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Mushrooms have long occupied a highly ambivalent position in the cultural imagination,
inciting disgust and fear, as well as wonder and fascination. Neither plants, nor animals, they grow up unexpectedly but also in regular ...
How do scholars in countries such as Portugal, the US, the UK, or Scandinavia
situate feminist scholarship in the current academia? How is the claim to
scientificity in women’s, gender, and feminist studies (WGFS) produced ...
The search by South Africa for scarce skills that contribute to the economic development of the country attracted many people around the world, particularly Africa to migrate to this country for economic purposes. Among ...
Using a qualitative research approach, in-depth interviews were employed to explore the life circumstances of twelve elderly women living alone in the central areas of Pretoria, South Africa. The Pretoria central areas ...
Sonderling, Stefan(Communitas: Journal for Community Communication & Information Impact, 2014-11-30)
This article develops a Fanonian perspective to understand intercultural communication
in postcolonial South Africa. Apartheid’s demise is communicated as a
moral victory over evil and South African whites are persuaded ...
Ursula K. Le Guin’s renowned Earthsea cycle, spanning 20 years and five texts, is often acknowledged to be a textual space for the creative exploration and interrogation of gender. The two spaces in the title – ‘earth’ and ...
Considerable theoretical and critical work has been done on the way British and American women poets re-vision (Rich 1976) male-centred myth. Some South African women poets have also used similar strategies. My article ...
The Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is one of the most important writers to emerge from the African continent over the last two
decades. Although she has received widespread critical acclaim as well as academic scrutiny, ...
In the short story collection Why Don’t You Carve Other Animals (1992) the
Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera initiates her construction of alternative
historical narratives, particularly ones that are able to voice women’s ...
This article explores the representation of a lesbian relationship in a contemporary South African short story. I take an intersectional approach to the reading of lesbianism and consider how the race, gender and the ...
This article explores how intersections of gender, race and class shape the evaluation of women’s appearance in selected South African works of fiction. These texts include Pat Stamatélos’ Kroes (2005), E.K.M. Dido’s ʼn ...
This article explores the ways in which the South African author Antjie Krog
challenges imperial and patriarchal assumptions about bodies and landscapes in order
to enable an embodied engagement with the South African ...
Although most slaves’ experience of slavery is lost to posterity, in some cases
historians are fortunate enough to work with so-called slave narratives. The
existence of many criminal court cases enables the historian ...
This article analyses selected excerpts from the writing of Antjie Krog and
Yvonne Vera in order to theorise strategies for overcoming the disjuncture
between the mind and the body that tends to result from violence. ...
This article explores Yvette Christiansë’s (2006) representation of an act of infanticide by the character of Sila van den Kaap in
the novel Unconfessed. I will illustrate how the novel deconstructs idealised assumptions ...
Fiction as a genre not only tends to be disregarded as testimony, fiction and testimony are often seen as mutually exclusive. By using a Derridean model of testimony, I aim to break down the division between fiction and ...