Recently added articles from Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa:
Sisters and spirits: the postcolonial Gothic in Angelina N Sithebe's Holy Hill.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [A]s the great globalising project of modernity, which has its own controlling relationship to the postcolonial, rolls on, one of its more curious current effects is that, perhaps against expectations, we live increasingly in a world of ghosts, spirits, phantoms. (David Punter 2000: 61) ...
Introduction.
Jul 01, 2008; ... This Special Issue emerges out of an interdisciplinary research project on "Religion and Spirituality in a Postcolonial Context" run jointly by the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University. The project began in 2006, and is ...
E'skia Mphahlele: 1919-2008.(Obituary)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] E'skia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele died on 27 October at his home in Limpopo province, South Africa. Tributes have been deservedly forthcoming: he is described as the grand old man of African literature; as the father of modern black South African writing. Of the ...
Religion and the interpretation of the /Xam narratives.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... /Xam Religion The Bushman convicts are recorded in the Breakwater prison records as having no religion. People of the bush, almost wild animals, they were thought incapable of it. Wilhelm Bleek, the initiator of the project that resulted in the celebrated Bleek and Lloyd ...
Strategic Nostalgia, Islam and cultural translation in Leila Aboulela's The Translator and Coloured Lights.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Our conception of the "political" or "ethical" is in many ways hopelessly circumscribed by the secular, rational calculations which underscore the movement of modern European thought--from Europe "out" into the (post)colonial world. (Gandhi 2006:116) I wanted to understand the ...