Like family : domestic workers in South African history and literature
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Like family : domestic workers in South African history and literature
Wits University Press, 2019
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Soos familie : stedelike huiswerkers in Suid-Afrikaanse tekste
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"Like family is an updated and reworked translation of Soos familie: stedelike huiswerkers in Suid-Afrikaanse tekste, 2015"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-339) and index
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内容説明
More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in in postapartheid society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. 'Like family' they may be, but they and their employers know they can never be real family.Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. This established social hierarchies and patterns of behaviour and interaction that persist to the present day, and are still evident in the predicament of the black female domestic worker.To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Authors include Andre Brink, JM Coetzee, Imraan Coovadia, Nadine Gordimer, Elsa Joubert, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Kopano Matlwa, Es'kia Mphahlele, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner and Zoe Wicomb.. Later texts by black authors offer wry and subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships.Like Family is an updated version of the award-winning Soos familie published in 2015 and the highly-acclaimed 2016 Dutch translation, Bijna familie.
目次
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note to Readers
Introduction Searching the archive
Chapter 1 Domestic workers in South Africa
Chapter 2 Enslaved women at the Cape - Precursors to the culture of domestic work
Chapter 3 Migrant women and domestic work in the city
Chapter 4 Legislation governing the lives of urban women
Chapter 5 Domestic workers in personal accounts
Chapter 6 Testimonies of domestic workers - Interviews, stories and a novel
Chapter 7 Domestic workers and children
Chapter 8 Domestic workers and sexuality
Chapter 9 Domestic workers in times of political unrest and protest
Chapter 10 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by white authors
Chapter 11 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by black authors
Chapter 12 Domestic workers on the threshold
Bibliography
Index
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