Abstract
dc:description.abstractMambokadzi 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
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor
- Michaelis School of Fine Art
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2021
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Chiwa, Akudzwe Elsie
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Makhubu, Nomusa
- Alexander, Jane
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/35702
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/35702