“Born in Africa but...”

The study is dedicated to the poetry of South African
post-Apartheid women's poetry. Working with the primary texts, the
poems themselves, the focus is on different aspects of identity
which are major topics in South African poetry in general. The
second and main part of the study looks into the most obviously
recurring themes of contemporary South African women’s poetry: •
ethnic identity, the identity within a certain group of society and
the depiction of the relations between the ethnic groups, is
treated in Chapter VI, • gender identity, a discussion of gender
problems and womanhood and motherhood, in Chapter VII and •
professional identity, being an artist, a woman poet, in Chapter
VIII.