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In this article a discussion on migrant theatre in South Africa is given, with special reference to Mike van Graan’s play When Swallows Cry (2017). In the introduction a short background is given in terms of migration ...
Nicola Hanekom’s Land van Skedels had its premiere at the Clover Aardklop National
Arts Festival in October 2013 and this production, as well as later ones, received
glowing receptions from both theatre audience and ...
Yaël Farber’s 2012 adaptation of August Strindberg’s classic play Miss Julie entitled Mies Julie and subtitled Restitutions of Body and Soil since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927, ...
The changing world of Afrikaans drama translations and adaptations: A few remarks This article highlights a few aspects within the Afrikaans theatre tradition of drama translations and adaptations. A short historical ...
NP van Wyk Louw’s Die pluimsaad waai ver, of Bitter begin revisited The historical play Die pluimsaad waai ver, of Bitter begin (“The plume seeds are blown far, or Bitter beginning”) by NP van Wyk Louw was commissioned for ...
Carney, Terrence R(Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd, 2020-05)
The canon that dictates that words be interpreted according to their ordinary meaning has been widely debated. Many studies have either highlighted the shortcomings of the ordinary meaning principle or have tried to debunk ...
This chapter explores the ways in which some identity signifiers in sign language may be seen as examples of hate speech. The issue is considered by posing three questions: To what extent do iconic signs qualify as hate ...
The interpretation of words in case law is often a central focal point, especially when the ordinary meaning of words is contested. One of the more popular ways to determine the ordinary meaning of words is by looking it ...
This article gauges s 8 of South Africa’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and highlights its lack of clarity and prescriptive guidelines on crisis risk communication. Paragraph 8(2)(e) specifically obliges employers to ...
In S v Molefe the presiding officer determines the meaning of the word "disposal" at the hand of two criteria, namely visibility and permanence; this means a body has to be permanently out of sight to be considered disposed ...
Northover, Richard Alan(Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2016-01-20)
Atwood comments that her MaddAddam trilogy is neither apocalyptic nor
utopian. Nor is the Waterless Flood, the central catastrophic event around
which the various narratives of the trilogy cohere, an ecological ...
Northover, Richard Alan; Fourie, Reinhardt(Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2017-03-01)
On 15 April 2016, the South African Society for General Literary Studies/
Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Algemene Literatuurwetenskap (SASGLS/
SAVAL) hosted a colloquium at the University of South Africa on the ...
Northover, Richard Alan(Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2017-03-01)
Strangeness, based on the ambivalence of the uncanny, characterises both the preand
post-apocalyptic worlds of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. Whereas
Spiegel (2010) makes a convincing case for the neomedievalism ...
Northover, Richard Alan(Routledge Taylor&Francis, 2014-08-12)
The article aims to excavate some layers of Western philosophy in order to see how
far Western thinkers can illuminate aspects of prehistoric rock art. It will focus on
David Lewis-Williams’s neuropsychological and ...
Northover, Richard Alan(Institute for the Study of English in Africa Rhodes University P O Box 94 Grahamstown 6140, 2014-05)
Considering how fruitfully Schopenhauer’s philosophy promises to provide a unified interpretation of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and The Lives of Animals, the critical neglect of this philosopher seems surprising. Schopenhauer ...
Northover, Richard Alan(Institute for the Study of English in Africa Rhodes University P O Box 94 Grahamstown 6140, 2012-05)
J.M. Coetzee’s use of the persona, Elizabeth Costello, in several short pieces as well as in The Lives of Animals, Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man has had a mixed reaction amongst reviewers and critics, and Costello herself, ...
The article aims to position JM Coetzee’s The lives of animals within the animal rights debate and assess both his use of and his failure to use key philosophical texts in the animal rights movement. This task is complicated ...