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Journal articles on the topic "Science fiction, South African – History and criticism"

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Jenkins, E. R. "English South African children’s literature and the environment." Literator 25, no. 3 (2004): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v25i3.266.

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Historical studies of nature conservation and literary criticism of fiction concerned with the natural environment provide some pointers for the study of South African children’s literature in English. This kind of literature, in turn, has a contribution to make to studies of South African social history and literature. There are English-language stories, poems and picture books for children which reflect human interaction with nature in South Africa since early in the nineteenth century: from hunting, through domestication of the wilds, the development of scientific agriculture, and the chang
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Kambon, Ọbádélé Bakari, and Lwanga Songsore. "Fiction vs. Evidence: A Critical Review of Ataa Ayi Kwei Armah’s Wat Nt Shemsw and the Eurasian Rhetorical Ethic." African and Asian Studies 20, no. 1-2 (2021): 124–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341486.

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Abstract At the 2018 Outstanding African Thinkers Conference on Nna Chinweizu, attendees – the first author included – took a pledge that “In all branches of our lives, we must be capable of criticizing and of accepting criticism. But criticism, proof of the willingness of others to help us or of our willingness to help others, must be complemented by self-criticism – proof of our own willingness to help ourselves to improve our thoughts and our actions. This is a sacred principle and it is my sacred duty to apply and defend it at all costs” (Chinweizu 2018). In response to that call to action
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Saunders, Chris. "Comparing the Namibian and South African Liberation Struggles." Matatu 50, no. 2 (2020): 280–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05002007.

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Abstract This essay is a preliminary attempt to compare the ways in which the liberation struggles in Namibia and South Africa have been memorialised, both in non-fiction writing about the two struggles and in monuments, memorials and museums. Such a comparison needs to be undertaken through contextualising the two struggles. Though they have some similar features, the ways they have been memorialised are strikingly different, with the armed struggle having been given much greater emphasis in Namibia than in South Africa.
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Gagiano, Annie. "South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid." Journal of Language and Politics 5, no. 1 (2006): 97–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.5.1.06gag.

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The apartheid policies and practices by means of which South Africa was formerly governed also had an ideological or mythological dimension, which functioned as its justificatory narrative. The process of replacing that narrative which needs to be undertaken in South Africa can make use, among other processes, of the re-presentations of this society by our novelists. This paper sketches something of the complex interplay between fiction, social reality, and moral-political understanding at the hand of six novels. It focuses on depictions of acts and experiences of violation as the signature of
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Rogan, John M. "A response to Maarschalk's criticism of “innovation in South African education (part 1): Science teaching observed”." Science Education 74, no. 4 (1990): 503–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sce.3730740410.

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Commissiong, Anand Bertrand. "Where Is the Love? Race, Self-Exile, and a Kind of Reconciliation." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 21, no. 1 (2021): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.21.1.2020-06-18.

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Cultivating solidarity or love for community for those systematically abused by the state and its civic community is a longstanding challenge. While the latter should primarily shoulder responsibility for (re)building trust, this article focuses on the abused self-exile’s agency and possible reasons for return. To understand possible motivations for (re)engagement, this article explores the African American expatriate experience rendered in fiction and criticism. It focuses specifically on William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face and its portrait of the potentialities of Black love as a vehicle
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van der Vlies, Andrew. "On the Ambiguities of Narrative and of History: Writing (about) the Past in Recent South African Literary Criticism." Journal of Southern African Studies 34, no. 4 (2008): 949–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070802456870.

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Nabutanyi, Edgar. "Powerful Men and Boyhood Sexuality in K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents." Matatu 48, no. 1 (2016): 33–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04801004.

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In Southern African postcolonial discourses, sexual violation is often deployed as an allegory for either patriarchal control or racial domination. This perhaps explains the huge archive of narratives of sexual violence in the Southern African literary canon. While this archive and its scholarship mainly concentrates on the experiences of women and girls, a substantial number of texts portraying the sexual abuse of boys from the region demand that scholarly attention is paid to this phenomenon. Does contemporary South African fiction’s privileging of the sexual violation of boys suggest that b
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Domańska, Ewa. "Unbinding from Humanity: Nandipha Mntambo’s Europa and the Limits of History and Identity." Journal of the Philosophy of History 14, no. 3 (2020): 310–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341452.

