Team > Tomupeishe Maphosa
Tomupeishe Maphosa
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures
Academic Studies
B.A. (Hons) English and Communication, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
MA. Intercultural Anglophone Studies, Bayreuth University, Germany
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures
Research Interests:
Lived feminisms, gender studies, racism, postcolonial and diasporic studies
Current Research Projects:
(Past) Realities as Feminist Dystopias in Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name.
Yvonne Vera’s Transtextual Feminisms.
My research focuses on exploring feminisms in their multiplicity of experiences while considering the influence of transtextuality negotiated in the work of Yvonne Vera. Particular attention will be paid to the reformist, transformative and/or radical characteristics of African feminist literature portrayed in Vera’s writings. Vera’s literature is subversive in nature and rebellious in its narrative techniques, which contribute to activist thinking, transgressions against patriarchy, and new and strategic visions that create feminist possibilities against the backdrop of patriarchal oppression. Feminist possibilities are made reality through applications of power, agency, opacity and inclusion.
The concern of this study will therefore be threefold: conceptualisation of women in feminist novels, exploring feminisms in an African (colonial) context, and the negotiation of power for individual and societal change.
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures
Tomupeishe Maphosa
PhD candidate