{"id":10981,"date":"2010-12-22T21:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10981"},"modified":"2010-12-22T21:49:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:49:54","slug":"identity-discrimination-and-violence-in-bessie-heads-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10981","title":{"rendered":"Identity, Discrimination and Violence in Bessie Head&#8217;s Trilogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uir.unisa.ac.za\/bitstream\/10500\/1236\/1\/dissertation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Identity, Discrimination and Violence in Bessie Head&#8217;s Trilogy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of South Africa<br \/>\nNovember 2002<br \/>\n71 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corwin Luthuli Mhlahlo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject of English<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This dissertation seeks to explore the perceived intricate relationship that exists between constructed identity, discrimination and violence as portrayed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bessiehead.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bessie Head\u2019s<\/a> trilogy from varying perspectives, including aspects of postcoloniality, materialist feminism and liminality.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with a background to some of the origins of racial hybridity in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Africa<\/a>, it looks at how racial identity has subsequently influenced the course of Southern African history and thereafter explores historical and biographical information deemed relevant to an understanding of the dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>Critical explorations of each text in the trilogy follow, in which the apparent affinities that exists between identity, discrimination and violence are analysed and displayed.\u00a0 In conclusion the trilogy is discussed from a largely sociological perspective of hope in a utopian society.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/uir.unisa.ac.za\/bitstream\/10500\/1236\/1\/dissertation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity, Discrimination and Violence in Bessie Head&#8217;s Trilogy University of South Africa November 2002 71 pages Corwin Luthuli Mhlahlo Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject of English This dissertation seeks to explore the perceived intricate relationship that exists between constructed identity, discrimination and violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,838,1196,8,25],"tags":[1012,4785,4784,4786,4787],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-bessie-head","tag-corwin-l-mhlahlo","tag-corwin-luthuli-mhlahlo","tag-corwin-mhlahlo","tag-university-of-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}