“Born in Africa but...”

Vogt, Isabelle (2009): “Born in Africa but...”: Women’s poetry of post-Apartheid South Africa in English. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty for Languages and Literatures

Abstract

The study is dedicated to the poetry of South African post-Apartheid women's poetry. Working with the primary texts, the poems themselves, the focus is on different aspects of identity which are major topics in South African poetry in general. The second and main part of the study looks into the most obviously recurring themes of contemporary South African women’s poetry: • ethnic identity, the identity within a certain group of society and the depiction of the relations between the ethnic groups, is treated in Chapter VI, • gender identity, a discussion of gender problems and womanhood and motherhood, in Chapter VII and • professional identity, being an artist, a woman poet, in Chapter VIII.

• Item Type: Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich)
• Keywords: South Africa, poetry, women, post-Apartheid, performance
• Subjects: 800 Literature > 890 Literatures of other languages; 800 Literature
• Faculties: Faculty for Languages and Literatures
• Language: English
• Date of oral examination: 9. February 2009
• 1. Referee: Nowak, Helge
• Signature of the printed copy: 0001/UMC 17913