| Author | Pumla Dineo Gqola |
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781920601089 |
| Pages | 158 |
| Publisher | jacana media (pty) ltd |
| Manufacturer | Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd |
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A Renegade called Simphiwe is award-winning feminist writer and scholar Pumla Dineo Gqola's exploration of the public lives of the artist Simphiwe Dana, a rebel with several causes.
In eight essays, Gqola shows why Simphiwe Dana is arguably the most significant cultural figure working in contemporary South Africa today. Dana's musical repertoire, self-styling choices, public debates and growing written output display her causes. Controversy, tabloid headlines and fluctuating public responses to Ms Dana all reveal South African sensitivities on blackness, femininity, language and the imagination.
How do we explain Dana's place as both South Africa's darling and her uncanny ability to push Mzansi's buttons? asks the author. Part intellectual biography and part commentary on South African contemporary culture, Gqola has captured a must-read portrait of Dana, her music and writing, her cultural activism, the vision in her work, and changing politics against the background of a changing post-apartheid popular culture.
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