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Smoking around the campfire: A San encounter with the colonial
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
In 1873 Joseph Orpen, resident of Nomansland, engaged a San1 man Qing to guide a combined force of levies and mounted police through the Maloti mountains in present-day Lesotho where they hoped to intercept a group of ...
I am/am I an African? A relational reading of 'Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction' by J.U. Jacobs
(AOSIS, 2017)
The publication of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction (2016) by J.U. Jacobs is a timely
intervention, in that it is the first comprehensive study of South African fiction to sustain the
argument that South ...
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 ...
Wilhelm Bleek and the Khoisan imagination: a study of censorship, genocide and colonial science
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012)
In 1864, Wilhelm Bleek published a collection of Khoi narratives titled Reynard the Fox in South
Africa, or Hottentot Fables and Tales. This article critically examines this foundational event in
South African literary ...
Attending to the affective: exploring first year students’ emotional experiences at university
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)
This study engaged students at the affective level in order to acquire a better understanding of their emotional experiences at university with the ultimate aim of improving teaching and learning. A qualitative research ...
Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)
Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the
importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies
to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ...
Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century
travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the
21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It ...