She’s Not a Bad Girl, Brenda Fassie: Past, Present and Future, A Canon for the Construction of Post Colonial Feminist Consciousness

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dc.contributor.authorQwesha, Qhama
dc.contributor.supervisorMupotsa, Danai S.
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-15T10:28:49Z
dc.date.available2024-08-15T10:28:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-07
dc.departmentDepartment of African Literature
dc.descriptionA research report submitted in fulfilment of the partial requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in African Literature, Faculty of Humanities, School of Literature, Language and Media, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023.
dc.description.abstractIn this research report, I examine the ways that icon Brenda Fassie operates as an important archive for the articulation of quotidian feminist consciousness. In paying close attention to the present re-emergence of Fassie in South African intimate publics that include idioms, modes, praxes, aesthetics, and consumptive forms that she currently figuratively circulates. I approach the question of an archive from two central sensibilities: first, with regards to authoritative narrative accounts related to her memorialization; and second, in the ways that her figure (re)appears in these intimate publics to reconfigure the meanings we attach to African femme/womanhood and sexualities. Looking to multiple archives is a methodological gesture at assembling a range of cultural objects that include her body of work, including the aural, visual, and aesthetic performance of her work; along with the archive of work produced with or about her that often situates itself around accounts of her biography. With this understanding of her archive, the approach is to see how Fassie figuratively operates, presenting contesting identities through which she can move in and out of multiple temporalities that are often contradictory. Fassie’s ability to transgress while equally forming a part of national historic discourse allows us to inquire into the ways that she complicates notions of gender and sexuality – and how these continue to shape current articulations of feminism in post-apartheid South Africa.
dc.description.sponsorshipEDIT: Equality in Democracy as Transformation Project (University of the Witwatersrand, Helsinki University and University of Addis Ababa) funded by the Academy of Finland.
dc.description.submitterMM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationQwesha, Qhama. (2023). She’s Not a Bad Girl, Brenda Fassie: Past, Present and Future, A Canon for the Construction of Post Colonial Feminist Consciousness. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/40145
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/40145
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights©2023 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Literature, Language and Media
dc.subjectNation
dc.subjectErotic
dc.subjectIntimate public
dc.subjectPost feminism
dc.subjectWomanhood
dc.subjectMemory
dc.subjectTime
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subject.otherSDG-5: Gender equality
dc.titleShe’s Not a Bad Girl, Brenda Fassie: Past, Present and Future, A Canon for the Construction of Post Colonial Feminist Consciousness
dc.typeDissertation
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