DE HOME GIRLS A WORLD GIRLS - A CASA DENTRO DE SI

Abstract

Searching for metaphors in and for the literature produced by women has been one of the strands of feminist literary criticism which perceives the importance of seeing the literary production of women as a coherent set that builds unique social and cultural meanings and, in this way, enables a greater visibility for this literature, destabilizing the commonly association of authorship with masculinity. In this article, from the metaphor ‘home girls’ created to read the work of African American writers, we propose, within the literary field of South Africa, the metaphor ‘world girls’ to identify alternative representations for female identities in the literature produced by black South African authors emerging in the post-apartheid period, as well as to interpret the social function of their literary works.

KEYWORDS: Feminist literary criticism; Black women’s literature; South Africa.