Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
Negotiating femininity, ethnicity and history : representations of Ruth First in South African struggle narratives
An exploration of South African historiography through the prism of representations of activist writer Ruth First (1925-1982) forms the focus of this thesis. Ignored in South African canonical histories during the apartheid era, Ruth First is frequently portrayed as an icon of the struggle in curren...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Department of English Language and Literature
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Similar Items: Negotiating femininity, ethnicity and history : representations of Ruth First in South African struggle narratives
- Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity
- The triumph of the (m)other : the feminine dichotomy in "Sleeping Beauty"
- Narrating space : historiographical representations of body and landscape in Waterland by Graham Swift and Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- Towards a ‘‘living connection with the past’’ : Ludwig Wittgenstein and the representation of history in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz
- The University of the Witwatersrand History Workshop and radical South African historical scholarship in the 1970's and 1980's
- Things come together : rereading male representations of motherhood