Apartheid colonialism, gendered crime, and the domestic gothic in Mary Watson''s The Cutting Room
| dc.contributor.author | Burger, Bibi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-21T13:01:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Mary Watson’s gothic novel, The Cutting Room (2013), deals with a woman who does not feel at home in her house. Her unease can be attributed to her conflicted feelings about being a wife in South Africa’s colonial and apartheid history, as well as to a fear of crime. Using feminist theories of women’s relationship to the domestic sphere, Freud’s writing on the unheimlich as well as Homi K Bhaba’s notion of the “postcolonial unhomely”, I argue that the genre of the gothic provides appropriate metaphors and an aptly uncanny atmosphere for the exploration of a South African woman’s complex relationship with the home. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Afrikaans | en_ZA |
| dc.description.embargo | 2021-10-01 | |
| dc.description.librarian | hj2021 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The American Council of Learned Societies’ African Humanities Program | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcwr20 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bibi Burger (2020) Apartheid Colonialism, Gendered Crime, and the Domestic Gothic in Mary Watson’s The Cutting Room, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 32:1, 2-9, DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1743024. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1013-929X (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2159-9130 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1743024 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80005 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Routledge | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2020 The Editorial Board, Current Writing. This is an electronic version of an article published in Current Writing, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 2-9, 2020. doi : 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1743024. Current Writing is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/rcwr20. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Feminist gothic | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Postcolonial literature | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | South African novel | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Mary Watson (1975-) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.other | Humanities articles SDG-05 | |
| dc.subject.other | SDG-05: Gender equality | |
| dc.title | Apartheid colonialism, gendered crime, and the domestic gothic in Mary Watson''s The Cutting Room | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Postprint Article | en_ZA |