- Title
- Red cotton
- Creator
- Gantsho, Vangile
- ThesisAdvisor
- Wessels, Paul
- Subject
- Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa
- Subject
- South African poetry (English) 21st century
- Subject
- South African poetry (English) Black authors
- Subject
- Lesbians, Black Poetry
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7213
- Identifier
- vital:21229
- Description
- My collection of poetry is a deeply personal exploration of what it means to be black, queer, and woman in modern-day South Africa. I interrogate being non-conformist in both a traditional-cultural upbringing and a more liberal yet equally-oppressive urban socialisation. I question what we are taught about the body and the feminine sexual space, while also addressing the mother-daughter relationship as the first and most constant reference of womanhood. The collection moves fluidly between the erotic, the uncomfortable and grotesque, what is painful, and what is beautiful and longed-for. Working promiscuously across forms, I employ prose poetry, interspersed with lyrical interludes, in an attempt at a narrative effect similar to what Claudia Rankine achieves in Don't Let Me Be Lonely. I also draw from writers such as Calixthe Beyala (Your Name Shall Be Tanga), and Janice Lee (Damnation), as well as sex guides, women's blogs, and feminist poetry.
- Format
- 56 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for the Study of English in Africa
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Gantsho, Vangile
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