Browsing by Subject "Difference"
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A comparative reading of Elleke Boehmer’s Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins’ The Boy in the River: different attitudes towards the possibility of cultural ‘mixedness’
(Routledge, 2016)This article examines two contemporary texts that present different attitudes towards cultural diversity in Britain: Elleke Boehmer’s novel Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins’ memoir The Boy in the River. Boehmer, who is an ... -
Derrida's 'The Purveyor of Truth' and constitutional reading
(Springer, 2008)In this article the author explores Jacques Derrida’s reading in ‘The Purveyor of Truth’ of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’. In his essay, Derrida proposes a reading which differs markedly from the interpretation ... -
Designing the project: theoretical approaches
(HSRC Press, 2012)Education in South Africa is in crisis. Low literacy and numeracy rates, poor discipline, and a sense of despair pervade the education landscape. At the same time, educators are called upon to achieve more, with universities ... -
Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation ... -
Travelling into the other’s world: South African pre-service teacher education students’ construction of difference, belonging and identity
(Education Faculty, Stellenbosch Library, 2018)Against the backdrop of continuing racism ‒ both overt and subtle – in South Africa’s classrooms, this article describes one lecturer’s attempt at facilitating conversations around race relations in South Africa with nine ... -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Routledge, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive ... -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ...