Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies最新文献

{"title":"Metaphysical exile: on J. M. Coetzee’s Jesus fiction","authors":"Diana Mudura","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1938877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1938877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"177 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89754864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Publishing and politics under apartheid and the CIA","authors":"S. Kitchen","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1947026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1947026","url":null,"abstract":"References Graham, Shane. Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. “Javits Sees U.S. Lag in ‘War’ of Culture.” New York Times (1923-Current File), September 3, 1962. https:// www-proquest-com.dist.lib.usu.edu/historical-newspapers/javits-sees-u-s-lag-war-culture/docview/ 116114569/se-2?accountid=14761 La Guma, Alex. Culture and Liberation: Exile Writings, 1966–1985, Ed. Christopher J. Lee. Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2021. Murphy, Kate, and Lucille Sherman. “Nikole Hannah-Jones considering Legal Action against UNC following Tenure Flap.” The News & Observer, May 27, 2021. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/ article251727288.html Popescu, Monica. At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: The New Press, 1999.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"183 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75878773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"This is the Place Salt Lake City, Utah and the Voortrekker Monument Pretoria: monuments to settler constructions of history, race, and religion","authors":"C. Prescott, N. Rees, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1924504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1924504","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay compares South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and the US’s This is the Place monument, both built to commemorate cross-country settler movements, for how the two contemporaneous monuments memorialize the nineteenth-century historical event in the service of the racial politics of the twentieth century. While the Voortrekker monument’s relief sculptures represent Black Africans as savages and intractable impediments to civilization, the This is the Place monument denies race as a factor in settlement, thus attempting to absolve settlers of the racially motivated violence that attended their colonization of the Great Basin. Perched on hilltops towering over their respective settler communities, both monuments similarly draw from the language of Beaux Arts classicism to venerate their subjects as civilizing heroes amid the chaos of Western colonialism and through comparison, we can see how both assert the colonizers’ race and religion as offering a divine sanction to their acts of conquest.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"105 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88445315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Of vagabonds and fellow travelers: African diaspora literary culture and the cultural Cold War","authors":"S. Graham","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1943875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1943875","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the writing of my book Cultural Entanglements: Langston Hughes and the Rise of African and Caribbean Literature, certain questions lurked irritatingly in the margins. The American writer Langston Hughes, I argued, spent his life cultivating networks of mutual support, promotion, translation, and influence across the pan-African world. But I also recognized that these efforts were ineluctably entangled (to use the book’s central metaphor) with systems of commodification and cultural exchange within a global capitalist system. What I had a harder time answering was the precise degree to which Hughes and the African and Caribbean writers in his orbit were knowingly complicit in the Anglo-American side of the “cultural Cold War.” When Hughes agreed to participate in and co-organize the conference sponsored by the American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1961, or when he connected young African writers to the radio programs produced by the Transcription Centre in London, did he have any suspicion that both institutions were covertly funded by the CIA? When Es’kia Mphahlele moved to Paris in 1961 to become Director of the African Program at the Congress for Cultural Freedom, did he know that it, too, was a front for the CIA’s campaign to win “hearts and minds” in the decolonizing nations of Africa and Asia? The series of articles in the New York Times that revealed these connections was published in April 1966, just over a year before Hughes’s death; was he caught by surprise, or merely caught? After all, many critics, in Hughes’s time and since, have speculated that the series of lecture tours he gave in Europe in the 1960s, sponsored by the US Department of State, was part of an agreement Hughes might have reached with American authorities to promote US interests in exchange for not being blacklisted or further persecuted following his appearance before Joseph McCarthy’s senate subcommittee in 1953. How deep did these entanglements go? I found nothing in the archival record to answer these questions definitively, and they were ultimately peripheral to my argument, but I was haunted by the knowledge that their answers could change the way we think about these writers. I begin my review of Cedric Tolliver’s erudite and masterful book Of Vagabonds and Travelers with this account of some blind spots in my own book for a reason: I sorely wish I could have read Tolliver before I finished Cultural Entanglements. While he does not answer the particular questions I pose above, he does offer a framework for understanding the tensions and pressures that Hughes and other African diaspora writers of the early Cold War period had to navigate. Black writers who declined to challenge the agenda of anti-communism and racial liberalism were rewarded with opportunities to publish, have their work promoted, and win awards, effectively drowning out the voices of more radical critics who insisted that racism was woven into the basic fab","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"180 - 183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82235045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Story of a Mother: a Biopolitical Reading of Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother","authors":"Namrata Dey Roy","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1943847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1943847","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother, a fictional rendition of Amy Biehl’s murder, has been analyzed as a text that challenges the TRC’s reconciliatory philosophy, generates an empathetic dialogue across the color line, and reclaims the subdued maternal identity and voice. However, Mandisa’s narrative throws light on the condition of motherhood in apartheid South Africa. Examining Mandisa’s position as a girl, woman, and mother through a Foucauldian biopolitical lens, this paper argues that Mandisa’s story reveals the biopolitical construction of motherhood at a crucial historical juncture of South Africa. This analysis reveals that the novel is not a mere maternal testimony; rather, the narrative elucidates the creation of the docile bodies of black women under structural oppression and discursive regulation.