Black Consciousness in Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother (1998)
Keywords:
Awareness, Africa, Black Consciousness, Mother to Mother, Sindiwe MagonaAbstract
Since the end of direct colonization, African literature has remained anchored in a new direction of consciousness-raising and awakening for black people. This literature, which has always served as a means of expression and protest in the face of social challenges, has since served as a tool for learning and education. In this work, we intend to provide an analytical explanation and exploration on the representation of Black consciousness in Sindiwe Magona's work of forgiveness, Mother to Mother. Indeed, national consciousness has profoundly impacted Magona’s writing. From her To My Children’s Children (Magona, To My Children's Children, 1994), Mud Chic (Fraser et al., 2006), Beauty’s Gift (Magona, Beauty's Gift, 2018), and When the Village Sleeps (Magona, When the Village Sleeps, 2021) she makes questions social and political images. Black Consciousness encompasses an awareness of discrimination and heritage with resistance to injustice, self-appropriation and self-redefinition. Black Consciousness is a central aspect of resistance to injustice. It originated in the social and political movements under the apartheid regime from 1948 to 1994 in South Africa and under the decolonial struggles in the other African ex-colonized countries. In this work, we seek to analyze the question throughout Mother to Mother.
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