Like Family : Domestic Workers In South African History And Literature - 9781776143511

An analytic and historical perspective of literary texts to understand the position of domestic workers in South Africa More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas,rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. Ena Jansen shows that domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery, establishing social hierarchies and patterns of behavior that persist today. LikeFamily is an updated version of the award-winning Soos familie (2015) and the highly-acclaimed 2016 Dutch translation, Bijna familie.

• | Author: Ena Jansen
• | Publisher: Wits University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 382 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1776143515
• | ISBN-13: 9781776143511