Rethinking Motherhood beyond South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Published in 2009, Fatima Dike’s “The Return” foregrounds ongoing challenges concerning reconciliation and healing in post-apartheid South Africa. Analyzing this play as a work of post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission drama, this article argues the mother in the play is a response to the gendered...

The International Journal of Diverse Identities

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