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Spilling everything that threatens: a collection of poems that explores the role of the black matriarch in the nuclear family in South Africa
… Writing, I intend to explore the role of the black matriarch in the nuclear family in contemporary South Africa. Matriarchy, defined by Karen McGee “as the social system in which the mother is the head of the family or a family, community or society governed by women,” has existed for …
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Transgressive matriarchs: an exploration of female agency and resistance in South African telenovelas
This study explores the concept of transgressive Black womanhood in two South African telenovelas, examining whether acts of transgression disrupt existing depictions of the matriarchal figure onscreen. Drawing on the works of Sisonke Msimang, Pumla Gqola and Sabine Binder, specifically their …