Abstract
ABSTRACTIn A Question of Power, Bessie Head explores how South Africa's apartheid history has been transcribed upon female bodies. Head interrogates female madness as a vehicle to transverse and recollect the historical memories and personal stories of apartheid South Africa. In this essay, I explore the socio-cultural, racialized and gendered political stories that shape female identity during times of political transition. In so doing, I examine the dialectical interplay between good and evil within the borderlands of a world divided by race and gender. I proffer that Head's “soul evolution,” as she refers to it, is intrinsically connected to the sexual dynamics of masculine power and the struggle for self-autonomy.
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