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"Where the mask ends and the face begins is not certain": Mediating ethnicity and cheating geography in Jonny Steinberg's Little Liberia
(Routledge, 2013)
Mixing historical commentary, reportage, biography and personal stories, South
African writer Jonny Steinberg takes up the tale of a fractured African nation and its
diaspora in Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New ...
Students’ navigation of the uncharted territories of academic writing
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Many students enter tertiary education unfamiliar with the ‘norms and conventions’ of
their disciplines. Research into academic literacies has shown that in order to succeed
in their studies, students are expected to ...
Introducing e-learning in a South African Higher Education institution: challenges arising from an intervention and possible responses
(Blackwell, 2013)
This article draws on research conducted at a tertiary institution in South Africa as part
of the redesigning of an English for Educational Development (EED) course to include an
e-learning online discussion component. ...
Repeating and disrupting embodied histories through performance: Exhibit A Mies Julie and Itsoseng
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
The concern about South African arts being - as Achille Mbembe claims - ‘stuck in repetition’
can be challenged by examining developments in the performance arts which deliberately
employ repetition. In these cases ...
Witness to the makeshift shore: Ecological practice in A Littoral Zone
(UKZN, 2013)
This essay suggests that Douglas Livingstone's long poem 'A Littoral Zone'
(1991), an explicit conversation between his work as an environmental
scientist and his work as a poet, makes for a poetic statement that is, ...
The muslim "who has faith" in Leila Aboulela's novels Minaret (2005) and Lyrics Alley (2009)
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This essay analyses Leila Aboulela's narrative techniques when depicting a Muslim “who has faith” in her two most recent novels. In Minaret she presents religion as a source of strength for her female narrator-protagonist ...
The importance of confronting a colonial, patriarchal and racist past in addressing post-apartheid sexual violence
(UNISA, 2013)
This commentary uses Judge Willem van der Merwe’s rescripting of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ poem during the Jacob Zuma rape trial as a starting point to argue for the importance of understanding the ways in which spectres of ...