Joan Hambidge, The Text Will Take Me There / Rina Sherman

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Joan Hambidge, The Text Will Take Me There

Rina Sherman

HD, colour, 51 min, 2011–2022

A cineportrait of Joan Hambidge, a poet, literary theorist and academic. She has published over 25 volumes of poetry and has written extensively on Postmodernism, deconstruction and gender. Her second collection of poetry, Bitterlemoene (1986), won the Eugène N. Marais Prize. She was a professor at the School of Literature and languages at the University of Cape Town. Professor Hambidge is currently a Fellow at UCT.
In this cineportrait, Joan Hambidge talks about writing, teaching creative writing, the theory of modern literature and about the sexual discrimination she endured under the criminal racist regime of pre-Mandela South Africa.

VOICES
Meetings with Remarkable People
Rencontres avec des personnes remarquables

A Collection of Cineportraits by Rina Sherman