Leana van der Merwe

My research looks at texts (both literary and visual), by South African women, that can be described as both postcolonial and feminist. The focus of my research is a comparative and affective reading of these texts, through a consideration of a selection of themes or tropes which are identified in the selected texts. This is done within a framework of multiplicity and hybridity identified in the postcolonial settings in which these women find themselves, whilst simultaneously considering the complex intersection of race, class and gender in these contexts.