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(Dis)Remembering the slave mother: shame, trauma, and identity in the novels of Michelle Cliff and Zoë Wicomb

The 'new' nationalisms that have developed in postcolonial Jamaica and South Africa invite the reclamation of the slave mother, while simultaneously 'cleansing' her body of slavery's atrocities for the purpose of national healing. Michelle Cliff's Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven, and Zoë Wicomb's D...

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Main Author: Dressler, Mercedes Angelina
Other Authors: Mkhize, Khwezi
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of English Language and Literature 2017
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