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Little perpetrators, witness-bearers and the young and the brave: towards a post-transitional aesthetics
(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 ...
The everyday experience of xenophobia: performing The Crossing from Zimbabwe to South Africa
(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 ...
'A glimpse into Bushman mythology': interpretation, power and knowledge
(Routledge, 2017)
In 1873, Qing, a young man of Bushman background, recounted a cycle of stories and
commented on some of the rock paintings he and the magistrate Joseph Orpen saw on a
journey through the Maloti mountains. A year later ...
Oral literature in South Africa: 20 years on
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
I offer a retrospective on the field of orality and performance studies in South Africa from the perspective of 2016, assessing what has been achieved, what may have happened inadvertently or worryingly, what some of the ...
The pregnant man: race, difference and subjectivity in Alan Paton’s Kalahari writing
(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, ...
To Write Liberty
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The keynote for the International Conference, Writing for Liberty, held in Cape Town in 2017
is a response to the contradictory demands made on writers: to respond to the suffering in the
world and to refrain from ...
What lies beneath: exploring the deeper purposes of feedback on student writing through considering disciplinary knowledge and knowers
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Feedback plays an integral role in students’ learning and development, as it is often the only personal communication that students have with tutors or lecturers about their own work. Yet, in spite of its integral role in ...
Reading for hope: a conversation about texts and method
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
In a conversation about their shared interests, the authors discuss methodology, reading strategies, and comparative historiographies relating to the recuperation of residues of hope that linger in the wake of failed ...
“Then You Are a Man, My Son”: Kipling and the Zuma rape trial
(Duke University Press, 2016)
It is now a decade since Jacob Zuma, current president of South Africa, stood trial for rape, and while much writing has been generated about this trial, Judge Willem J. van der Merwe’s hypothetical supplement to Kipling’s ...
Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1990) in post-apartheid South Africa – a critical rereading
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Rereading Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die nearly thirty years after it was first published in 1990 proved to be a complex, rewarding experience. Setting her story of the lives of rural African women in KwaZulu-Natal ...