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Mambokadzi
Mambokadzi is built around the stories of my matrilineal histories and centred on the intimate space in which my grandmother, mother and I exist. It also seeks to recognize the collective space of Black womxn through an exploration of the royal ancestral spirit Nehanda who instigated the first Chimu...
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| author | Chiwa, Akudzwe Elsie |
| author2 | Makhubu, Nomusa |
| author_browse | Chiwa, Akudzwe Elsie Makhubu, Nomusa |
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| description | Mambokadzi is built around the stories of my matrilineal histories and centred on the intimate space in which my grandmother, mother and I exist. It also seeks to recognize the collective space of Black womxn through an exploration of the royal ancestral spirit Nehanda who instigated the first Chimurenga (resistance-struggle) of 1896-97. This space is one tainted by colonial and patriarchal trauma, yet concurrently subverts colonial ideas of gender, particularly the feminine. Mambokadzi is intended to embody a decolonial idea of gender and femininity. In this collective space, womxn have consciously and unconsciously cultivated power within the confines of patriarchy, masculinity and coloniality. Through sculpture, I interrogate learned perceptions about gender and reflect on experiences of womxn in my family as a way to discuss womxnhood in Southern Africa and the diaspora broadly |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/35702 Mambokadzi Chiwa, Akudzwe Elsie Makhubu, Nomusa Alexander, Jane Fine Art Mambokadzi is built around the stories of my matrilineal histories and centred on the intimate space in which my grandmother, mother and I exist. It also seeks to recognize the collective space of Black womxn through an exploration of the royal ancestral spirit Nehanda who instigated the first Chimurenga (resistance-struggle) of 1896-97. This space is one tainted by colonial and patriarchal trauma, yet concurrently subverts colonial ideas of gender, particularly the feminine. Mambokadzi is intended to embody a decolonial idea of gender and femininity. In this collective space, womxn have consciously and unconsciously cultivated power within the confines of patriarchy, masculinity and coloniality. Through sculpture, I interrogate learned perceptions about gender and reflect on experiences of womxn in my family as a way to discuss womxnhood in Southern Africa and the diaspora broadly 2022-02-18T04:36:25Z 2022-02-18T04:36:25Z 2021 2022-02-09T13:10:31Z Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35702 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities |
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| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Mambokadzi |
| title_full | Mambokadzi |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Mambokadzi |
| title_short | Mambokadzi |
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| topic | Fine Art |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35702 |
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