Kharnita Mohamed, Called to Song. Cape Town: Kwela, 2018. Pages: 288. ISBN PRINT: 9780795708589

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Ayesha Kajee

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Called to Song documents the journey of a woman towards full self-actualisation, after having lived an outwardly perfect life for decades. It examines the intergenerational impacts of gender-based violence on families, and of quasi-religious patriarchy and internalised racism on communities. The novel is located in a South Africa that, far from being the happy-clappy rainbow nation that the political evangelists would have us swallow, continues to be traumatised by its apartheid past and the enduring inequalities which our history has bequeathed us...

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May 26, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14426/ajgr.v24i2.837

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Kharnita Mohamed, Called to Song. Cape Town: Kwela, 2018. Pages: 288. ISBN PRINT: 9780795708589. (2020). African Journal of Gender and Religion, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.14426/ajgr.v24i2.837
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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018)
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Kharnita Mohamed, Called to Song. Cape Town: Kwela, 2018. Pages: 288. ISBN PRINT: 9780795708589. (2020). African Journal of Gender and Religion, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.14426/ajgr.v24i2.837