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This manuscript is one of four manuscripts that share results from an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study about transgender and/or gender expansive youth. Nine participants aged 13–17 participated in two 60–90-min interviews and a member-checking meeting in which they co-constructed the findings with the primary researcher. The findings...
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The (re)production of women in isiXhosa literature cannot be disjointed from the social realities that women experience. Young girls are no exception to this view. In fact, women’s issues could be regarded as pertinent to such an extent that dialogues concerning them ought to be initiated within isiXhosa scholarly discourses, among other platforms. This is against the reality that women have often been sidelined, especially in African literature as well as in the broader African social context, thus, there is an urgent demand to celebrate their voices today and tomorrow. With this in mind, this article aims to critique how women are depicted in Indlal’Inamanyala (Obscenity) (1994). By the same token, the objective is to comprehend how women’s realities are made visible and/or invisible in this isiXhosa drama. An African feminist theory is applied to uncover and discourse identified women’s issues and their (un)silenced voices. The findings and discussions indicate that women’s constructive contributions to society continue to be downplayed because of certain legacies of colonialism, apartheid, and traditional systems. The conclusion underlines the necessity to draw an interconnectedness between women and isiXhosa literature in an effort to address and mitigate the persisting injustices that adversely affect women in South Africa and elsewhere in the global village.
