- Title
- Visible Wars and Invisible Women: interrogating women's roles during wartime in Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting: a novel of Uganda at war
- Creator
- Spencer, Lynda G
- Date Issued
- 2015
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138880
- Identifier
- vital:37682
- Identifier
- https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC177790
- Description
- Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War explores the atrocities that ordinary people experience during wartime by placing emphasis on the private suffering and humiliation inflicted on women in the domestic space of the home. This article argues that even if women do not actively feature on the battleground, they are still inadvertently drawn into the war, which has an adverse impact on their lives. Kyomuhendo draws on the experiences of different female characters to problematize the inherently ambiguous symbolic image of the mother, and shows that the violence performed on women's bodies is a result of the interplay between two hegemonic forces, patriarchal authority and state power.
- Format
- 20 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English in Africa
- Relation
- Spencer, L.G., 2015. Visible Wars and Invisible Women: interrogating women's roles during wartime in Goretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting: a novel of Uganda at war. English in Africa, 42(2), pp.109-128.
- Relation
- English in Africa volume 42 number 2 109 128 September 2015 0376-8902
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