Domestic Frontier Romance, or, How the Sentimental Heroine Became White

Tawil, Ezra

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“…The volksmoeder trope was therefore integral to the gendered apparatus of colonial racial differentiation, so that Afrikaner nationalism had a profound interest in imposing a regime of compulsory binary heterosexuality, motherhood and class-inflected domesticity on the Afrikaner woman. Whiteness becomes the product of ‘a particular kind of household’ (Tawil, 1998, p. 101) upheld and signified by a particular kind of woman.…”

Section: The Heterosexual Nuclear Family As the Foundation Of The White Nationmentioning

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Afrikaner nationalism and the light side of the colonial/modern gender system: understanding white patriarchy as colonial race technology

Coetzee¹

2021

Feminist Review

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There is a growing body of feminist scholarship and literature exploring the ways in which Western patriarchal technologies of gender differentiation and sexual violence structure the racial categorisation and dehumanisation that define South Africa’s history of slavery, colonialism and apartheid. In this article, I consider the gendered history of white Afrikaner nationalism in the context of these insights. Using the decolonial feminist lens of María Lugones, I interpret the historical and contemporary patriarchal subjugation of the white Afrikaner woman as a site of the production and maintenance of colonial racial categories and hierarchies. Gaining a better understanding of how gender operated as a colonial mode of organisation in the process of forging the ethno-racialised white identity of the Afrikaner in the early nineteenth century in opposition to the black indigenous majority population helps to explain how the continued patriarchal subjugation of white Afrikaner women by Afrikaner men in postcolonial/postapartheid South Africa works to reassert and maintain colonial racial categories and inequalities that continue to plague the country.

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Section: The Heterosexual Nuclear Family As the Foundation Of The White Nationmentioning

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Afrikaner nationalism and the light side of the colonial/modern gender system: understanding white patriarchy as colonial race technology

Coetzee¹

2021

Feminist Review

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“…Scholars like Anne McClintock, Qwo‐Li Driskill, Maria Lugones, Greg Thomas, Sylvia Tamale, Pumla Dineo Gqola, and Mark Rifkin show in different ways and in different contexts that in the colony, discourses of sexuality are key to projects of racial formation, insofar as sexual otherness (or “sexual monstrosity”) marks racial otherness, and racial otherness implies sexual monstrosity (McClintock ; Driskill ; Lugones ; Thomas ; Tamale ; Lugones ; Gqola ; Rifkin ). Many scholars, including Nakanyike Musisi, Roderick Ferguson, Amy Brandzel, and Mark Rifkin have been showing, in the context of various postcolonial societies, how the sexual otherness (which translates to and produces racial otherness) in the colony is measured against the standard of normalized Western forms of conjugal domesticity, so that whiteness becomes “a product of a particular kind of household” (Tawil , 101; see Musisi ; Ferguson ; Brandzel ; Rifkin ). Conformity to certain kinship rules therefore becomes a mark of civilization, which finds expression in a certain form of conjugality, so that different forms of familial and gender organization betray deviance and monstrosity (associated with blackness and proving necessary inferiority).…”

Section: Western Kinship Norms As Markers Of Race and Apparatuses Of mentioning

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Antigone, Empire, and the Legacy of Oedipus: Thinking African Decolonization through the Rearticulation of Kinship Rules

Coetzee¹

2019

Hypatia

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In her book Antigone's Claim: Kinship between Life and Death, Judith Butler reads the figure of Antigone, who exists as an impossible aberration of kinship, as a challenge to the very terms of livability that are established by the reigning symbolic rules of Western thought (Butler 2000). In this article I extend Butler's argument to reach beyond gender. I argue that African feminist scholarship shows that the kinship norms shaping the reigning symbolic rules of Western thought not only render certain gendered lives unlivable, but through the gendered working thereof also become key to the colonial process of the racial dehumanization of the colonized and the violent expansion of Eurocentric capitalism. I show how Oyèrónké Oyĕwùmí, in her work on the Yorùbá people of Nigeria, provides, in a way analogous to Antigone, a glimpse of an order structured by kinship formations that are remarkably different from, and thereby bring into crisis, the normative versions of kinship that are posited as timeless truths. Through a reimagining or reconstruction of precolonial Yorùbá kinship formations, Oyĕwùmí articulates a different scheme of intelligibility, which enables radically different ways of being human and existing in the world.

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“Cross-Cultural Conversations”: The Captivity Narrative

Logan¹

2007

A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America

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Domestic Frontier Romance, or, How the Sentimental Heroine Became White

Cited by 29 publications

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Afrikaner nationalism and the light side of the colonial/modern gender system: understanding white patriarchy as colonial race technology

Afrikaner nationalism and the light side of the colonial/modern gender system: understanding white patriarchy as colonial race technology

Antigone, Empire, and the Legacy of Oedipus: Thinking African Decolonization through the Rearticulation of Kinship Rules

“Cross-Cultural Conversations”: The Captivity Narrative

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