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Article: Forms of resistance: South African women's writing during apartheid.
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- Hecate
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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Every household in the fine suburb had several black servants - trusted cooks . . . faithful gardeners . . . a shifting population of pretty young housemaids whose long red nails and pertness not only asserted the indignity of being undiscovered or out-of-work fashion models but kept hoisted a cocky guerrilla pride against servitude to whites: there are many forms of resistance not recognised in orthodox revolutionary strategy.(1)
[Resistance] is not always identifiable through organized movements; resistance inheres in the very gaps, fissures, and silences of hegemonic narratives. Resistance is encoded in the very practices of remembering and writing. Agency is thus ...