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Abstract This article shows that the question of “Historical Thinking and the Human” demands expanding the field of the philosophy of history. What I propose is to investigate the issue from two perspectives: firstly, by positioning it in the broader philosophical context, one that increasingly transcends the boundaries of the humanities to enter the realm of the life sciences; and secondly, by drawing on a wider range of analytical material than has usually been the case in classic works in the philosophy of history. I will critically reflect upon history’s anthropocentric biases, highlightin
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Carroll, Richard. "The Trouble with History and Fiction." M/C Journal 14, no. 3 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.372.

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Historical fiction, a widely-read genre, continues to engender contradiction and controversy within the fields of literature and historiography. This paper begins with a discussion of the differences and similarities between historical writing and the historical novel, focusing on the way these forms interpret and represent the past. It then examines the dilemma facing historians as they try to come to terms with the modern era and the growing competition from other modes of presenting history. Finally, it considers claims by Australian historians that so-called “fictive history” has been best
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Science fiction, South African – History and criticism"

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Steenkamp, Elzette Lorna. "Identity, belonging and ecological crisis in South African speculative fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002262.

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This study examines a range of South African speculative novels which situate their narratives in futuristic or ‘alternative’ milieus, exploring how these narratives not only address identity formation in a deeply divided and rapidly changing society, but also the ways in which human beings place themselves in relation to Nature and form notions of ‘ecological’ belonging. It offers close readings of these speculative narratives in order to investigate the ways in which they evince concerns which are rooted in the natural, social and political landscapes which inform them. Specific attention is
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Marais, Susan Jacqueline. "(Re-)inventing our selves/ourselves : identity and community in contemporary South African short fiction cycles." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016357.

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In this study I focus on a number of collections of short fiction by the South African writers Joël Matlou, Sindiwe Magona, Zoë Wicomb and Ivan Vladislavić, all of which evince certain of the characteristics of short story cycles or sequences. In other words, they display what Forrest L. Ingram describes as “a double tendency of asserting the individuality of [their] components on the one hand and of highlighting, on the other, the bonds of unity which make the many into a single whole”. The cycle form, thus defined, is characterised by a paradoxical yet productive and frequently unresolved te
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Williams, Jenna Elizabeth. "A changing didacticism : the development of South African young adult fiction from 1985 to 2006." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004293.

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This thesis endeavours to establish how political transformation in South Africa has impacted on the didactic function of locally produced young adult fiction between the years of 1985 and 2006. To this end, a selection of young adult novels and short stories are examined in relation to the time period during which they were written or are set, namely the final years of apartheid (from 1985 to the early 1990s), the period of transition from apartheid to democracy (approximately 1991 to 1997), and the early years of the twenty-first century (2000 to 2006). Chapter One provides a brief overview
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West, Mary Eileen. "White women writing white : a study of identity and representation in (post-)apartheid literatures of South Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/442.

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This thesis examines aspects of identity and representation using contemporary theories and definitions emerging out of a growing body of work known as whiteness studies. The condition of whiteness as it continues to inform identity politics in post-apartheid South Africa is explored in an analysis of selected texts written by white women, to demonstrate the ways in which whiteness continues to suggest normativity. In reading a representative selection of literatures produced in contemporary South Africa by white women writers, this study aims to illustrate the ambivalence apparent in the inte
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Cole, Lorna. "An examination of the suitability of some contemporary South African fiction for readers in the post-developmental reading stage." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003412.

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Adverse criticism regarding the quantity and quality of children's books in South Africa appear in such respected sources as The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and The Companion to South African English Literature, the authors of which are of the opinion that South African children are dependent solely upon Eurocentric literature for their reading material. In recent years however, local publishers have attempted to redress this imbalance by offering prizes for unpublished works. These prizes have acted as incentives for aspiring writers, many of whom have had novels published speci
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Mbao, Wamuwi. "Imagined pasts, suspended presents South African literature in the contemporary moment." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002244.

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Scholarship on Post-Apartheid South African literature has engaged in various ways with the politics of identity, but its dominant mode has been to understand the literature through an anxious rupture-continuation paradigm in which the Apartheid past manifests itself in the present. However, in the contemporary moment, there are writers whose texts attempt to forge new paths in their depictions of identities both individual and collective. These texts are useful in contemplating how South Africans experience belonging and dislocation in various contexts. In this thesis, I consider a range of c
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Scott, Simone. "Apartheid legacies and identity politics in Kopano Matlwa's Coconut, Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the light and Jacques Pauw's Little ice cream boy." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019955.

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An analysis of the preoccupation writers of South African fiction display after the process started by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is vital in post-apartheid South African writing. It becomes clear that a fascination with the past is not bound to any one specific racial or gender group within post-apartheid South Africa. Authors can therefore be said to continue the excavation work that the TRC started many years ago. The severe impact that the rigid classification of human beings into different groups based on race had, and continues to have, becomes evident in contemporary South
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Dass, Minesh. "“The stranger at home” : representations of home and hospitality in three South African post-transitional novels." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016355.

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This thesis examines the representation of home and hospitality in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light, Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret, and Ivan Vladislavić’s Double Negative. It attempts to trace the un-homeliness of the central characters and to account for their feelings of discomfort. As such, it argues that the home is incapable of being inviolable because the invasion of the public is always a possibility. The implication is that master narratives such as race, history and politics are always entering the space one constructs as private. That said, this study also argues that the hom
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Botha, Maria Elizabeth. "Eksperiment en intertekstualiteit: 'n studie van Ingrid Winterbach se Niggie (2002) en die oorlogsdagboek van Jan F.E. Celliers 1899-1902 (1978), asook ander Anglo-Boereoorlog tekste." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/436.

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This study focuses on the creative adaptation of Anglo-Boer War material in Ingrid Winterbach’s (Lettie Viljoen) Niggie [Cousin] (2002) with specific reference to the Oorlogsdagboek van Jan F.E. Celliers, 1899-1902 [War Diary of Jan F.E. Celliers, 1899-1902] (1978) and other texts written during or shortly after the Anglo Boer War in Dutch, such as Totius’ Vier-en-sestig dae te velde: ‘n Oorlogsdagboek [Sixty Four Days Afield: A War Diary] (1977) and in English, Woman’s Endurance (1904) by A.D.L. and Deneys Reitz’s Commando. A Boer Journal of the Boer War (1929). More recent Afrikaans novels d
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Ewing, Maureen Colleen. "South African women's literature and the ecofeminist perspective." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007808.

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A social-constructionist ecofeminist perspective argues that patriarchal society separates the human (or culture) from nature, which causes a false assumption that humanity possesses the right, as a superior species, to dominate nature. This perspective integrates the domination of nature with social conflicts, including but not limited to racial discrimination, gender oppression, and class hierarchies. Understanding how these various forms of oppression interrelate forms the main goal of an ecofeminist perspective. Since the nature-culture, female-male, and whitenonwhite conflicts resonate an
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Books on the topic "Science fiction, South African – History and criticism"

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The sermon and the African American literary imagination. University of Missouri Press, 1996.

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The sermon and the African American literary imagination. University of Missouri Press, 1994.

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Viola, André. New fiction in English from Africa: West, East, and South. Rodopi, 1998.

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Green, Michael Cawood. Novel histories: Past, present and future in South African fiction. Witwatersrand University Press, 1997.

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Writing woman, writing place: Contemporary Australian and South African fiction. Routledge, 2003.

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Truth and reconciliation: The confessional mode in South African literature. Heinemann, 2002.

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A story of South Africa: J.M. Coetzee's fiction in context. Harvard University Press, 1991.

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Gallagher, Susan V. A story of South Africa: J.M. Coetzee's fiction in context. Harvard University Press, 1991.

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Oboe, Annalisa. Fiction, history and nation in South Africa. Supernova, 1994.

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Sinha, Shabnam. Novelist as prisoner: The South African experience. Janaki Prakashan, 1990.

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