Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition

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dc.contributor.advisorCooper, Brendaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSamuelson, M Aen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-12T14:39:49Z
dc.date.available2016-04-12T14:39:49Z
dc.date.issued2005en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe thesis explores the making of nationhood, and its contestation, in narrative representations of women during the South African transition. This temporal span extends across the first decade of democracy and the first two terms of governance following the historic 1994 elections. The transition is a fertile temporal zone in which new myths and symbols are generated. My interest lies in the new national symbols and myths that emerge from this historical moment and the ways in which they have been figured through images and appropriations of women and their bodies. Women's bodies, I argue, are the contested sites upon which nationalism erects its ideological edifices. I engage with the mutually informing productions and performances of gender and nation, and the re-membering of a previously divided and divisive South Africa as a unified 'rainbow' nation. I proceed by tracing narrative acts of memory and repression, with a specific focus on the re-memberings and dismemberings of women's bodies as they are reconstituted as ideal vessels for a national allegory. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-238).en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSamuelson, M. A. (2005). <i>Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18832en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSamuelson, M A. <i>"Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18832en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSamuelson, M. 2005. Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Samuelson, M A AB - The thesis explores the making of nationhood, and its contestation, in narrative representations of women during the South African transition. This temporal span extends across the first decade of democracy and the first two terms of governance following the historic 1994 elections. The transition is a fertile temporal zone in which new myths and symbols are generated. My interest lies in the new national symbols and myths that emerge from this historical moment and the ways in which they have been figured through images and appropriations of women and their bodies. Women's bodies, I argue, are the contested sites upon which nationalism erects its ideological edifices. I engage with the mutually informing productions and performances of gender and nation, and the re-membering of a previously divided and divisive South Africa as a unified 'rainbow' nation. I proceed by tracing narrative acts of memory and repression, with a specific focus on the re-memberings and dismemberings of women's bodies as they are reconstituted as ideal vessels for a national allegory. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-238). DA - 2005 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2005 T1 - Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition TI - Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18832 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/18832
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSamuelson MA. Remembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transition. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2005 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18832en_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.otherWomen Studies - Literature - South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleRemembering the nation, disremembering women? : stories of the South African transitionen_ZA
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