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The unfamiliar Shelley

Weinberg, Alan M.; Webb, Timothy (Ashgate, 2009)

The editors have assembled an outstanding group of international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of recent advances in scholarship. With particular attention to texts that have been neglected or underestimated, ...
'The Ineffectual Angel’: Arnold's Misrepresentation of Shelley

Weinberg, Alan M. (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

Writing on Shelley's posthumous reputation, Newman Ivey White noted the 'general acclaim' which marked the poet's critical reception in the mid- and late Victorian period. Inevitably there were eminent detractors who, to ...
The intersection of experience, imaginative writing and meaning-making in Es'kia Mphahlele

Rafapa, Lesibana (University of Pretoria, 2009)

After his birth in Pretoria on 17 December 1919 followed by the formative years of his cognition at the Maupaneng village of GaMphahlele in Limpopo - as both expository and fictive writings by and on him reveal - Es'kia ...
Die produksiegehalte van Palindroom en Kladboek deur Joan Hambidge as gevallestudies binne die uitgewersbedryf

Fourie, Reinhardt (LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe), 2009-03-20)

ENGLISH: The production quality of Palindroom and Kladboek by Joan Hambidge as case studies within the publishing industry. This article investigates the quality of specific products of two publishing houses. Within ...
The Limits of Super-Rationality: A New Look at the Conception of Jupiter in Prometheus Unbound

Weinberg, Alan M. (Taylor & Francis, 2009-05-15)

In Prometheus Unbound, the empire of Jupiter is a mythic figuration of monotheism and its corresponding hegemonies, broadly conceived in both instances as the domain of supreme oppressive governance. The ties of governance ...
The use of oral hymns in African traditional Religion and the Judeo-Christian

Rafapa, Lesibana (Southern African Folklore Society, 2009-07)

When the Mamaala African rainmaking clan of South Africa performed rituals after which rain would fall in keeping with the research-established fact that African rainmaking rituals actually bring about rain (Makgopa ...
Homi Bhabha’s Third Space and African identity

Kalua, Fetson (Routledge, 2009-09-04)

This paper suggests a way of looking at postcolonial African identity as fluid, relational and always in flux. I explain this fluidity of identity by making a connection between Victor Turner’s concept of liminality and ...
Human identity and animal ethics in J.M. Coetzee’s The lives of animals

Northover, Richard Alan (Routledge, 2009-12-16)

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 ...
Transmogrifying the Traumatic into the Democratic Ideal in Autobiographical Cultural Memory: Nelson Mandela’s The Long Walk to Freedom

Masemola, Kgomotso (Peter Lang Publishers, 2010)
Identities in Transition: The 1990 High Court Case and Unity Dow's The Heavens May Fall

Kalua, Fetson (Unisa Press, 2010)

In both her life and fiction, Unity Dow's consuming engagement resides in exploring issues of female entrapment and related notions of identity (or subjectivity) predicated on the idea of the embodied, sexualised and ...
A re-shaping of gender activism in a Muslim context - Senegal

Latha, Rizwana Habib (Routledge, 2010)

Patriarchal power and male privilege are prevalent in Senegal, with strong alliances between the political and religious elite The women’s movement is characterised by its determination and activism, as discriminatory ...
The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona

Masemola, Kgomotso (Routledge, 2010-02)

This article signposts the discussion of autobiographical selfing through figures of cultural memory that are a function of double consciousness and double temporality. Two exemplary autobiographies, one by Ellen Kuzwayo ...
Hail the Conquering Campbellian S/Hero: Joanna Russ’s Alyx

Donaldson, Eileen (Macfarland, 2010-06)

For many theorists, both feminist and not, the figure of an archetypal, active female warrior hero has been problematic. Many feminists believe it is gender stereotyping to suggest that women are unable to possess the force ...
Exorcising the ghost of the past : the abandonment of obsession with apartheid in Mpe’s welcome to our Hillbrow

Rafapa, Lesibana; Mahori, Freddy (University of Pretoria, 2011)

This article examines how Phaswane Mpe’s post-apartheid novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2000), responds to Njabulo Ndebele’s idea of “rediscovering the ordinary”. This is probed through analyses of themes, characterization ...
Instances of Bessie Head’s distinctive feminism, womanism and Africanness in her novels

Rafapa, Lesibana; Nengome, A.Z.; Tshamano, H.S. (University of Pretoria, 2011)

Bessie Head was one of the Drum writers of the 1950s. As critics such as Huma Ibrahim have indicated it was only after her death in 1986 that she was included in discussions on the Drum generation. The result of her prior ...
Between Tinseltown and Sophiatown: The Double Temporality of Popular Culture in the Autobiographical Cultural Memory of Bloke Modisane and Miriam Makeba

Masemola, Kgomotso (Taylor & Francis, 2011-03)

Prompted by Paul Gilroy’s question as to how active remembrance in black expressive culture is associated with a distinctive and disjunctive temporality (1993: 212), this article brings to view divided autobiographical ...
(T)races of terrorism beyond ports of entry: a retrospective assessment of the limits of profiling in the regulation of airport passenger traffic during the 2010 FIFA World Cup

Masemola, Kgomotso; Chaka, Phil Mpho (Routledge, 2011-05)

A critical function of post-9/11 surveillance worldwide was to manage the ‘terrorist’ spectacle in public spaces such as airports and stadia. With the prospect of the 2010 World Cup looming large, aviation security in ...
Of belonging and becoming: Black atlantic (Inter‐)cultural memory in the early autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es'kia Mphahlele

Masemola, Kgomotso (Routledge, 2011-06-01)
Collegiality: can it survive the corporate university?

Weinberg, Alan M.; Graham-Smith, Greg (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

This paper raises pressing issues regarding the present and future of the university. It is strongly critical of worldwide corporatisation and the response of academics to what the authors consider to be a crisis or ...
Subtitling, literacy and education in South Africa: putting

Rafapa, Lesibana; Kruger, Jan-Louis (2012-01-25)

According to the National Research Foundation in South Africa, “the successful acquisition of language and literacy in a multilingual, multicultural and increasingly globalised and technologically driven environment ...

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