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Resetting the clockocracy: time and memory in Joanna Russ’s The Adventures of Alyx

Donaldson, Eileen (Taylor and Francis, 2012-11)

This article offers a literary analysis of the short stories The Adventures of Alyx, by feminist speculative fiction author Joanna Russ. I argue that Russ uses the literary devices of time travel and different kinds of ...

Oral literature and the evolving Jim-goes-to-town motif: Some early Northern Sotho compared to selected post-apartheid novels written in English

Rafapa, Lesibana (2016-09-16)

The continuation of the discourses of apartheid era African language literature characterized by the makgoweng motif in post-apartheid English literature written by black people has not been studied adequately. In this ...

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 ...

Non-curricular postgraduate writing interventions at South African universities

Vivian, Brenda; Fourie, Reinhardt (2016)

Formalised postgraduate writing support centres are a relatively new phenomenon at the majority of South African universities and have not yet been researched intensively. This article, which forms part of a mandated study, ...

South African Khoisan Literature in the Context of World Literary Discourse

Rafapa, Lesibana (Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), 2016-05-10)

I demonstrate how South African Khoisan literature enriches literary discourse in the global context, using the criteria of strangeness, cross-cultural dialogue and social cohesion. I consider the spatial-cultural inflections ...

Dissolved black identity in dominant critiques of black South African literature

Rafapa, Lesibana (2015-08-20)

This paper outlines dominant views of South African English literature critics from the 19th century to the present. Against this backdrop, I examine some English texts written by blacks in order to demonstrate how attempts ...

Critical Review of New Writing from Southern Africa: Authors who have become prominent since 1980

Masemola, Kgomotso (Routledge, 1995-08-30)

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 ...

The repetition of the nomos of cultural memory in Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Mamphela Ramphele's A Life

Masemola, Kgomotso (Taylor & Francis, 2013-08)

This article points to the repetition of figures of memory in autobiography as a condition of entry into a distinct temporality of ‘worldliness’. The said entry, as the two autobiographies by Nelson Mandela and Mamphela ...

Reverie qua ‘Worldliness’ in the Wilderness Texts: the Autobiographical Fiction of Es’kia Mphahlele and Chabani Manganyi

Masemola, Kgomotso (Routledge, 2012-04)

Written from the culmination point of exile in the universities of Denver and Yale, the two fictional autobiographies of Es’kia Mphahlele and Noel Chabani Manganyi mobilize reverie to hold in counterpoise the harsh reality ...

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)

The Complicated Memory of Obama’s ‘Middle Ground’ Rhetoric of Colorblindedness versus the reality of ‘Stand Your Ground’ policing: The Silent Return of ‘Race’ in the aftermath of Treyvon Martin’s Shooting in the USA’s Zones of Exception and Non-Being

Masemola, Kgomotso (African Association for Rhetoric, 2014)

This paper charts the complications arising out of the rhetorical markers of ‘Middle Ground’ colorblindedness in the unitary fervour attending Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention Speech, wherein the E pluribus ...

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)

Fixing the hiatus between the habitus of memory and nostalgia

Masemola, Kgomotso (Taylor & Francis, 2012-11)

Dennis Walder’s Postcolonial Nostalgias (2011) demonstrates coherent scholarship based on a critique of representation. It delves into the twilight zone identified by E.J. Hobsbawm as existing between history and ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Die verhouding tussen trauma en magiese realisme in Op soek na generaal Mannetjies Mentz (1998) deur Christoffel Coetzee

Fourie, Reinhardt (LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe), 2014-07-08)

ENGLISH: The relationship between trauma and magical realism in Op soek na generaal Mannetjies Mentz by Christoffel Coetzee. This article investigates the relationship between trauma and magical realism in the Afrikaans ...

Synecdoche and Allegory in the filmic record of the memory of African Genocide in John Le Carré’s The Constant Gardener

Masemola, Kgomotso; Makoe, Pinky (Taylor & Francis, 2014-08)

This article shows that the filmic depiction of the death of Tessa Quayle, a social activist portrayed by Rachel Weisz, is a memorialised historical allegory of genocide caused by deliberate and lethal clinical trials ...

Musical Space as Site of Transculturation of Memory and Transformation of Consciousness: The re-affirmation of Africa in the Black Atlantic Assemblage

Masemola, Kgomotso; Makoe, Pinky (Taylor & Francis, 2014-03)

This article argues that the recent meteoric emergence of trends such as hip hop and other popular genres in South Africa is a simultaneous internationalization and indigenization of representational temporalities. The ...

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 ...

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