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Chapter 12 imagination and the eco-social crisis (or: why I write creative non-fiction)
(Brill, 2020)
Green Matters reflects on the ‘unique cultural function’ of literary texts with regard to
environmental and ecological concerns. Another way of putting this is to ask: what do
literary texts enable us to say or do in ...
(Con)texturing ideologies of modesty, authority, and childbearing in 1 Timothy 2:8–15
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)
Feminist and gender critical biblical scholarship hasshown how texts ideologically function as products of their ancient social and cultural norms. In my dissertation work on Pauline texts, through isolating ...
Streaming difference(s): Netflix and the branding of diversity
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
Since 2020, Netflix has emphasised the diversity of representation the platform provides through its content. Following the publication of its diversity report, the streamer positions itself as a driver of inclusion for ...
The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977
(SAGE Publications, 2023)
On 18 March 1949, Sita Gandhi, the eldest daughter of Manilal and Sushila Gandhi, responded to a request for information from Louis Fischer who was writing his biography of Mohandas Gandhi. The 21 years old had taken over ...
A “poor man’s pleasure”: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
What do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the ...
Performing the struggle against apartheid opposing apartheid on stage: King Kong the musical
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Tyler Fleming’s book provides an account of the first production of ‘King Kong’ — a musical theatre
production based on the life of the boxer Ezekiel Dlamini — in 1959. This musical rankled the
apartheid state partly ...
Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church
(AOSIS, 2023)
This article reflects on the impact of the inculturation of liturgy in the Ethiopian Episcopal
Church (EEC) on identity formation within the context of African Christianity. In the EEC, the
quest for African Christian ...