Recently added articles from Journal of Literary Studies:
Cracking the code: translation as transgression in Triomf.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Summary This article has been braided from two main strands: first, my arguments probe the conditions that pertain to the project of literary translation in South African letters, both in the light of my own research into and observations of conditions in the field, and my own ...
'n "Paradise Lost": 'n Ondersoek na swart arbeid en wit ongemak in stedelike Suid-Afrika: Marlene van Niekerk se kortverhaal "Klein vingeroefening rondom die nosie van hibriditeit".
Sep 01, 2009; ... Summary Marlene van Niekerk's short story "Klein vingeroefening rondom die nosie van hibriditeit" (2001) confronts the ambivalence inherent in the legacy of Madamhood which is coupled with a post-apartheid sense of white displacement. This "small finger exercise on the notion ...
Introduction: the power of autobiography in Southern Africa.(Special Issue 1)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Biography became an important method of reconstructing the past in Britain and America only in the nineteenth century and by the second quarter of the twentieth century it had, in radical circles at least, come to be regarded as inferior historiography. The cult of the great leader or the ...
Writing a life in epistolic form: Bessie Head's letters.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Summary In this article Bessie Head's letters--mainly those published in the two collections, Vigne's A Gesture of Belonging (1991) and Cullinan's/maginative Trespasser (2005) along with extracts from her letters quoted in Eilersen's biography of Head, Thunder Behind Her Ears ...
The self-invention of Hugh Masekela.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Summary This article examines the self-invention of Hugh Masekela as a troubadour of music and the frames through which the construction of the memory process is allowed to unfold. It argues that unlike straightforward resistance autobiography, Masekela's Still Grazing (2004) ...