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Are Trout South African? Or: A Postcolonial Fish
There has been substantial attention paid in literary and postcolonial studies to issues of environment and ecology, and especially the environmental transformations which colonial and imperial histories have wrought upon the (post)colony.
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Genres of Critique
This project seeks to open and explore a liminal space for critique between aesthetics and politics.
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Lift Stories: The intimate publics of elevators in 20th century Johannesburg
This project thinks through the space of the lift as urban affective infrastructure in Johannesburg over the 20th century.
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Apartheid Remains
Chari, Sharad. 2024. Apartheid Remains. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/apartheid-remains
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Inhospitable Places: Feminist Thinking on Whiteness, Men, and Various Kinds of Women in South African contexts
Inhospitable Places is a feminist project that works with thinking about race, gender and class in contemporary South African contexts.
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The coloniality and necropolitics of nuclear sacrifice zones: The case of South Africa’s nuclear waste disposal site, Vaalputs
A key feature of the Anthropocene is the production of nuclear waste.
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A Research Itinerary from Fieldwork to Archives: Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Music, ‘Identities,’ Politics
Martin, Denis-Constant. 2021. A Research Itinerary from Fieldwork to Archives: Cape Town (South Africa), Festivals, Music, ‘Identities,’ Pol...
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Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg
Murray, Martin J. 2020. Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/titl...
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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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‘Beyond 2000: South African Literature Today’
Michael Chapman (guest editor). 2009. ‘Beyond 2000: South African Literature Today’. Current Writing (Special Issue)
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The Case of Coetzee: South African Literary Criticism 1990 to Today
Michael Chapman. 2009. The Case of Coetzee: South African Literary Criticism 1990 to Today. Journal of Literary Studies 25
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Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Native, Natural, Indigenous, Indigenised? Trout in the Postcolony. Critical African Studies 8(2):179–95. http://dx.doi....
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STIAS Series Volume 1: The Humanist Imperative in South Africa
The Humanist Imperative in South Africa John de Gruchy (Editor) SUN PRESS (2011, 200 pp) ISBN: 978-1-920338-56-5 https://doi.org/10.18820/9...
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In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Culture and the Politics of Appropriation
This project, a prospective monograph entitled In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Cultural Production and the Politics of Appropriation, seeks to examine the growing awareness of the politics of representation and ethics of appropriation in contemporary culture, especially in relation to depictions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
