The Disfigured Body of the Female Guerrilla: (De)Militarization, Sexual Violence, and Redomestication in Zoë Wicomb's “David's Story”.
Part of a special issue on raced-gendered logics and effects in conflict zones. In a review essay, the writer discusses Zoë Wicomb's novel, David's Story, toinvestigates the implications for feminism of reading and writing about women in the southern African war zone and its aftermath. Wicomb's bo...
| Published in: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 833 - 857 |
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University of Chicago Press
Summer 2007
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| Summary: | Part of a special issue on raced-gendered logics and effects in conflict zones. In a review essay, the writer discusses Zoë Wicomb's novel, David's Story, toinvestigates the implications for feminism of reading and writing about women in the southern African war zone and its aftermath. Wicomb's books deals with the figure of a female militant and the many violations she is subject to in an era of demilitarization and re-domestication following South Africa's political settlement in the early 1990s. |
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