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Queer studies and religion in Southern Africa: The production of queer Christian subjects
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
The question of how to write about queer Africa has been a significant debate in scholarship over the last decade. One of the key emerging areas, in the development of ‘queer Africa scholarship’ has been through the framing ...
Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
This article focuses on the controversy caused by the release of the film Inxeba (The Wound). Inxeba depicts a complex intersection of rites of passage, masculinities, queerness and the relationships between men in a ...
BECOMING-MINORITARIAN Constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The institutional history of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in some ways mirrors the paradoxes, ambiguities, absurdities, contradictions and possibilities – in short, the complexities – of the concept “coloured”. ...
In the heart of the country: The auto/biographies of Ayesha Dawood and Fatima Meer
(University of Cape Town, 2020)
South African struggle auto/biography has been a male-dominated
genre in which the political has correspondingly dominated the
personal. These life narratives have presented the formation of
relatively coherent, autonomous ...
Eros and Self-Realization: Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
(The Pennsylvania State University, 2020)
A comparative analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s Teir Eyes Were Watching
God and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru suggests the importance of romantic love to the self actualization of the heroines of these novels, whose authors share ...
Language ideology, policy and classroom practices in Oshiwambo speaking areas, Northern Namibia
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The study problematized language ideologies and policy to explore the efficacy of using English as the Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) among Oshiwambo speaking learners in the Omusati region of Northern ...
The four tasks of Christian ecotheology: Revisiting the current debate
(Stellenbosch University, 2020)
This contribution offers a description of the tasks of Christian ecotheology both
from a de facto and from a de iure perspective. It suggests that this entails both a
twofold critique and a twofold constructive task, ...
Church, narrative, community and identity in times of migration
(AOSIS, 2020)
Migration is perceived by many communities as a threat to national unity, social cohesion, nationality or common identity. This article is an attempt to address the following question: How does or should the church as a ...
Narrative and personhood: The quest for triad community development
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)
This article sets out a Christian theological anthropology for community development.
This critical engagement with traditional and doctrinal forms of Christian theological
anthropology will analyse two contrasting ...
The absurdity of reconciliation. What we (should) learn from Rustenburg and the implications for South Africa
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)
The quest for reconciliation in South Africa is an exercise in the absurd. To say it is an
exercise for the absurd might also have some merit. Like Sisyphus, the figure in Greek
mythology, those engaged in the quest for ...