Foregrounding historical consciousness as a critical resource for emancipatory potential from a gendered identity : a case of reinventing the self from marginality in Christine Hagion’s selected poems

• Published in: African renaissance Vol. 15; no. Special 1; pp. 221 - 237
• Main Author: Mkhatshwa, Elijah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London. United Kingdom Adonis & Abbey Publishers 01.12.2018; Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
• Subjects: African literature; Agency; Consciousness; Domestic violence; Emancipatory potential; Gender identity; Hagion, Christine; Historical consciousness; Identity; Identity formation; Intimate partner violence; Marginality; Poetry; Self concept; Social construction; Suffering; Voice; Women; New York; United States > US

This article examines how questioning the naive model of the social construction of the 'Other' and the Self as 'unique, single and unchanging' enlightens any would-be reader of the awakening of consciousness for the possibility of forging "new subject positions". Such...