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Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer deur Lou-Marié Kruger. Uitgewer: UKZN Press Women. Prys: R385.
Mens kan jouself indink dat Of Motherhood and Melancholia by necessity ’n swaa boek moes wies om te skryf. It is certainly ’n swaa boek om oo te skryf, swaa om te categorize en swaa om op al die themes yt te brei. Innie skrywer en psychotherapist Lou-Marié Kruger se eie woorde: “In Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer I write about almost two decades of clinical and research encounters I have had in the Dwarsrivier Valley.”
Die groot meederheid vannie boek consist yt interviews mette groep coloured meisies en vroue van Dwarsrivier Valley, ’n impoverished community byte Stellenbosch. Die main text bestaan yt nege chapters – “Prologue”, “Home”, “Birth”, “Love”, “Labour”, “Hunger”, “Distress”, “Death” en “Epilogue”
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