Apartheid colonialism, gendered crime, and the domestic gothic in Mary Watson''s The Cutting Room

dc.contributor.authorBurger, Bibi
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-21T13:01:25Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractMary 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.departmentAfrikaansen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2021-10-01
dc.description.librarianhj2021en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe American Council of Learned Societies’ African Humanities Programen_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcwr20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBibi 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.issn1013-929X (print)
dc.identifier.issn2159-9130 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/1013929X.2020.1743024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/80005
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_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.subjectFeminist gothicen_ZA
dc.subjectPostcolonial literatureen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth African novelen_ZA
dc.subjectMary Watson (1975-)en_ZA
dc.subject.otherHumanities articles SDG-05
dc.subject.otherSDG-05: Gender equality
dc.titleApartheid colonialism, gendered crime, and the domestic gothic in Mary Watson''s The Cutting Roomen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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