Heziwell Mhunduru

Fracturing Traditional Boundaries: an African Feminist Approach Heziwell Mhunduru

Varieties of women's resistance in selected Southern Africa women's narratives: An African Feminist critique of "The Purple Violet of Oshaantu" by Neshani Andreas, "Nervous Conditions" by Tsitsi Dangarembga and "For Want of a Totem" by Vivienne Ndlovu. Southern Africa's patriarchal system is hereby explored and exposed in an intriguing and illuminating manner that clearly demonstrates tenets of African Feminism as a literary theory. The book explores aspects such as barrenness, disinheritence and adoption, a practice hitherto unheard of within the African cosmology. A must for avid enthusiasts of the transformation within the African mindset concerning the status of women vis-a-vis the entrenched position of men in the patriarchal system.