Knitting in Southern African Fiction
Betty LaDuke, in her study of visual art in Zimbabwe, writes: The missionary legacy in Zimbabwe is two-fold. In addition to the cross, the other visible but seldom discussed tool is the crochet hook. This tool has become a subtle means of encouraging women's passive creativity as they produced endless yards of intricately designed white tablecloths and doilies for upper-class White and Black Africans and tourists. LaDuke's "passive creativity" contributed to the once vibrant tourist economy of the region. Its new place in the fiction of southern Africa is quite different...
"Knitting in Southern African Fiction" in In the Loop: Knitting Now, Jessica Hemmings (ed) London: Black Dog Press, 2010: 34-37.