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Masculinity, matrimony and generation: Reconfiguring patriarchy in Drum 1951-1983
(Routledge, 2008)
In this article I discuss some of the ways in which Drum tended to ascribe ‘modernity’ to particular practices and processes in opposition to other practices and processes portrayed as ‘traditional’. In mid-twentieth-century ...
Converting the card catalogue of the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus, into a machine-readable format
(Ashgate Publishing, 2008)
In 2006 the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), Cape Town Campus, began a project to convert its substantial card catalogue to machine-readable form. The article gives an overview of the Library's collections and ...
Im Gespräch mit Jose F.A. Oliver - 'viel-stimmig und meer-sprachig'.
(Peter Lang, 2008)
José Oliver is a multilingual poet of Andalusian descent who writes poetry in German. His first poetry was published in the mid-eighties and his writings were seen as part of migrant literature (also referred to in the ...
Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant
(Springer, 2008)
This paper will reflect on research currently in progress in Cape Town's De Waterkant neighbourhood—an area also known as Cape Town's 'gay village'. This paper engages the literature of utopia as a framework of analysis ...
“Modern prophets, produce a new bible”: Christianity, Africanness and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho
(Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2008)
In this article I consider how one might approach the apparently singular figure of Nontsizi
Mgqwetho, a Xhosa woman who produced an extraordinary series of Christian izibongo
in newspapers in the 1920s: through what ...
Service learning in a course in children's & youth library & information services: a case study
(Community High Education Service Partnership, 2008)
The case study describes a service learning project in Library and Information
Science. In 2002, 14 students enrolled for the service learning elective – the 4th year
second semester module, Children’s and Youth Library ...
The taint of the censor: J.M. Coetzee and the making of In the Heart of the Country
(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 2008)
With the publication of In the Heart of the Country by the London publisher Secker & Warburg in 1977, J. M. Coetzee had achieved international recognition for his second novel, transcending the narrow national literary ...
'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)
This paper explores how two testifiers at the Human Rights Violation hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 used selected markers of evaluation (shifts in tense, the inclusion of direct ...
Pregnant girls and young parents in South African schools
(UNISA Press, 2008)
Since the promulgation of the South African Schools Act in 1 996, it has become illegal to exclude pregnant girls from school. Influenced by feminist research, policy has sought to assist pregnant girls and young parents ...
Editorial: reflections on men, masculinities and meaning in South Africa
(Psychology in Society, 2008)
This special issue embodies a contribution to what we consider to be a critical academic and political debate on the contours and expressions of masculinities in South Africa and how these intersect with the lived realities ...