Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood

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dc.contributor.advisorCoetzee, Carlien_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMawoyo, Monicaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-04T08:40:57Z
dc.date.available2016-07-04T08:40:57Z
dc.date.issued1999en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography : pages 173-182.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis presents a challenge to the approach that has been used to read representations of motherhood by male writers. The way of reading that has been used has led to accusations by female critics that the representations are jaundiced, a feeling that pervades the special issue of African Literature Today that focuses only on women's work. The introduction to the thesis outlines arguments that have been presented about the need to write from a point of view of experience, an approach that is meant to exclude male writers from writing about motherhood. The approach is also an attempt to prescribe to male writers how they should write about issues concerning women. It will be argued that the authority of experience argument as well as the accusation that male writers are insensitive in representations of women ends up limiting the way people read. The reading will be restricted to a realist reading that does not encourage an extrapolation of the deeper political meaning that may emerge out of male representations of motherhood. The thesis will stress that my reading of male writers' representations has drawn out diverse and complex meanings. To show the diverse ways in which males have used motherhood to produce some political undercurrent, five texts, ranging from precolonial to postcolonial Africa will be used. The analyses attempt to show using these texts by different male writers, that individual texts always exceed the limitations that can be caused by unimaginative reading.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMawoyo, M. (1999). <i>Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20185en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMawoyo, Monica. <i>"Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20185en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMawoyo, M. 1999. Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Mawoyo, Monica AB - This thesis presents a challenge to the approach that has been used to read representations of motherhood by male writers. The way of reading that has been used has led to accusations by female critics that the representations are jaundiced, a feeling that pervades the special issue of African Literature Today that focuses only on women's work. The introduction to the thesis outlines arguments that have been presented about the need to write from a point of view of experience, an approach that is meant to exclude male writers from writing about motherhood. The approach is also an attempt to prescribe to male writers how they should write about issues concerning women. It will be argued that the authority of experience argument as well as the accusation that male writers are insensitive in representations of women ends up limiting the way people read. The reading will be restricted to a realist reading that does not encourage an extrapolation of the deeper political meaning that may emerge out of male representations of motherhood. The thesis will stress that my reading of male writers' representations has drawn out diverse and complex meanings. To show the diverse ways in which males have used motherhood to produce some political undercurrent, five texts, ranging from precolonial to postcolonial Africa will be used. The analyses attempt to show using these texts by different male writers, that individual texts always exceed the limitations that can be caused by unimaginative reading. DA - 1999 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1999 T1 - Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood TI - Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20185 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/20185
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMawoyo M. Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1999 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20185en_ZA
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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.titleThings come together : rereading male representations of motherhooden_ZA
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