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Title: | Subverting Identity after 1994: The South African Indian Woman as Playwright |
Author: | Govender, Krijay |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity |
Issue: | 49 |
Pages: | 33-43 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | immigrants Indians women migrants theatre drama literature Education and Training |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10130950.2001.9675970 |
Abstract: | Black women are marginalized by race, class and sex. South African Indian women also encounter marginalization perpetuated by a constructed sense of not belonging to South Africa. This is primarily a result of the apartheid legacy. The cultural and political identity of the South African Indian woman is also situated within the structure of patriarchy and carries gendered ideological constructions. South African Indian theatre has been defined as a public endeavour and with the exception of a few Indian women it has been dominated by the Indian male voice. The author investigates representations of South African Indian women in theatre. She uses South African women playwrights like Nadine Naidoo and Devi Sarinjeive and their plays ('Nadia' and 'Acts of God', respectively) to show how they respond in their own work to the often demeaning ways in which South African Indian men playwrights have represented women in their plays. What playwriting and theatre offer South African Indian women is the opportunity to reclaim the right to name their own experience and, in doing so, construct their own identities. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |