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

{"title":"Safundi: the Journal of South African and American Studies seeks co-editors","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1876974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1876974","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"86 1","pages":"(v) - (vii)"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72766704","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":"Media in Postapartheid South Africa: postcolonial politics in the age of globalization","authors":"A. Pieterse","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1841465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1841465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"102 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91168960","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":"Race, class and the post-apartheid democratic state","authors":"Thula Simpson","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2021.1885120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2021.1885120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"92 1","pages":"95 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76569597","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":"Da struggle kontinues: Zulu love letter and the audiovisual language of a African counter cinema","authors":"Dylan Valley","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1823739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1823739","url":null,"abstract":"Zulu Love Letter (2005) was ahead of its time in terms of its disenchantment with the then vaunted idea of the “rainbow nation” (when South Africa was under the spell of Madiba Magic) and in its innovative cinematic aesthetic. Unlike films such as Forgiveness (2004), Red Dust (2004) and In My Country (2004) that dealt with matters related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Zulu Love Letter questioned the grand narrative of the new South Africa and drew attention to the tensions between official projections of reconciliation and the continuing unfinished business of apartheid in the lives of the black women characters that are at the center of its narrative. Written by Bhekizizwe Peterson and directed by Ramadan Suleman, the film presents a black radical perspective on the problematics of forgetting and the lingering psychological trauma that apartheid inflicted on its victims. More importantly for me, the film has a distinctive aesthetic quality that is both sublime and political. In this essay, I will examine the audiovisual language of Zulu Love Letter with a particular focus on how the cinematography, editing and sound design work together to constitute, drawing on Peter Wollen,a subversive counter-cinema through a style that, in line with its thematic intentions, grapples with the visual, sonic and affective challenges related to the depiction and appreciation of trauma, memory and healing. Zulu Love Letter’s protagonist Thandeka Khumalo (Pamela Nomvete) is a journalist and woman who is at odds with post-1994 South Africa as she struggles to come to terms with her traumatic encounters during apartheid. The film not only centralizes black women but also chose a flawed and imperfected protagonist: she grapples with the performance of the patriarchal senses of femininity and motherhood demanded of her. Her strained relationship with her daughter Simangaliso and elderly parents gesture to the inter-generational and cultural strains within the black family/community and how these exceed the framing of reconciliation along racial lines. That notwithstanding, Thandeka is strong, resolute and unafraid to challenge the status quo. This layered depiction of black womanhood is uncommon in mainstream cinema (including South African cinema) which, more often than not, hegemonizes the experiences of male protagonists. Kenqu writes that Zulu Love Letter is a counter-cinema feminist text precisely because of the extraordinary ways it explores black womanhood. The counter-cinema elements can be read not only in the film’s its narrative content but also in its audiovisual form. Broadly speaking, counter-cinema aims to depart from","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"19 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74736368","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":"Thugocracy: bandit regimes and state capture","authors":"Nancy Ries","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1832804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1832804","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper I analyze the Trump, Putin, and Zuma regimes as “thugocracies”: projects of sophisticated state capture, through organized crime networks at every level of scale, and utilizing complex arrays of mafia tactics, personnel, and practices. With a basis in first-hand ethnography on the modalities of the mafia in Russia in the 1990s, I delineate critical interconnections between thugocrats operating in South Africa, the Russian Federation, and the United States, arguing that their networks are simultaneously local, extensively transnational, and closely intertwined. Though thugocratic regimes target the rule of law and civil society in order to “make crime legal,” I conclude that inquiries like the South African Zondo Commission help create public outrage and awareness of the threat thugocracy poses to democracy.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"473 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90920792","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":"Big man sovereignty and sexual politics in pandemic time","authors":"N. Hoad","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1832801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1832801","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay investigates why voters both forgive and reward the corruption enacted by Trump and Zuma because of the powerful illiberal fantasies they solicit in relation to their respective national mythologies of the good life. It does so by attending to the sexual politics these presidents articulate and perform. It describes and analyzes Mar-a-Lago and Nkandla as dream palaces of national belonging, Trump and Zuma’s public and private utterances about gender and sexual minorities, the rape allegations that have swirled around the two men, and their responses to pandemics. While their presidencies have no doubt violated the norms of constitutional democracy, the essay argues that we need to see them as both aberrant and symptomatic in relation to such norms.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"433 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88450430","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 dictator as heuristic: Trump, Zuma, and the hazards of comparison","authors":"Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1832802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1832802","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay investigates the hazards of comparing Trump and Zuma, invoking “hazard” in its negative as well as potentially positive senses. Focusing on the recurrent association of Trump with (often former) strongmen of the erstwhile Third World – as in the Daily Show’s 2015 segment, “Donald Trump: America’s First African President” – I posit that the critical value of such characterizations is undercut by the assumptions they reveal about Africa and the Global South. But I do not entirely discard the critical utility of comparing Trump and Zuma. I argue instead for a comparison rooted in an understanding of “resonance” (as loose or fleeting similarity), which allows for significant difference, including the very different positions these two actors occupy in the global hierarchy of power. Ultimately, Trump and Zuma are best understood as heuristics for the other: figures of thought or learning aids that help in working through a particular problem.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"456 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79058671","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":"On misogyny and the women who say “no”","authors":"L. Graham","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1835279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1835279","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay explores misogyny in the words and behavior of Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump, who became presidents of South Africa and the United States of America, respectively, in the twenty first century. The argument moves from examining the misogyny of charismatic male leaders, to discussing Trump’s apparent narcissism, and the limits of comparing Trump with Zuma, to a focus on both Trump and Zuma as populist presidents. While the essay is comparative in so far as it discusses what Zuma and Trump might have in common, particularly regarding their attitudes and behavior toward women, it also argues for the limits of comparison and the importance of considering intersectionality, geopolitics, and history when comparing them. Most importantly, it aims to trace and foreground the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, or said “no” to definitions of women espoused by Zuma, Trump and their respective supporters.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"2013 1","pages":"416 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82611658","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":"On crowned anarchy: three hypotheses","authors":"Adam Sitze","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1832800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1832800","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay explores the conditions of possibility for the critique of the new illiberalism exemplified by leaders such as Donald Trump and Jacob Zuma. It proposes three hypotheses. The first is that corruption is more than just a failure of the Rule of Law, but is also its innermost possibility and end result. The second is that the new illiberalism presupposes the sublation of a certain tradition of critique (focused on the practices of unmasking and transparency). The third is that critique today needs the courage to face a “giddy world.”","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"394 - 415"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75698837","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":"What we can learn from the Gupta brothers","authors":"Vikrant Dadawala","doi":"10.1080/17533171.2020.1832805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1832805","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on the “Indian” angle of South Africa’s “state capture” scandal. I argue that it is the Indian-born Gupta brothers – rather than Presidents Trump or Zuma – who offer us a model for a new kind of comparative inquiry that maps emerging geographies of corruption, power, and influence.","PeriodicalId":43901,"journal":{"name":"Safundi-The Journal of South African and American Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"486 - 492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91243648","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}