Citizenship and social status in Miriam Tlali's Muriel at Metropolitan.
An intersectional feminist stance was reflected in South African literary texts as early as the 1970s. Miriam Tlali's pioneering work Muriel at Metropolitan (1975), for example, explores how black women are most palpably confronted with intersecting oppressions and inequalities because of mutually r...
| Publicado en: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 35 - 46 |
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