David’s Story (2002) pertinently brings to the fore the way in which the female body was (ab)used and the female voice silenced in the name of a phallocentric South African nation-building project both in the early nineteenth century and the post-1990 transitional period. In doing so, it courageously strays from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s implicit assumption that healing and reconciliation ultimately serve the higher goal of forgetting and moving on. This article traces the means by which Wicomb shifts the focus to the way in which, despite the discursive silencing of the experiences of torture and rape within the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), female cadres were able to carve out a space of agency in which they could speak through endurance, defiance, and even silence.

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佐伊·威科姆 (Zoë Wicomb) 的大卫故事中的性别包容和排斥

大卫的故事 (2002) 有针对性地突出了在 19 世纪早期和 1990 年后以男性中心南非国家建设项目的名义（ab）使用女性身体和沉默女性声音的方式过渡期。这样做，它勇敢地偏离了真相与和解委员会的隐含假设，即治愈与和解最终服务于遗忘和继续前进的更高目标。这篇文章追溯了 Wicomb 将焦点转移到这样一种方式上，尽管在非国大武装翼 Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) 中对酷刑和强奸的经历进行了话语沉默，但女干部能够开辟出一个代理空间他们可以通过忍耐、反抗甚至沉默来说话。