Open AccessArticulation of Women’s Empowerment Through Poetry: Critical Perspective
Author(s) -
Sindile Dlodlo
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
dande
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2413-2551
DOI - 10.15641/dande.v2i2.43
Subject(s) - articulation (sociology) , subaltern , emancipation , empowerment , poetry , perspective (graphical) , argument (complex analysis) , gender studies , sociology , feminism , aesthetics , literature , political science , art , law , visual arts , politics , biochemistry , chemistry
This is a literary study which analyses poetic works produced by Zimbabwe Women Writers. It seeks to establish the position of women as far as articulation of their emancipation and empowerment is concerned. This is done in the light of the fact that Zimbabwe Women Writers is an organisation which represents both the achievements of women and an arena for women to speak out. The Ndebele anthology Inkondlo (1998) is analysed and in the course of the analysis, Spivak’s (1988) argument of the woman being a subaltern who cannot speak is interrogated. It is the author’s submission that contributions in the anthology Inkondlo actually deconstruct the feminist way of thinking which guides the publisher.