Southern African Literatures

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Southern African Literatures

Helize Van Vuuren¹•Institutions (1)

University of Port Elizabeth¹

01 Jun 1997-Journal of Literary Studies (Taylor & Francis Group)-Vol. 13, pp 190-209

About: This article is published in Journal of Literary Studies.The article was published on 1997-06-01. It has received 41 citations till now.

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Culture and customs of South Africa

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Funso S. Afọlayan

01 Jan 2004

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a series of acknowledgements and acknowledgements of the authors of this series.Series Forward Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Land and People History and Political Economy Religion and World View Literature The Media Art and Architecture Cuisine and Traditional Dress Gender Roles, Marriage, and Family Social Customs and Lifestyle Performing Arts and Cinema Glossary Bibliographical Essay Index

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Abstract: Series Forward Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Land and People History and Political Economy Religion and World View Literature The Media Art and Architecture Cuisine and Traditional Dress Gender Roles, Marriage, and Family Social Customs and Lifestyle Performing Arts and Cinema Glossary Bibliographical Essay Index

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61 citations

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‘Black atlantics’, ‘white Indians’ and ‘Jews’: Locations, locutions, and syncretic identities in the fiction of Achmat Dangor and others

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Loren Kruger¹•Institutions (1)

University of Chicago¹

01 Jan 2002-Scrutiny

TL;DR: The authors describe migration, diaspora, settlement and naming on and around the 'Cape of Storms' burst the bounds of apartheid racial classifications or, indeed, of anti-apartheid ¯¯categories.

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Abstract: Narratives of migration, diaspora, settlement and naming on and around the 'Cape of Storms' burst the bounds of apartheid racial classifications or, indeed, of anti-apartheid categories.

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27 citations

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The transformation of masculinity in contemporary black South African novels

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Nonhlanhla Dlamini

01 Mar 2016

TL;DR: In this paper, a thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements of degree of Doctor of Philosophy was presented.

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Abstract: A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements of degree of Doctor of Philosophy Johannesburg, 2015

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...For instance, Michael Chapman’s Southern African Literatures (2003) and Christopher Heywood’s A History of South African Literature (2004) do not include any of the above writers in their canonisation of works published by both black and white South African writers regardless of the fact that Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents (2000) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) have been published. Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) is the only contemporary novel that Heywood (2004) acknowledges in the compilation of literary works published in the present. Perhaps Chapman (2003) and Heywood (2004) did not have ample time to include the works of the writers studied in this...
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...For instance, Michael Chapman’s Southern African Literatures (2003) and Christopher Heywood’s A History of South African Literature (2004) do not include any of the above writers in their canonisation of works published by both black and white South African writers regardless of the fact that Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents (2000) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) have been published....
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...Perhaps Chapman (2003) and Heywood (2004) did not have ample time to include the works of the writers studied in this research work given that their books were published in 2003 and 2004....
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...Thandi jokingly points out that Lauren suffers from a type of psychosis, Electra complex, for in adulthood she poses and marries her father in the form of Michael, her abusive husband....
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...For instance, Michael Chapman’s Southern African Literatures (2003) and Christopher Heywood’s A History of South African Literature (2004) do not include any of the above writers in their canonisation of works published by both black and white South African writers regardless of the fact that Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents (2000) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) have been published. Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) is the only contemporary novel that Heywood (2004) acknowledges in the compilation of literary works published in the present....
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The heart of the city

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Ranka Primorac¹•Institutions (1)

Royal Holloway, University of London¹

01 Sep 2007-Scrutiny

TL;DR: In international debates about post-colonial writing, Zambian literature is largely invisible as mentioned in this paper, overshadowed (as Zambia is in several other regards) by the powerful regional pull of neighbouring South Africa.

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Abstract: In international debates about post-colonial writing, Zambian literature is largely invisible – overshadowed (as Zambia is in several other regards) by the powerful regional pull of neighbouring South Africa. Moreover, those critics who have written about Zambian texts from the national and regional perspective have tended to represent them as all-too-often aesthetically wanting (i.e. subordinated to journalistic discourses) and almost entirely consumed by the debate about the relative merits of ‘modernity’ versus ‘tradition’, usually imagined as the cultural contrast between the city and the country. This article seeks to bypass those trends. Its focus is a recent collection of short fictions edited by Zambian women, which takes both the complexity and the urban inflections of contemporary Zambian identities for granted. The stories’ combination of elements of women's romance narrative with the concept of African urban crisis produces the notion of a certain kind of slipperiness as a key compone...

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Translating the nation: Phaswane mpe and the fiction of post-apartheid

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Michael Green

01 Jan 2005-Scrutiny

TL;DR: The authors read a much-celebrated "post-apartheid" novel, the late Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow, against South Africa's complex and in many ways compromised multilingual language policy.

