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 ...

As creative agents of knowledge production in the domain of humanities knowledge, South African writers such as Phaswane Mpe have the historical burden of participating in the transformation of knowledge in ways ...

My reading of JM. Coetzee’s Disgrace is informed by the deployment of the concept of exilic consciousness by postcolonial theorists, notably Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, and literary critic Julia Kristeva, to project an ...

This article aims to map the terrain of postcolonial theory from its Marxist origins, to a postmodern ‘totalizing’, and ‘hegemonic’ view of reading culture. One of the coordinates, that of continuities, reinforces notions ...

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 ...

This article examines a rethinking of the historic Marikana tragedy of 16 August 2012, as encoded in the eNCA documentary film The Marikana Massacre: Through the Lens. My approach is in the form of commentary on the act, ...

Black African women writers have been publishing for well over five decades. They have, through their works, attempted to lend agency to hitherto objectified female characters within male dominated literary discourse. In ...

The question of identity occupies a prominent place in the fiction of Unity Dow. This paper explores the problematic and fluid nature of identity in her first novel, Far and beyon’. Mosa's progression in behaviour throughout ...

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 aim of the article is to describe a pilot study designed to determine the extent to which contact interventions improve the academic proficiency of tertiary-level students in a distance education institution. A group ...