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... African Farm Novels .” M.A. diss., University of South Africa. Barrow, John 1801 An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa (London: Cadell and Davies). Bethlehem, Louise Shabat 1998 “ Literary Historiographic Discourse under Apartheid: 1976–1985 .”Ph.D. diss., Tel Aviv...

...Leon de Kock This essay presents the argument for a model of postcoloniality that disavows the axiomatic determinations of oppositionality. It presents a case,in the history of nascent African nationalism in South Africa, in which subject formation by Africans under late colonialism was framed...

... -26 (New York: St. Martin's Press). Cobbs, Price M., and William H. Grier 1968 Black Rage (New York: Basic Books). Edgar, Robert R., ed. 1992 An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph Bunche, 28 September 1937–1 January 1938 (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University...

...Loren Kruger; Patricia Watson Shariff This article examines the ways comics contribute to nonformal education in contemporary South Africa, especially the Heart to Heart project,produced by the Storyteller Group, and Body and Soul , by the Soul City project. While Soul City follows the urban bias...

... and imperial imaginary, which generated a particular founding myth for the colonial state of the Union of South Africa in 1910 and which also lent to foreign visitors,tourists, and immigrants a readily understood interpretation of South Africa and the Cape as “Mediterranean” rather than as“African.” This essay...

...Pippa Skotnes The end of apartheid in South Africa initiated a period of intense analysis of historical and contemporary questions of identity. In the Cape, people who had been classified as “coloured” or “other coloured”began to reclaim their precolonial identities. This process has been made...

... genuinely local,thoroughly hybrid nature. Well in advance of the birth of the new South Africa in 1994, Breytenbach undermined racialist notions of Afrikaans (whether as some sort of Herderian Sprachgeist of the white Afrikaner Volk or as the language of the white oppressor) and offered ways of conceiving...

... and cultural disposi-tions initially derived from the nineteenth-century missionary enterprise in South Africa and(2) a means of strategically transforming this repertoire “from below,” in keeping with the current needs and interests of many black South Africans. Providing their readers with an efficient means...

... in Writing and Culture 3 (1–2): 130 -34. 1993 J. M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press; Cape Town, Johannesburg: David Philip). Barnett, Ursula A. 1983 A Vision of Order:A Study of Black South African Literature...

... and comparative literature at Dartmouth Col- lege and directs its Leslie Humanities Center. He has published three books and nu- merous articles on early modern literature and its cultural legacies. Leon de Kock is associate professor of English at the University of South Africa. He is the author...

... Dealing with the Past: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (Cape Town: IDASA). Braude, Claudia 1996 “The Archbishop, the Private Detective and the Angel of History: The Production of South African Public Memory and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Current Writing 8 (2): 39 -65...

... in Contemporary Theory , edited by Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell, 48 -65 (Manchester: Manchester University Press). 2004 The Singularity of Literature (London: Routledge). Attwell, David 1993 J. M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (Berkeley and Cape Town:University of California Press...

... the Holocaust (2002) documents patterns of memory revealed in the oral testimony of Holocaust survivors. His cur- rent research analyzes perpetrators of crimes in apartheid South Africa, drawing on the comprehensive disclosures of those applying for amnesty to South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation...

... Greenblatt and the New Historicism and on the cultural functionality of consumer magazines in South Africa and in Israel. She was coeditor, with Leon de Kock and Louise Bethle- hem, of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) award-winning special issue of Poetics Today (22, no. 2 [2001...

... of the Science in the Neo-Victorian Novel (2002) and Literatur interpretieren: Ein Analysetool (2013). Rebecca Fasselt is a lecturer at the University of Pretoria. Her PhD thesis focused on the portrayal of migrants from other parts of Africa in South African liter- ature published after 2000. She...

... of literature at BardCollege. He specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, and also works on the lite- rature of contemporary South Africa and southern Africa. His current book manuscript explores uncertainty as a phenomenon in the nineteenth-century British novel, understood...

...-­Colonial Africa in Colonial Afri- can Narratives (2008), and Islam, Ethics, Revolt (2008). He is co-­editor (with David P. Haney) of Levinas and Nineteenth-­Century Literature (2009), and has published essays on postcolonial topics, eighteenth-­century British literature, Shakespeare, Hardy...

..., and the experimental movements of Finland in the 1960s. Michela Piccin is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at North-West University, South Africa, where she also teaches Akkadian. Her research focuses on the stylistic-linguistic issues generally associated with the umbrella concept of rhetoric—hence her...

... as an embodied cultural trau- ma, ritual and spirituality; her most recent publications are concerned with ethical phenomenology and the Shoah. Her regional concentrations are Africa and the Middle East. She is also a performing arts practitioner, poet, and dance/movement therapist with clinical practices...

... “Screening the Future Faces of Rhetoric” (HAS, 2022), and “Future Shock or Future Chic? Future Human Skills in the Context of Technological Poliferation, in Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies: Robots, AI, and Everyday Life (2021). Larry Abramson (born 1954, South Africa...