WOMEN'S RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION IN A DEFIANCE TO APARTHEID'S LEGACY IN LUEEN CONNING'S A COLOURED PLACE

Authors

  • Hayder Gebreen Assistant Lecturer of English Literature, Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University, Iraq
  • Mujtaba Al-Hilo Lecturer of English Literature, Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University, Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejlll.v4i3.216

Keywords:

Lueen Conning (Malika Ndlovu), A Coloured Place, Apartheid, women oppression, Black South African theater

Abstract

Lueen Conning explores in her play A Coloured Place (henceforth ACP), the destructive effects of the Apartheid system in South Africa on South African post- Apartheid women. This paper gives a critical, contextual analysis of ACP (1998) by Lueen Conning. It investigates the feminist elements that are found in the play to show how that authoritarian system affected their lives even after its fall, especially colored women and the need to raise awareness of its effects. The colored protagonist of the takes a key role in revealing the suffering of a hybrid females individuals in a post-Apartheid South African society and the potential consequences of that hybrid identity. This paper also examines the autobiographical elements that are found in the play. Therefore, it likewise shows how female playwrights like Lueen Conning (Malika Ndlovu) are trying to lead the social change in the post-Apartheid society through portrayal of heroines' abuse and raising awareness of women's problems in that racist oppressive society. They are successful to show the failure of the system although they are becoming lonely outsiders by that system. The context of the study and the literature review have paved the way by providing the theoretical basis for the analysis of the play. Thus, this short study sheds the light on how Apartheid South Africa state affects the social change, but it is similarly demonstrating the resistance to that abusive world of that era.

Author Biographies

  • Hayder Gebreen, Assistant Lecturer of English Literature, Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University, Iraq
    Hayder Gebreen is an Assistant Lecturer of English Literature at Imam Ja'afar Al-Sadiq University, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education, University of Kufa. Born on March 5th, 1989, Najaf, Iraq, Holds, B.A. in English Language and Literature 2013, University of Kufa, College of Arts, Iraq, and a M.A. in English Language and Literature 2016, University of Al-Qadisiya, College of Education, Iraq. He is a PhD student at the National University of Malaysia, Dept of English Language Studies, and Linguistics. He worked as Translator for MSF. He has published several research articles and a book.
  • Mujtaba Al-Hilo, Lecturer of English Literature, Imam Ja’afar Al-Sadiq University, Iraq
    Dr. Mujtaba Al-Hilo is a Lecturer of English Literature at Imam Ja'afar Al-Sadiq University. His studies are focused on postmodern literary theories. His main research interests are concentrated on cultural studies and continental philosophy and the way the latest Orientalist attitudes are represented in literary texts. He has published a number of research articles and books in both English and Arabic.

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2020-10-15

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Vol. 4 No. 3 (2020)

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