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| Title: | Ufanele Uqavile: Blackwomen, Feminisms and Postcoloniality in Africa |
| Author: | Gqola, Pumla Dineo |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity |
| Issue: | 50 |
| Pages: | 11-22 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | black women feminism Equality and Liberation Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10130950.2001.9675990 |
| Abstract: | The author pays attention to the differences within the variety of ways in which Blackwomen participate in and influence feminist spaces and discourses. She addresses the question of how difference is configured and implicated in sites which centre on Blackwoman's experiences in Africa. Her article is, therefore, a discussion on Blackwomen theorizing feminism and postcoloniality. The article is informed by the assumption that these Blackwomen redefine the terrain altogether. The author's departure point is through paradigms, devised by two scholars who write, theorize and analyse Blackwomen's spaces in Africa and the diaspora, to describe the interconnections between theory and 'the everyday' in Blackwomen-centric work. The first, Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (1994), characterizes African women as those who metaphorically carry six mountains on their backs. The second, Carole Boyce Davies (1995), characterizes the writings of Blackwomen as moving beyond boundaries, opening up even these confines for examination. The present author investigates how it is that Blackwomen-centric spaces theorize an ability to carry mountains on their backs across boundaries. Her analysis is limited to postcolonial production and activity. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
