{"id":1700,"date":"2021-07-08T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T19:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:05:03","slug":"rethinking-female-identity-and-cultural-identifiers-in-kopano-matlwas-coconut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"RETHINKING FEMALE IDENTITY AND CULTURAL IDENTIFIERS IN KOPANO MATLWA\u2019S COCONUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Abstract<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Since the legal demise of apartheid in South Africa, there has been a sustained debate on African identity. The South African socio-political landscape has undergone a great deal of change in the last three decades and great strides have been made with regard to social, cultural and political dynamics at play therein. In spite of dramatic constitutional changes, South Africans remain stuck in the apartheid ways of thinking and living in a society fragmented by racial discourse. A particular focus is on black female identity formation and class position in the post-apartheid nation. This article is about a critical examination of young black women\u2019s disassimilation and cultural awareness through a postmodernist approach that deconstructs essentialist and oppositional notions of African culture and identity.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Keywords : Africanness, culture, demarginalisation, disassimilation, female<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">identity, race.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Depuis la fin l\u00e9gale de l\u2019apartheid en Afrique du Sud, l\u2019identit\u00e9 africaine est constamment sujette \u00e0 d\u00e9bat. Le paysage socio-politique sud africain <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">a fait l\u2019objet d\u2019un grand changement ces trois derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies et des avanc\u00e9es notoires ont \u00e9t\u00e9 faites, et ce, au regard des dynamiques <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">sociales, culturelles et politiques en jeu dans le pays. En d\u00e9pit des changements constitutionnels spectaculaires, les Sud-africains demeurent <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">enlis\u00e9s dans les pens\u00e9es habituelles de l\u2019apartheid et vivent ainsi dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 divis\u00e9e par le discours racial. Une attention particuli\u00e8re est accord\u00e9e <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00e0 la formation de l\u2019identit\u00e9 et de la classe sociale de la femme noire dans la nation post-apartheid. Le pr\u00e9sent article vise \u00e0 faire une analyse critique de <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">d\u00e9sassimilation et de prise de conscience des jeunes femmes noires \u00e0 travers une approche postmoderniste qui d\u00e9construit des notions essentialistes et oppositionnelles de la culture et de l\u2019identit\u00e9 africaines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Mots-cl\u00e9s : africanit\u00e9, culture, d\u00e9marginalisation, d\u00e9sassimilation, identit\u00e9 f\u00e9minie, race.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Since the legal demise of apartheid in South Africa, there has been a sustained debate on African identity. The South African socio-political landscape has undergone a great deal of change in the last three decades and great strides have been made with regard to social, cultural and political dynamics at play therein. 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