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OverviewMore than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in in postapartheid society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. ‘Like family’ they may be, but they and their employers know they can never be real family.Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. This established social hierarchies and patterns of behaviour and interaction that persist to the present day, and are still evident in the predicament of the black female domestic worker.To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Authors include André Brink, JM Coetzee, Imraan Coovadia, Nadine Gordimer, Elsa Joubert, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Kopano Matlwa, Es'kia Mphahlele, Sisonke Msimang, Zukiswa Wanner and Zoë Wicomb.. Later texts by black authors offer wry and subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships.Like Family is an updated version of the award-winning Soos familie published in 2015 and the highly-acclaimed 2016 Dutch translation, Bijna familie. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ena JansenPublisher: Wits University Press Imprint: Wits University Press Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9781776143511ISBN 10: 1776143515 Pages: 382 Publication Date: 01 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to Readers Introduction Searching the archive Chapter 1 Domestic workers in South Africa Chapter 2 Enslaved women at the Cape – Precursors to the culture of domestic work Chapter 3 Migrant women and domestic work in the city Chapter 4 Legislation governing the lives of urban women Chapter 5 Domestic workers in personal accounts Chapter 6 Testimonies of domestic workers – Interviews, stories and a novel Chapter 7 Domestic workers and children Chapter 8 Domestic workers and sexuality Chapter 9 Domestic workers in times of political unrest and protest Chapter 10 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by white authors Chapter 11 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by black authors Chapter 12 Domestic workers on the threshold Bibliography IndexReviewsLike Family deepens our understanding of how the institution both reflects and reproduces the savage inequalities on which our society continues to be based. -Jacklyn Cock, author of Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of Exploitation My hope is that Like Family leads to a national dialogue and a reassessment of domestic work. This is an important book for both maids and madams.-Sindiwe Magona, author of To My Children's Children Like Family deepens our understanding of how the institution both reflects and reproduces the savage inequalities on which our society continues to be based.-Jacklyn Cock, author of Maids and Madams: A Study in the Politics of Exploitation Author InformationEna Jansen was professor of South African literature at the University of Amsterdam until 2016. She obtained her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand where she lectured for 16 years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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