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Research Outputs (Afrikaans and Theory of Literature): Recent submissions

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Magrita Prinslo (1896), Magdalena Retief (1938) and Mies Julie (2012): from historical Afrikaner Mothers of the Nation to a modern Afrikanermeisie (girl): a postcolonial reading of Farber’s Mies Julie

Keuris, Marisa (Taylor & Francis, 2019)
Migration theatre in South Africa with reference to Mike van Graan’s When swallows cry

Keuris, Marisa (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

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 – A Remembrance of Things Past and Present

Keuris, Marisa (2018)

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 ...
'n Huldiging Reza de Wet:die dramaturg as dromer

Keuris, Marisa (Protea Boekhuis, 2020)
‘Restitutions of Body and Soil’ in Mies Julie (2012): South African theatre audience receptions of Yaël Farber’s adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie within a post-apartheid South African political landscape

Keuris, Marisa (2016)

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, ...
Die veranderende wêreld van Afrikaanse dramavertalings en verwerkings: Enkele opmerkings

Keuris, Marisa (2020-03)

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 ...
Bollywood Cinema: A Transnational/Cultural Role

Keuris, Marisa; Ayob, Asma (2017)
’n Herbesoek aan NP van Wyk Louw se Die pluimsaad waai ver of Bitter begin: NP van Wyk Louw’s Die pluimsaad waai ver, of Bitter begin revisited

Keuris, Marisa (2020-06)

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 ...
A legal fallacy? Testing the ordinariness of 'ordinary meaning'

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 ...
Sign langauge and hate speech: The potential pitfalls of iconic signs

Carney, Terrence R (African Sun Media, 2019)

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 ...
Using prototype theory to determine the ordinary meaning of words

Carney, Terrence R; Bergh, Luna (LexisNexis, 2016-08)

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 ...
A Call to Revise Section 8(2)(e) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to Include Crisis Risk Communication

Carney, Terrence R; Mollema, Nina (Juta, 2019-07)

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 ...
Disposing of bodies, semantically: Notes on the meaning of 'disposal' in S v Molefe

Carney, Terrence R (Potchefstroom Electroniese Regsjoernaal, 2018)

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 ...
Ecological apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy

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 ...
Stranger in a strange land

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 ...
Strangers in Strange Worlds: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

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 ...
The archaeology of rock art and Western philosophy

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 ...
Schopenhauer and secular salvation in the work of J.M. Coetzee

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 ...
Elizabeth Costello as a Socratic figure

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, ...
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 ...

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