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''Passing'' in die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuur: 'n vergelykende ondersoek
(Alv-Tydskriffonds, 2007)This article examines how the phenomenon of passing, or playing white, is portrayed in selected South African texts. The findings of two studies conducted in the Cape Town area highlight the particular historical circumstances ... -
Accidental feminists? Recent histories of South African women
(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2007)This article reviews Helen Scanlon's book, "Representation and reality", and Nombonisa Gasa's "Women in South African history", and locates each against the historiography of South African women's history -
Apartheid's university: Notes on the renewal of the Enlightenment
(CODESRIA, 2007)This paper sets to work on strategies for forging new and critical humanities at the institutional site of the university that appears to be trapped in the legacies of apartheid. The paper suggests that the university's ... -
The conundrum of school libraries in South Africa
(Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2007)Introduction: The first democratic elections in 1994, leading to the end of apartheid education, new educational legislation and a new curriculum, brought fresh optimism to South African school library circles. This was ... -
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 ... -
Nagjakkals, Hendrik Januarie
(University of Pretoria, 2008)Hendrik Januarie se debuutbundel Pro rata wat in 1989 by Perskor verskyn het, gee reeds 'n aanduiding van hierdie digter se vermoë om indrukke - onder andere van die natuur, landskappe, vergankliklikheid en die sikliese ... -
S.V. Petersen se tydskrifverhale: 'n joernaal vir die geesteswetenskappe
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)S.V. Petersen (1914-1987) is bekend vir sy poësie en word beskou as die eerste swart Afrikaanse digter. Sy skryfloopbaan het begin met 'n aantal kortverhale en sketse wat gepubliseer is in joernale en tydskrifte. Hierdie ... -
Complicit refugees, cosmopolitans and xenophobia: Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner' and Romesh Gunesekera's 'Reef' in conversation with texts on xenophobia in South Africa
(Common Ground, 2008)In the aftermath of the brutal xenophobic attacks in parts of South Africa against 'other' Africans between March and May this year, a fairly sustained (if repetitive) public debate has emerged in the local press. The aim ... -
When was South African history ever postcolonial?
(History Department, UWC, 2008)In this article I argue that what enabled affiliation to the larger political project against apartheid was precisely the production of a subject that was always, and necessarily, threaded through a structure of racial ... -
'This thing called reconciliation…' Forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)Regular reference is made, within the discourse around the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the fact that ubuntu, an indigenous world view, played a role in the process. This paper tries to show that ... -
The earth in God’s economy: Reflections on the narrative of God’s work
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)This essay is an abbreviated version of an inaugural lecture, read on 24 October 2007 at the University of the Western Cape. It investigates the role of cosmological narratives that help people to understand where they ...
