"I think I’m always finding moments to do that. But also there’s this notion that in this particular moment in history, women just knew how to do this, they were so domesticated and they just followed recipes and cakes came out and they were all fluffy and wonderful. I don’t think that was every woman. I had the very anti-domestication thing going on in the novel because I think that’s also a way of narrowing our own narratives about ourselves, you know, you’re mothers and wives and this is why you were happy and this is how we know you. But what if you were not good at being a mother or wife, what does that mean"
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‘I was fascinated by the idea of women existing beyond the confines of the patriarchy and colonialism’—An interview with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu on The Creation of Half-Broken People,18 October 2024
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