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The Amateur
Majumdar, Saikat. 2024. The Amateur (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/amateur-9781501399879/
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Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2024. Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy. African Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0002...
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The interface between South African publishing, authors, the academy, and anglophone publishing elsewhere in Africa: a personal retrospective
Surprisingly little is known about how the South African publishing industry has operated over the past 35 politically tumultuous years.
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Reframing the Black Atlantic
Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Reframing the Black Atlantic. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898
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Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures
Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 316–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/...
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Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature
Simpson, David. 2022. Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?i...
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Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M Wright
Phiri, Aretha and Michelle M. Wright. 2023. Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright. C...
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Transforming trash to treasure Cultural ambiguity in foetal cell research
Wiszmeg, Andréa, Susanne Lundin, Åsa Mäkitalo, Håkan Widner and Kristofer Hansson. 2021. Transforming trash to treasure Cultural ambiguity i...
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Ambivalence in the stand-up acts of Nigeria’s Klint da Drunk and Mr Paul
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2022. Ambivalence in the stand-up acts of Nigeria’s Klint da Drunk and Mr Paul. Journal of the African Literature Association...
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Yabbing and Wording: The Artistry of Nigerian Stand-up Comedy
Nwankwọ, Izuu. 2021. Yabbing and Wording: The Artistry of Nigerian Stand-up Comedy. Makhanda, South Africa: NISC Press/African Humanities As...
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Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Nyambi, Oliver, Tendai Mangena and Gibson Ncube. (Eds.). 2021. Cultures of Change in Contemporary Zimbabwe. Routledge. https://www.routledge...
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Response
Phiri, Aretha. 2021. Response. Interventions, 23(1), 170–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1843518
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Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature
Brown, Duncan. 2020. Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press. https://books.google.co.za...
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Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen
Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen....
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The Story of an Anthology: “Conjunctures in a Disjunctive Society?”
Chapman, Michael. 2019. The Story of an Anthology: “Conjunctures in a Disjunctive Society?” Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern ...
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Postcolonial Studies: A Spiritual Turn
Michael Chapman. 2008. Postcolonial Studies: A Spiritual Turn. Current Writing 20, pp. 67-76
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Reimagining South African Literature
Duncan Brown. 2014. Reimagining South African Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies, 40 (5), 1109-1123
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Haunted by Waters
Brown, Duncan. 2015. Haunted by Waters. In Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa, edited by Imraan Coovadia, Cóilín Parsons and Alexa...
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Mediating the ‘Sacredness’ of Religion, Culture and Law in Contexts of Sexual Violence
Nadar, Sarojini and Elisabeth Gerle. 2016. Mediating the ‘Sacredness’ of Religion, Culture and Law in Contexts of Sexual Violence. Agenda 30...
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Oral Literature in South Africa: 20 Years On
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Oral Literature in South Africa: 20 Years On. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 28(2):108–18. http...
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Reimagining the “literary” in South African Literary Studies
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Reimagining the “literary” in South African Literary Studies. English in Africa 43(3):141. http://www.ajol.info/index.p...
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Cape Town Harmonies,Memory, Humour & Resilience
Gaulier, Armelle and Denis-Constant Martin. 2017. Cape Town Harmonies,Memory, Humour & Resilience. Cape Town: African Minds. http://www.afri...
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Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 2017. Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds. Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG. http://langaa-rpci...
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The Aesthetics of Violence
Appelbaum, Robert. 2017. The Aesthetics of Violence. Art, Fiction, Drama and Film. Rowman & Littlefield International. http://www.rowmaninte...
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Incongruous liaisons: Routes of humour, insult and political (in)correctness in Nigerian stand-up jokes
Nwankwọ E., Izuu. 2019. Incongruous liaisons: Routes of humour, insult and political (in)correctness in Nigerian stand-up jokes. European Jo...
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STIAS Series Volume 12: Changing Our Worlds: Art as Transformative Practice
Changing Our Worlds: Art as Transformative Practice Michelle LeBaron & Janis Sarra (Editors) SUN PRESS (2018, 196 pp) ISBN: 978-1-92835...
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Reading black middle-classness
For this project I am reading the burgeoning publication of essays that tackle black middle-classness and related aspects such as masculinities, femininities and race - indeed, intersections of these.
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Rethinking South African Literature(s)
This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project, located in the Faculty of Arts at UWC, which seeks to rethink the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the field of South African literatures, almost three decades after the legislated ending of apartheid, and just over two decades after Michael Chapman’s landmark study, Southern African Literatures (1996), arguably the first (and last) study to engage thoroughly with literatures in all languages in the region.
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The Zulus of New York/The Madonna of Excelsior Script
In 1880 William Leonard Hunt, known as The Great Farini after his trapeze act with a troupe called The Flying Farinis, a well-known Canadian funambulist and impresario, imported a group of Zulus to England and later to the United States to perform as part of the human curiosities or freak shows in his popular circus.
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Dog-human correlations in post-Soviet and post-apartheid literature and film
My research project falls into the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies and deals with the discursive formation of human-dog correlation in socio-political discourse.
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The Theory and Practice of Social Transformation through the Arts (Being Human Today theme)
The world over and across time, the arts remain vitally important in fostering resilience and creating channels for reconciliation after conflict.
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Cape Town’s Creole Songs, Nederlandsliedjies and moppies
Following up on the publication of Sounding the Cape, Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa ( African Minds, Somerset West, 2013) researched and published with support by STIAS, this project will focus on two song repertoires emblematic of Cape Town’s music: the Moppies (or comic songs) and the Nederlandslierdjies.