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This a weekly column about whatever I like, for whoever likes it, offering down-to-earth insights into family life, social issues, and cultural critique.
I am a mother, a lapsed academic, a wife, and a Christian. I am a white South African, a Joburger, A Clergyman’s Daughter and an over-thinker. I am a reader, a community cellist, and the chief-cook-and-bottle-washer of our home. My favourite things are talking about books with my friends, dinner parties (of every variety, fancy with flowers and candles or shared fish-fingers over wine while the kids dirty my just-swept floor), and hanging out with my family in our garden.
I love language, liturgy, and critical theory. I have a PhD in narrative psychology and believe we are the stories we tell.
My most recent book, Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial: Beyond Bourdieu in South Africa, was published by Routledge in 2018. Please order a copy for your varsity library.
My forthcoming book, A Clergyman’s Daughter, is being published by Modjaji Books in late 2025. Stay tuned for updates!
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/hannah