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"162 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84546995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The excremental postapartheid imaginary: Niq Mhlongo’s Dog Eat Dog","authors":"Bridget Grogan","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1869383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1869383","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Niq Mhlongo’s use of scatology in Dog Eat Dog foregrounds his exploration of the temporal affects of disillusionment and disappointment. Drawing together critical and theoretical writing on affect, scatology, the postcolony, and abjection, this article contends that corporeality is symbolically and politically significant in the postapartheid imaginary. This significance is evident throughout Dog Eat Dog, especially in two episodes set in university toilets, which explore through corporeal imagery the topics of racial abjection, vulnerability, and exclusion in postapartheid South Africa. The article draws attention to the affective and political aspects of Mhlongo’s excremental postapartheid vision, a feature of his (and others’) writing which should not be dismissed, for example, as extraneous or merely comic detail. Implicit in the argument is the call for nuanced readings in postapartheid literature of the body and its processes; these representations of corporeality often signal political inequality and exclusion within the social body itself.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"48 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84301999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"One day in Bethlehem","authors":"D. Roux","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1841464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1841464","url":null,"abstract":"massive Loosing the Bonds, which also chronicles relations between the United States and South Africa over centuries in at-times excruciating detail. (It was also written by a former anti-apartheid activist and weighs in at 895 pages.) While both books are clearly works of personal passion – White Supremacy Confronted is a book that Horne has been building toward his entire life – for the reader, more often than not, less is more. Regardless, Horne’s work is an important contribution, exploring the myriad ways in which communism and anti-communism became entangled in the long struggle for liberation in southern Africa.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"100 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86558007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A tribute to Andrew van der Vlies, outgoing Lead Editor for Safundi","authors":"S. Graham","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1876972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1876972","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2020 was one of loss and mourning for most all of us. That feeling is compounded for us at Safundi by the departure of our Lead Editor. It is hard to convey how important Andrew van der Vlies has been to the operations and the identity of Safundi for more than a decade. Having spent three years as Reviews editor, he became one of the coeditors in 2010, and then stepped into the role of Lead Editor in 2014 when the founding editor, Andrew Offenburger, resigned. Now Andrew van der Vlies in turn is stepping down from the editorial team as he prepares for a move to Australia to take up a professorship at the University of Adelaide. In her moving address to the African Literature Association annual meeting in 2018, Carli Coetzee borrowed the metaphor of “holding the door open for others” for thinking about the ethics of journal editing and","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17533171.2021.1876972","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72386038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Culture and activism: Mongane Wally Serote’s To Every Birth Its Blood","authors":"Carolyn Ownbey","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1874095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1874095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For South African author Mongane Wally Serote, art and activism can only operate in tandem. In the 1970s and 1980s, Serote took leadership roles in revolutionary and anti-apartheid organizations and movements, and in his writing and in these activist roles he mobilizes the one as a means to achieve the ends of the other. In his novel To Every Birth Its Blood, he uses narrative to experiment with chronology and perspective, and explore the physical spaces of township, exile, and state in ways that challenge the apartheid regime’s authority to regulate the lives of South Africans. Serote deploys the novel form against apartheid’s policies, social organization, and legacy. Through this work, he indicts the regime for human rights abuses, and imagines a new world order shaped by inclusive forms of community that carry forward the fight for equal rights.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"238 1","pages":"80 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75901687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"White supremacy confronted: U.S. imperialism and anti-communism vs. the liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela","authors":"E. Morgan","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1885121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1885121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"97 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81171053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}