A Renegade Called Simphiwe

by Pumla Dineo Gqola

Overview

A feminist exploration of the public lives of performer Simphiwe Dana - a rebel with several causes, in eight essays, award winning author, Prof Gqola brilliantly shows why Dana is arguably one of the most significant cultural figures working in contemporary South Africa today. Fluctuating public responses to Ms Dana show us something about South African sensitivities to Blackness, femininity, language and the imagination. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781920601102
Publisher:	Melinda Ferguson Books
Publication date:	03/18/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	347 KB

About the Author

Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola is the author of What is Slavery to Me? (WITS Press, 2010) A Renegade called Simphiwe (MFBooks 2013), Alan Paton Award Winner 2016, Rape A South African Nightmare (MF Books 2015) and Alan Paton Award Long-listed Reflecting Rogue (MF Books, 2018)? Her highly anticipated new book Female Fear Factory is out in August,2020.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xiii

Preface xvii

Chapter 1 No paradox: A renegade's community 1

Chapter 2 Rapport 20

Chapter 3 Desiring Simphiwe 1: An artist's shadows 36

Chapter 4 Desiring Simphiwe 2: The soft feminist 50

Chapter 5 Love, language and anguish 81

Chapter 6 Uncontained: Simphiwe's Africa 99

Chapter 7 Freeing the imagination 131

Chapter 8 Beautiful complexities - Departures 145

Bibliography 151

Author biography 158