Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note for Readers; Introduction: Searching the Archive; 1. Representations of Domestic Workers; 2. Enslaved Women at the Cape: The First Domestic Workers; 3. Migrant Women and Domestic Work in the City; 4. Legislation and Black Urban Women; 5. Domestic Workers in Personal Accounts; 6. Oral Testimonies, Interviews and a Novel; 7. Domestic Workers and Children; 8. Domestic Workers and Sexuality; 9. Domestic Workers in Troubled Times; 10. Domestic Workers in Post-apartheid Novels by White Authors
11. Domestic Workers in Post-apartheid Novels by Black Authors12. Domestic Workers Bridge the Gap; Notes; Artists and Photographers; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Like Family examines the ambivalent position of domestic workers in South Africa in the contact zone between race and class, urban and rural, rich and poor, and white and black. Ena Jansen offers a historical perspective whilst analysing South African literary texts to understand their representation of domestic workers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
An updated and reworked translation of Soos familie: stedelike huiswerkers in Suid-Afrikaanse tekste
