Journal publications by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden
Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2022) In search of reciprocity: Feminist challenges in Posthumanist thinking–An intellectual meditation. Agenda. 36(1): 43-53.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2020) The Arts in the time of pandemic. Agenda. 34(3): 148-153. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1783888.
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Govinden, Betty (2019) “Two oceans marathon” – women from the South. Agenda. 33(3): 34-41. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2019.1680258.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2018) “Women Doing History Differently.” African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning. 2(1): 30-46.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2014) Book Review of Reading Migration and Culture: The World of East Africa Indian Literature. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 26(1): 102-106. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2014.897823.
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Amin, Nyna & Govinden, Betty (2014) Autobiographies, biographies and writing lives. Agenda. 28(1): 3-6.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2011) A fire that blazed in the ocean–Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909-1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 29: 158-161.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2011) Remembering “Salisbury Island”. Yesterday & Today. 6: 53-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2009) Healing the wounds of history: South African Indian writing. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 21(1-2): 286-302. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2009.9678322.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2009) Claiming Pandita Ramabai in an Indian Christian diasporic location in the early 20th century: spelling out the fragments of a broken geography. Migration-challenge to religious identity. 2: 113-132.
Hofmeyr, Isabel & Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam (2008) Africa/India: Culture and Circulation in the Indian Ocean. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. 13(2): 5-15.
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Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam (2008) The Mahatma, the text and the critic—in South Africa. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. 13(2): 47-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2003) Aziz Hassim’s “The Lotus People”. Annual Review of Islam in South Africa 6. 60-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1998) ‘While she watered the morning glories’: evaluating the literary achievement of Gcina Mhlophe. African Literature Today. (21): 69-81.
Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1995) Reading Back: Images of God in Pauline Smith’s “The Little Karroo”. Journal of constructive theology. 1(1): 75-90.
Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1994) Women-Searching in South Africa. Journal of theology for Southern Africa. 89: 3-3.
Books by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden
Govinden, Devarakshanam (2021) The Story of Senthamani 1923-2021 – Commemorative Centenary.
Govinden, Devarakshanam (2015) 1913 Satyagraha Passive Resistance and Its Legacy. Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers & Distributors.
Govinded, Devarakshanam (2010) Reflections on Recent Writing. Lap Publishing, Germany.
Govinden, Devarakshanam (2008) Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press.
Govinden, Devarakshanam (2008) A Time of Memory reflections on recent South African Writings. Durban: Solo Collective.
Phiri, Isabel Apawo; Govinden, Devarakshanam & Nadar, Sarojini (Eds) (2002) Her Stories: Hidden Histories of Women of Faith in Africa. Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal: Cluster Publications.
Book chapters by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden
Govinden, Devarakshanam (2014) Introduction in Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice: Five South African Plays. Ashwin Singh. Aurora Metro Books.
Amin, Nyna & Govinden, Devarakshanam (2012) Sari stories: Fragmentary images of ‘Indian woman’. In Was it something I wore? DRESS IDENTITY MATERIALITY. Relebohile Moletsane, Claudia Mitchell & Ann Smith (Eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pp. 323-340.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2009) Review of Allison Drew, Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting 1873–1936. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 27: 85-87. 10.1080/02590123.2009.11964155.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2002) ‘The Mother of African Freedom’– The Contribution of Charlotte Maxeke to the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa. In Her-stories: Hidden Histories of Women of Faith in Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster. Pp. 304-326.
Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2000) AGAINST AN AFRICAN SKY: COOLIE DOCTOR: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. In The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Essays in Criticism. A.L. McLeod (Ed). New Delhi: Sterling. Pp. 82.
Theses by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden
Govinden, Devarakshanam (2000) Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women. Doctoral Thesis. University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Poetry by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden
Govinden, Devarakshanam (2022) IN MEMORIAMFOR PROFESSOR BRIJ VILASH LAL (1952-2021). Indialogs. 9: 99-101.
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