Masculinity, Matrimony and Generation: Reconfiguring Patriarchy in Drum 1951–1983

Clowes, Lindsay

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“…In a similar vein, ideas about masculinity were also constructed problematically due to the prioritized demands of a racial discourse. Lindsay Clowes observes that, while pitching an urban modern black identity as opposed to a rural and traditional one, Drum magazine nevertheless paradoxically “found itself simultaneously reinforcing Western rather than African versions of manhood” (2008: 192). According to both critics, there was an underlying tension between categories of gender and race in this period that largely problematized the reinvention of the black subject in terms of their gender roles.…”

Section: Temporality Of Sophiatown and The Paradox Of Masculinitymentioning

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Writing against innocence: Entangled temporality, black subjectivity, and Drum writers revisited

2018

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This article examines the representation of time in narratives of childhood experience in Es’kia Mphahlele’s Down Second Avenue (1959) and Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History (1963). These two autobiographies are among the most widely-known works by the group of South African writers who have been loosely associated with Drum magazine in the 1950s. Originating from the early years of the anti-apartheid struggle and resonating widely with the heightened anticolonial resistance movements across the continent, writings by the so-called Drum writers, many of whom later went into exile, have often been viewed and criticized as “protest literature”, as literary works whose aesthetic merits are somehow compromised by the overt political purposes they appear to serve. This article seeks to revise such a reading by revisiting the politics of the stylistic innovations in these autobiographical narratives. Themes and motifs directly derived from the rhetoric of political protest, as I argue, in fact problematize a developmental logic governing the biographical transition from childhood to adulthood and contribute to a radical critique of linear temporality and teleological historiography. While writing from polemical positions and from inside the historical juncture of political resistance, these writers’ narrative reflections on and re-orderings of the relationship between the past and the present also partake of the process of refashioning modern black subjectivity, a significant move of literary intervention that still has profound resonance in our postcolonial, post-apartheid, and post-revolutionary present.

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Section: Temporality Of Sophiatown and The Paradox Of Masculinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing against innocence: Entangled temporality, black subjectivity, and Drum writers revisited

2018

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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The Politics of African Household Budget Studies in South Africa

Ross¹

2016

Hist. Afr.

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Abstract:This paper traces the development of studies of African household budgets in South Africa, from the 1920s up to the 1970s, and indeed in summary form till the present. It argues that, although the genre seems to be politically neutral, and only concerned to establish “the facts,” in reality the outcome of the various researches, and certainly their presentation was dependent on the political and institutional position of the researcher, whether “liberal,” linked to commercial institutions, or as part of the apartheid state.

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Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive

Bridger,

Hazan

2022

African Studies

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Masculinity, Matrimony and Generation: Reconfiguring Patriarchy in Drum 1951–1983

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Writing against innocence: Entangled temporality, black subjectivity, and Drum writers revisited

Writing against innocence: Entangled temporality, black subjectivity, and Drum writers revisited

The Politics of African Household Budget Studies in South Africa

Surfeit and Silence: Sexual Violence in the Apartheid Archive

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