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Antidote for Global Feminist Gaps As Encoded in Sindiwe Magona’s Black South African Autobiographies

Rafapa, Lesibana (Nova Science Publishers, 2014-09)

The relatively new black woman South African writer Sindiwe Magona’s autobiographies To My Children’s Children (1990) and Mother to Mother (1998) urge the agency of oppressed black South African women in a nuanced manner. ...
Artistic Innovation Through Cultural Symbols: A Strategy for Sustainable Development in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207

Rafapa, Lesibana (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)

This peer-reviewed book chapter looks at the post-1994 Hillbrow novel, Room 207 by Kgebetli Moele, (2006), with a view to tracing its thematic and stylistic successes or failures in branding indigenous African thinking as ...
The content, handling and role of oral history in the Zion Christian Church

Rafapa, Lesibana (Research Institute for Theology and Religion of the University of South Africa, 2013)

The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) has been documented as an AIC the trope of Christian religion of which is tampered with Africanism. Such an Africanism encapsulates the valuing of oral history and other aspects of orature ...
Earning the Right to Wear Midnight: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching

Donaldson, Eileen (Macfarland, 2014)

This paper considers Terry Pratchett’s sophisticated use of dark fairy tale motifs in his Tiffany Aching quartet: The Wee Free Men (2003), A Hat Full of Sky (2004), The Wintersmith (2006) and I Shall Wear Midnight (2010). ...
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 ...
Micro and macro Intergenerational oral communication in the Zion Christian Church

Rafapa, Lesibana (Routledge, 2016-04)

This chapter looks at the cultural significance of poetry that is presented orally within the Zion Christian Church (ZCC). While such poetry belongs to the African Initiated Church's oral tradition, my method of analyzing ...
Okun Radio Online as an Impetus for Maintaining the Dialects and Cultural Heritage of Okun- Yoruba People

Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo (Routledge., 2019)
Shelley and the Italian Tradition

Weinberg, Alan M. (Oxford Univarsity Press, 2013)

Shelley's interest in the Italian tradition is of singular importance in his development as a writer and thinker. Troughout his literary career, roughly from 1808 to 1822, Shelley encountered, read, studied, conceptualized, ...
South African Drum Writers of Fiction: The English Language and African Identity

Rafapa, Lesibana (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

The peer reviewed book chapter discusses how, in idiosyncratic ways, the various South African writers of the 1950s domesticate their medium of writing through the infusion of Africanist outlook into their fiction.
Transcultural memory and intertextuality in Fred Khumalo’s seven steps to heaven

Masemola, Kgomotso (Univarsity of South Africa Press, 2014)

Enriching the mise-en-scene of a South Africa in transition with everything ranging from the music of the famous Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes troupe and South African trio dubbed ‘Joy’ to movie titles, this novel by ...
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)
Young Women in Theatre and Film Production: The Case of Ugandan “Art-repreneur” Kemiyondo Coutinho

Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo (CASA AFRICA, 2018)

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