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Abstract: This paper attempts to read a much-celebrated “post-apartheid” novel, the late Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow, against South Africa's complex and in many ways compromised multilingual language policy. It uses the history of that policy (loaded as it is with the dominance of English and the problems associated with standardizing the African languages) as a material expression of the fraught nature of a non-exclusionary South African-ness, and investigates the novel's engagement with that history. In particular, it focuses on the non-“national” spin of post-apartheid politics, asking if the novel's fictional formulations in this regard are adequate to the issues it takes on. Central to the novel's approach is its sustained use of the second person for its mode of address. The paper relates this to the way in which the autobiographical elements of the novel speak through and to post-apartheid concerns with identity, xenophobia, language, and AIDS.

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Boiling energy : Community Healing among the Kalahari Kung

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Richard Katz

01 Jan 1982

TL;DR: Foreword by Richard B. Lee Acknowledgments Kung Who Speak in this Book 1. Starting Points 2. Kung Hunter-Gatherers 3. The Kung Approach to Healing 4. At a Healing Dance 5. Kinachau, a Traditional Healer 6. "The Death That Kills Us All"

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Abstract: Foreword by Richard B. Lee Acknowledgments Kung Who Speak in this Book 1. Starting Points 2. Kung Hunter-Gatherers 3. The Kung Approach to Healing 4. At a Healing Dance 5. Kinachau, a Traditional Healer 6. "The Death That Kills Us All" 7. Education for Healing 8. Career of the Healer 9. Female Perspectives 10. Toma Zho, a Healer in Transition 11. The Tradition of Sharing 12. Kau Dwa, a Strong Healer 13. Wa Na, a Healer among Healers 14. Psychological and Spiritual Growth 15. The Challenge of Change 16. A Final Meeting with Kinachau 17. "Tell Our Story to Your People" Orthography Glossary Bibliography Index

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The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass.

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Alan Barnard, Robert J. Gordon

01 Mar 1993

216 citations

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Boiling Energy: Community Healing Among the Kalahari Kung.

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Megan Biesele, Richard Katz

01 Dec 1984

178 citations

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Southern African literatures

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Michael Chapman

01 May 1996

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a chronology of the history of Southern Africa, focusing on the antecedents of South African literature, including African or colonial literature from the early 1800s to the early 1970s.

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Abstract: Author's Preface Introduction: Writing Literary History in Southern Africa. Part One: Oral Tradition: A Usable Past 1. Bushman (San) Songs and Stories 2. African (Bantu) Songs, Stories, Praises Part Two: Writing of European Settlement: South Africa 1652-1910 1. Images of Africa, 1652-1820 2. The Story of Frontier, 1820-1870 3. Anglicisation and the Afrikaans language Movements, 1875-1930 4. The Story of the Colony. Fiction, 1880- Part Three: African or Colonial Literature: 1880s to 1960s 1. The Colonial Past in the Independent State 2. Belonging and Belief in South Africa, 1910-1948 3. Belonging and Belief in South Africa, 1910-1948 4. Identity and the Apartheid State, 1958-1970 Part Four: Commissioned by the Nation, Commissioned by the Society, Independence, Post-Independence 1. Malawi and Zambia: The Writer in the One-party State 2. Anglola and Mozambique. National Ideals and Pragmatic Realities 3. Zimbabwe: The Unified Nation or the Functioning Society 4. Namibia: Making a Literature Part Five: Writing in the Interregnum. South Africa, 1970-1995 1. Black Consciousness and White Africans 2. The Black Theatre Model, Towards an Aesthetic of South African Theatre 3. The Story of Community: A Resilient Tradition 4. The Truth of Fiction and the Fiction of Truth: Writing Novels in the Interregnum 5. The State of Emergency, The New South Africa Part Six: Further References Chronology. General Bibliographies. Individual Authors - notes on biography, works and criticism. Index

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The Bushman myth : the making of a Namibian underclass

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Robert J. Gordon

01 Jan 1992

TL;DR: The history of the Bushmen can be found in this article, where the authors describe the introduction of the first Bushmen into the world system and their role in the creation of the United States.

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Abstract: * The Bushmen: A Merger of Fantasy and Nightmare Whats In A Name? * Locating the Bushmen * Bushman Copper and Autonomy * The Incorporation of Bushmen into the World System * Classifying Bushmen: Itinerant Scientists The Colonial Presence * The Imposition of the Colonial State * The Bushman Plague of 1911 * From Policy to Practice * Bushman Hunts and Bushman Gangs The Sacred Trust * South African Rapprochement * Laboring Legitimacy * Beyond the Police Zone: Disrupting the Labor Supply * Extending Administrative Control: Bushmen Reserved * Reaction and Counterreaction * Bushmen Tamed: Life on the Farm * Academics on the Attack: Ethnological Influence on Bushman Policy Bushmen Iconified * Creating Bushmanland: Anthropology Triumphant? * Bushmen Obscured: Farms, Parks, and Reserves * Bushmanland Fabricated * Denouement: Captives of the Image of Wild Bushmen Have We Met The Enemy And Is It Us? * On Vulnerability and Violence * The Culture of Terror and the Inevitability of Violence

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147 citations