Book Review: Subaltern Women Subvert Dominant Discourse in Njabulo Ndebele's Novel Cry Of Winnie Mandela

Bridget Edman

doi:10.14426/tbu.v4i2.1628

Book Review

Subaltern Women Subvert Dominant Discourse in Njabulo Ndebele's Novel Cry Of Winnie Mandela

Authors

Bridget Edman

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14426/tbu.v4i2.1628

Keywords:

Ndebele, African women, Winnie Mandela, Post-apartheid, Cultural discourse

Abstract

Background: In postcolonial Africa. women especially rural women. remain largely disempo11ered subalterns. This essay intends 10 foreground how African women in Njabulo Ndebele's Cry of Winnie Mandela subvert dominant discourse of foreign oppressors and African males. It disassembles the novel's evocative narrative of 1,·omen·s patient 11aiting and reassembles palimpsest texts of social. political. cultural discursive discourses.