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...

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Publicado en:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 833 - 857
Autor principal: Samuelson, Meg
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Summer 2007
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