The essay is meant to stimulate a general reflection on the burning issues and problems which affect contemporary South African society but whose shadows, in different forms and degrees, loom over the world at large. The focus of the attention is the South African writer Sindiwe Magona’s literary production with a particular emphasis on her latest novel, Beauty’s Gift, published in 2008. The novel, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 2009, represents the starting ground to interpellate South African society in its present innermost contradictions and hidden tensions in order to re-think the widespread culture of violence which wounds the community.
Re-membering Women’s Violated Bodies: Sindiwe Magona’s Beauty’s Gift
DOLCE, Maria Renata
2010-01-01
Abstract
The essay is meant to stimulate a general reflection on the burning issues and problems which affect contemporary South African society but whose shadows, in different forms and degrees, loom over the world at large. The focus of the attention is the South African writer Sindiwe Magona’s literary production with a particular emphasis on her latest novel, Beauty’s Gift, published in 2008. The novel, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in 2009, represents the starting ground to interpellate South African society in its present innermost contradictions and hidden tensions in order to re-think the widespread culture of violence which wounds the community.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
