Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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Representations of revolutionary violence in recent Indian and South African fiction
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Several recent novels in English by Indian and South African authors explore the theme of violent political resistance to the entrenched injustices of the hierarchical Indian social order and South Africa’s institutionalised ... -
Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?
(Cogent OA, 2018)This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from East Africa. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the ... -
Reflections on the passing of Prof Bongani Mayosi: Universities and the burden of history
(SUN journals, 2018)Our heartfelt condolences to the family of Prof Bongani Mayosi. We begin by acknowledging that the condition of depression stalks societies, it silently chips away at the soul and identity of an individual. And, when tragedy ... -
Praying for rain? Reformed perspectives from the Southern African context
(Wiley, 2017)This contribution addresses the question raised in this volume whether praying for rain is an appropriate response to the impact of climate change from a Southern African perspective. It commences with a missionary story ... -
Travelling home: Diasporic dis-locations of space and place in Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician
(SAGE Publications, 2018)The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician, a novel by Zimbabwean diasporic writer Tendai Huchu, adds to a growing body of global immigrant fiction. Huchu’s novel concerning Zimbabwean émigrés in the United Kingdom ... -
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 ... -
Fanon in drag: Decoloniality in sociolinguistics?
(Wiley, 2017)In focus in this paper is the genre of drag, and the uses to which it is put by its proponents in subverting conventional and repressive (Western) models of gender, sexuality and race. We raise the question of to what ... -
Bark, smoke and pray: multilingual Rastafarian-herb sellers in a busy subway
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This paper is an analysis of how multilingual Rastafarian-herbalists organize multilingual and multimodal interactions in a subway. The rationale has been to understand the practice of multilingual repertoires by multilingual ... -
Nationalism and exile in an age of solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU relations in Mozambique (1975–1980)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article contributes to our knowledge on the intricate relations between host governments and liberation movements and on the workings of transnational military partnerships in the anticolonial struggles of the 1970s, ... -
The polygynous household in Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives: a haven in a heartless world
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)Despite Lola Shoneyin’s public condemnation of the impediments to female autonomy, equality, freedom, dignity, and self-realisation inherent in polygamy, the polyvalent nature of her contemporary Nigerian novel, The Secret ... -
The path which goes beyond: Danger on Peaks responds to suffering
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Now well into his eighties, Gary Snyder continues to pursue lifetime habits of engagement and detachment in which the activities of literary work, spiritual practice, environmental activism, and family life are mutually ... -
Debates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990s
(UNISA Press, 2018)Memory politics are often regarded as the “soft” issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by ... -
Feminist activist archives: Towards a living history of the Gender Education Training Network (GETNET)
(UNISA Press, 2018)This article engages the dilemmas and challenges of writing histories of the recent past, and of the political agendas of intervening in those histories in the present. This is done through producing an archive of documentation ... -
Memory, oral history and conservation at Robben Island's Bluestone Quarry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article is a critical examination of a conservation project on the restoration of the Stone Wall at Bluestone Quarry on Robben Island, a world heritage site. The project attracted different stakeholders with diverse ... -
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 ... -
Book review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2017), Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
(German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, 2017)Nyamnjoh’s insightful book offers an original, nuanced, and penetrative interpretation of the late Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, whose true value and influence were mainly recognised only after his demise. According ... -
Spaces of exception: southern multilingualisms as resource and risk
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)In this paper we draw attention to people who journey from one temporal and spatial setting towards another in the ‘South’, who aspire to a reconfigured sense of belonging, prosperity and wellbeing, and their multilinguality ... -
Diversities, affinities and diasporas: a southern lens and methodology for understanding multilingualisms
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)We frame multilingualisms through a growing interest in a linguistics and sociology of the ‘south’ and acknowledge earlier contributions of linguists in Africa, the Américas and Asia who have engaged with human mobility, ... -
On social evil and natural evil: in conversation with Christopher Southgate
(Wiley, 2018)In this contribution, the author engages in a conversation with Christopher Southgate on the relationship between social evil and what is called natural “evil.” Theologically, this centers around an understanding of creation ... -
What hope is there – for Klaus?
(AOSIS, 2018)This contribution engages with Klaus Nürnberger’s eschatology as expressed in his Invitation to Systematic Theology. It suggests that his notion of Christian hope has to be understood in terms of the triad of core concepts ...