Possessing the Voice of The Other

Nontsasa Nako, Post-graduate researcher
University of Cape Town

Possessing the Voice of The Other: African Women and the Crises of Representation in Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy.

This paper locates Walker's totalizing tendencies in representation and posits that they result from her failure to address the differences within the category of black women. The paper argues for a reading of gender that focuses on location rather than race or gender as a unifying factor.