Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Flockemann, Miki"
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After thought: Why not a prism?
Flockemann, Miki (University of the Western Cape, 2019)This special issue of Multilingual Margins is an excellent example of how the guiding concepts of a project are put into practice. The framing of the Re-imagining Multilingualisms project is presented here in what can ... -
Complicit refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa
Flockemann, Miki (Common Ground, 2008)In the aftermath of the brutal xenophobic attacks in parts of South Africa against 'other' Africans between March and May this year, a fairly sustained (if repetitive) public debate has emerged in the local press. The aim ... -
“Connecting Mind to Pen, to Eyes, to Face, to Arms and Legs”: Toward a Performative and Decolonial Teaching Practice
Flockemann, Miki (Cambridge University Press, 2020)The push to sustain online learning platforms that have been established in the wake of Covid-19 at South African universities raises a number of concerns. Apart from highlighting the stark and ongoing social inequities ... -
The everyday experience of xenophobia: performing The Crossing from Zimbabwe to South Africa
Flockemann, Miki; Ngara, Kudzayi; Roberts, Wahseema; Castle, Andrea (RoutledgeUNISA Press, 2010)Debates on the underlying causes of xenophobia in South Africa have proliferated since the attacks -between March and May 2008. Our article shows how exploring the everyday 'ordinariness' of xenophobia as performance can ... -
Facing the stranger in the mirror: Staged complicities in recent South African performances
Flockemann, Miki (Routledge, 2011)The staging of complicity has developed into one of the most prevalent trends in recent South Africa theatre. The audience may become aware of their own complicity in injustice, or complicity may feature as a subject to ... -
I am/am I an African? A relational reading of 'Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction' by J.U. Jacobs
Flockemann, Miki (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 ... -
Little perpetrators, witness-bearers and the young and the brave: towards a post-transitional aesthetics
Flockemann, Miki (Taylor & Francis, 2010)The aesthetic choices characterizing work produced during the transition to democracy have been well documented. We are currently well into the second decade after the 1994 election - what then of the period referred to ... -
Repeating and disrupting embodied histories through performance: Exhibit A Mies Julie and Itsoseng
Flockemann, Miki (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 ...