Closure and survival in Sindiwe Magona's Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night (1991)

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Autor(a) principal: Callahan, David
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/AfricanaStudia/article/view/7110
Resumo: Sindiwe Magona's Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night (1991} deals with the unspectacu!ar, the daily, the details of family and working life, in her case the details of the lives of Xhosa women not directly involved in the politica! struggle but rather in the more pressing struggle for material survival in contemporary South Africa. ln carrying out this project Magona tends to utilise the strategies of literary realism, the speaking voice that does not interrogate its ontological or hermeneutic status, which has always been important for a literature of witness. The article considers the relation between the realist literary strategy of closure and thediscourse of survíval in Magona's stories.
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title Closure and survival in Sindiwe Magona's Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night (1991)
spellingShingle Closure and survival in Sindiwe Magona's Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night (1991)
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title_short Closure and survival in Sindiwe Magona's Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night (1991)
title_full Closure and survival in Sindiwe Magona's Living, Loving And Lying Awake At Night (1991)
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