Browsing Faculty of Arts by Title

"Harlekijns in den bonten stoet"? 'n Herbesoek aan die vroee komiese poesie in Afrikaans

Van Zyl, Wium (SAVN, 2013)

“Harlequins in a pied parade”? A revisit to early comic poetry in Afrikaans Some South African newspapers and individuals considered the so-called “Patriot movement” or First Afrikaans Language Movement’s efforts to ...

Healing waters: Balneological classification of thermal springs in South Africa

Boekstein, Mark (2014)

The scientific study of the medicinal effects of thermal waters is known as balneology, or balneotherapy when applied in a medical context. In this literature-based article, the need for an up-to-date balneological ...

How school libraries improve literacy: some evidence from the trenches

Hart, Genevieve (Unisa Press, 2013)

The article comes out of a panel discussion, featuring five teacher-librarians, which was broadcast to schools across the Western Cape Province of South Africa in 2011. Four of the panelists are graduates of the University ...

'... a huge monster that should be feared and not done': Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa

Shefer, Tamara; Kruger, Lou-Marie; Macleod, Catriona; Baxen, Jean; Vincent, Louise (UNISA, 2015)

Research has foregrounded the way in which heterosexual practices for many young people are not infrequently bound up with violence and unequal transactional power relations. The Life Orientation sexuality education ...

'I act this way because why?' Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinities

Clowes, Lindsay (Scandinavian University Press, 2015)

This article begins by outlining some of the prior knowledges brought by undergraduate students to an introduction to gender studies class in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western ...

“I Am Human Too!” ‘probeerruimte’ as liminal spaces in search of recognition

Budge, MacLeod; Wels, Harry (Cogitatio, 2016)

This paper explores the Dutch concept ‘probeerruimte’ in relation to the statement ‘human as a contested concept’, a highly relevant topic in disability studies. Probeerruimte encompasses the idea that people need space ...

I am/am I an African? A relational reading of 'Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction' by J.U. Jacobs

Flockemann, Miki (AOSIS, 2017)

The publication of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction (2016) by J.U. Jacobs is a timely intervention, in that it is the first comprehensive study of South African fiction to sustain the argument that South ...

Identiteit en seksualiteit in die debuutromans van Kirby van der Merwe en Clark Accord

van Wyk, Steward (Alv-Tydskriffonds, 2003)

This article analyses the debut novels of the Afrikaans writer Kirby van der Merwe and the Surinamese writer Clark Accord. It focuses on the representation of identity and sexuality to posit an image of the individual ...

Ideology, policy and implementation: Comparative perspectives from two African universities

Dyers, Charlyn; Abongdia, Jane-Francis (Stellenbosch University, 2014)

This paper provides an exposition and interpretation of the language policies of two African universities, namely the University of Yaound in Cameroon and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. It does so ...

Im Gespräch mit Jose F.A. Oliver - 'viel-stimmig und meer-sprachig'.

van Ryneveld, Hannelore (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 ...

Imagining nation, state, and order in the mid-twentieth century

Irwin, Ryan M. (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This essay considers the relationship between the United Nations and the Third World. Using the apartheid debate as a framing device, it explores Indian and African nationalism in the mid-1940s and early 1960s. In focusing ...

The importance of confronting a colonial, patriarchal and racist past in addressing post-apartheid sexual violence

Graham, Lucy Valerie (UNISA, 2013)

This commentary uses Judge Willem van der Merwe’s rescripting of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ poem during the Jacob Zuma rape trial as a starting point to argue for the importance of understanding the ways in which spectres of ...

In die netwerk van nadenke oor die omgewing

Conradie, Ernst (AOSIS, 2014)

In the network of thinking about the environment. This contribution is based on a talk delivered at a conference for continuous education for pastors. The argument commences with reflections on thinking with one's hands, ...

Incomplete histories: Steve Biko, the politics of self-writing and the apparatus of reading

Lalu, Premesh (Southern African Literature and Culture Centre, UKZN, 2004)

This paper gathers together deliberations surrounding Steve Biko’s I Write What I Like as it simultaneously registers the critical importance of the text as an incomplete history. Rather than presupposing the text as a ...

The information landscape: political democracy versus epistemic games with specific reference to South African communities

Witbooi, Sally (University of Free State, 2004)

The South African government and proffessions are taking stock of the transforamtion of the last decade. Manucipalities still face serious problems such as urbun populattion growth, poverty, housing shortages environmental ...

Information literacy education in the South African Classroom: Reflections from teachers' Journals in the Western Cape province

Zinn, Sandy; Stilwell, Christine; Hoskins, Ruth (De Gruyter, 2016)

This qualitative study reports on teachers in the Western Cape as they attempt to embed information literacy in their classrooms. It explores how teachers come to understand information literacy and the extent to which ...