South African writer and performance artist (born 1966)
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Born
(1966-02-17) 17 February 1966 (age 58)
Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality
South African
Education
Rhodes University; University of the Witwatersrand; Lecoq International School of Theatre; Lancaster University
Occupation(s)
Poet, performance artist
Notable work
The Everyday Wife (2010)
Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 17 February 1966)[1] is a South African writer and performance artist who performs her work nationally and internationally. She is noted for her poetry, which has been published in collections and in many magazines and anthologies, as well as for her autobiographical one-woman show, Original Skin, which centres on her confusion about her identity at a young age, as the biracial daughter of an Australian mother and a Ghanaian father who was adopted and raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa.[2] She has written: "I became Phillippa Yaa when I found my biological father, who told me that if he had been there when I was born, the first name I'd have been given would be a day name like all Ghanaian babies, and all Thursday girls are Yaa, Yawo, or Yaya. So by changing my name I intended to inscribe a feeling of belonging and also one of pride on my African side. After growing up black in white South Africa, internalising so many negative 'truths' of what black people are like, I needed to reclaim my humanity and myself from the toxic dance of objectification."[3] She has also said: "Because I wasn't told that I was adopted until I was twenty, I lacked a vocabulary to describe who I am and where I come from, so performing and writing became ways to make myself up."[4] As Tishani Doshi observes in the New Indian Express: "Much of her work is concerned with race, sexuality, class and gender within the South African context."[5]
^Phillippa Yaa de Villiers biography at Lyrikline.
^"Profiles – 8 South African Women Writers", African Writing Online, December/January 2008.
^"Thoughts behind Indegenius: concept for the 29th", Pulse, 8 November 2014.
^MarLa Sink Druzgal, "Around the World with the Poetry of Phillippa Yaa de Villiers", Traveling Marla.
^Tishani Doshi, "Poetry Beyond the Edge of Time", The New Indian Express, 4 October 2014.
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