And Wrote My Story Anyway – Black South African women′s novels as feminism

And Wrote My Story AnywayBlack South African Women's Novels As Feminism\nAuthor(s): Barbara Boswell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Wits University Press, South Africa\nImprint: Wits University Press\nISBN-13: 9781776146222, 978-1776146222\nSynopsis\nCritically examines influential novels in English by eminent black female writers\n Studying these writers' key engagements with nationalism, race and gender during apartheid and the transition to democracy, Barbara Boswell traces the ways in which black women's fiction criticality interrogates narrow ideas of nationalism. She examines who is included and excluded, while producing alternative visions for a more just South African society.\n This is an erudite analysis of ten well-known South African writers, spanning the apartheid and post-apartheid era: Miriam Tlali, Lauretta Ngcobo, Farida Karodia, Agnes Sam, Sindiwe Magona, Zo Wicomb, Rayda Jacobs, Yvette Christians, Kagiso Lesego Molope, and Zukiswa Wanner. Boswell argues that black wo.