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    • Alan Paton’s sublime: race, landscape and the transcendence of the liberal imagination 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (University of KwaZulu Natal, 2005)
      This article develops a postcolonial reading of the sublime by suggesting that aesthetic theories of the sublime were, in their classical philosophical formulations by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, founded on problematic ...
    • Alan Paton’s writing for the stage: towards a non-racial South African theatre 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2007)
      Introduction: It would not be an exaggeration to assert that no South African playwright in the 1950s and 1960s received as much international attention and recognition as Alan Paton, until eclipsed by Athol Fugard’s ...
    • Between text and stage: the theatrical adaptations of J.M. Coetzee’s Foe 

      Naidoo, Kareesha; Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      Several of J.M. Coetzee’s novels have been adapted successfully for the stage, both as theatrical and operatic versions, but these adaptations have not received much critical attention. This article examines the ways in ...
    • The Boer and the jackal: Satire and resistance in Khoi orature 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      Bushman narratives have been the subject of a large volume of scholarly and popular studies, particularly publications that have engaged with the Bleek and Lloyd archive. Khoi story-telling has attracted much less attention. ...
    • Late style in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)
      J.M. Coetzee’s post-millennial writing has been marked by new forms of inventiveness, formal risk-taking and narrative experimentation that have blurred the boundaries between fiction, autobiography and social commentary. ...
    • Notes towards a history of Khoi literature 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis, 2011)
      This article puts forward a revisionist history of Khoi literature, and also presents a number of translated Khoi narratives that have not been available in English before. Compared to the large volume of Bushman literature ...
    • The pregnant man: race, difference and subjectivity in Alan Paton’s Kalahari writing 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis, co-published with Unisa Press, 2010)
      In South African imaginative writing and scholarly research, there is currently an extensive and wide-ranging interest in the ‘Bushman’, either as a tragic figure of colonial history, as a contested site of misrepresentation, ...
    • Race, resistance and translation: the case of John Buchan’s UPrester John 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2011)
      In postcolonial translation studies, increasing attention is being given to the asymmetrical relationships between dominant and indigenous languages. This paper argues that John Francis Cele’s UPrester John (1958), is not ...
    • The taint of the censor: J.M. Coetzee and the making of In the Heart of the Country 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (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 ...
    • Towards an archaeology of Dusklands 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2011)
      This essay seeks to explore the question of origins: the beginnings of the literary career of arguably South Africa's most significant author, and the development of a form of authorship that was, at its inception, situated ...
    • Wilhelm Bleek and the Khoisan imagination: a study of censorship, genocide and colonial science 

      Wittenberg, Hermann (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 ...