Search

Search results for

1. 

   Case pending: practices of inclusion and exclusion in a class of plaintiffs

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rita Kesselring --- Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland

   Apartheid victims have had a difficult standing in South Africa in the years that followed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In the government's perspective, the TRC had conclusively dealt with apartheid victimhood. Consequently, when victims turned to US courts...

   View item »
2. 

   ‘A Fiction to Mock the Cuckold’: Reinvigorating the Cliché Figure of the Cuckold in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Gravel Heart (2017)

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Sean James Bosman --- , South Africa

   This article argues that Abdulrazak Gurnah reinvigorates the cliché figure of the cuckold into a complex narrative device. His cuckolds serve as nexuses through which he expresses some of his authorial concerns in By the Sea (2001) and Gravel Heart...

   View item »
3. 

   Space, Time and the Ethics of Graphic Wit(h)nessing: Rupert Bazambanza’s Smile through the Tears

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Nick Mdika Tembo --- , South Africa

   This article proposes a reading, through the lens of Bracha Ettinger’s theoretical notion of ‘wit(h)nessing,’ of Rupert Bazambanza’s Smile through the Tears as a graphic memoir that draws on the Rwandan historical archive to bear witness to the trauma of...

   View item »