Patricia Hayes

Wendy Woodward

Gary Minkley

Most of the 13 essays presented here were originally presented at the January 1997 "Gender and Colonialism" conference held at the U. of Western Cape (South Africa). Presented by Woodward (English and cultural studies, U. of the Western Cape), Hayes (history, U. of the Western Cape), and Minkley (history, U. of the Western Cape), the contributions address both colonial and postcolonial issues of identity in Southern Africa from a variety of perspectives within contemporary critical and feminist theories. Topics include slave women's rhetoric and the Eastern Cape courts, ideologies of domesticity and the British construction of the "primitive," Dutch- Afrikaans women's entry into the public sphere in the Cape Colony, male nursing in the mines of 20th-century South Africa, and "gender- blending" and "code-switching" in the South African novel. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa

Deep Histories

Susan McHugh

This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures. From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art, film, and literature, the volume’s unique emphasis on Southern Africa and North America – historical loci of the greatest ranges of species and linguistic diversity – help to situate how indigenous knowledges of human-animal relations are being adapted to modern conditions of life shared across species lines.

Wendy Woodward

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