The tailored suit : a reimagining of Can Themba's The Suit

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dc.contributor.authorLelliott, Kitso Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2011-09-22T07:18:58Z
dc.date.available2011-09-22T07:18:58Z
dc.date.issued2011-09-22
dc.description.abstractThis research report examines the period of 1950s Sophiatown and its socio-­‐cultural legacy pertaining to race and gender. Though the establishment of a cosmopolitan black identity was significant in its undermining of Nationalist Party segregationist ideology, the struggle for equality was predicated on a racial struggle that subsumed a gendered agenda. The work of Can Themba and Drum magazine, which have become mythologized in the contemporary South African imaginary, are interrogated with particular emphasis on one of Themba’s iconic pieces, The Suit. Through engagement with Themba’s text, this research report foregrounds the processes through which black women have been subjected to multiple, compounded subjugation. In response to the representations of black femininity in The Suit, the film component of this report, The Tailored Suit, privileges the black woman, Matilda’s, articulations. It thus functions to foreground the agency of marginalised subjects. In articulating from the periphery, the subjugated destabilise the hierarchical social structures that would subordinate and objectify them. By engaging the representations in The Suit, part of an iconic historic moment prefiguring the contemporary socio-­‐cultural milieu, the reimagining in The Tailored Suit offers a fragmented frame of reference, positing an alternative to a homogenising masculine discourse on history.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/10443
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSophiatownen_US
dc.subjectBlack womenen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectRacismen_US
dc.subjectMotion picturesen_US
dc.titleThe tailored suit : a reimagining of Can Themba's The Suiten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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