![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jean Paul Sartre (1948) in Orphée Noir said, “What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?” Angry black women, sassy black women, too loud, too vocal abound as stereotypes in culture – women who do not know their place. Both in form and in content, Sissie heralds a break with convention, demonstrating that African subjects have always been speaking and not always in the politeness that some would prefer. ![]() Her observations of white colonial culture, of relations between black and white subjects and historical collisions and disjunctures, even relationships between African men and women come under her incisive interrogation and tongue. In it Sissie arrives on a fellowship in Germany. In 1977, Ghanaian novelist Ama Ata Aidoo published her book Our Sister Killjoy: Or Reflections from a Black-Eyed Squint. Venue: Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa Hosted by Rhodes University Department of Literary Studies in English and the Wits University Department of Fine Arts African Feminisms (Afems) 2023 Call for Presentations ![]()
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