI - Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17940 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/17940
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationFick AC. Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1998 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17940en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.titleLimited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegoriesen_ZA
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