A feminist exploration of the public lives of performer Simphiwe Dana – a rebel with several causes, in eight essays, award winning author, Prof Gqola brilliantly shows why Dana is arguably one of the most significant cultural figures working in contemporary South Africa today. Fluctuating public responses to Ms Dana show us something about South African sensitivities to Blackness, femininity, language and the imagination.
Winner of the 2016 Alan Paton Award, Rape:A South African Nightmare unpacks South Africa’s various relationships to rape, connections between rape culture and the shock/disbelief syndrome that characterises public responses to rape, the female fear factory, boy rape and violent masculinities, the rape of Black lesbians, baby rape, as well as high profile rape trials like that of Jacob Zuma, Bob Hewitt, Baby Tshepang and Anene Booysen.
Reflecting Rogue – Inside the Mind of a Feminist is a mesmerizing collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and SA culture, written by 2016 Alan Paton Award winner, Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola. In her most personal book to date, written from a classic Gqola anti-racist, feminist perspective, Reflecting Rogue delivers twenty essays of incisive brain food, deliciously accessible to a general critical readership, without sacrificing intellectual rigour. Professor Gqola...
Much has been made about South Africa?s transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. ?Memory? features prominently in the country?s reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full-length texts which study this transition, most have focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). What is slavery to me? is the first full-length study of slave memory in the South African context, and examines the relevance and...
