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enHurst and Co.97818506582144900Civil War Is Not a Stupid Thing. Accounting for Violence in Developing CountriesCramer, Christopher2006BookNA
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enElsevier0305750X4900Homo Economicus Goes to War: Methodological Individualism, Rational Choice and the Political Economy of WarCramer, Christopher2002-11-01Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(02)00120-1
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enWiley095417484900Does Inequality Cause Conflict?Cramer, Christopher2003-05-01Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1002/jid.992
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The Haitian Revolution was the first incidence of mass emancipation in a colonial society and the only slave revolt that resulted in the formation of a modern state. However, existing canonical works on this revolution have largely concentrated on providing a central symbiotic relationship between the slave revolt and the broader changes in the Atlantic World during the 18th century. It has even been widely assumed that the Haitian Revolution was intellectually inspired by Western cultural values. Indeed, the Yoruba slave, Dutty Boukman, who ignited the revolution has been reduced to a mere footnote in the body of the prevailing Western-biased Haitian hegemonic historiography. This paper argues that the revolution, which was historically rooted in a legendary Yoruba tradition that abhors injustice, corruption and oppression, represents the very best of Yoruba’s cultural attainment in the Diaspora. The study further ‘resurrects’ the monumental contributions of Dutty Bookman to the outbreak of the revolution and underscores the fact that the Yoruba god of Ogun was the most portent rallying force that drove the revolution. Thus, the paper situates the cultural roots of the Haitian Revolution in its proper historical perspective and challenges one of the prevailing stereotypes about the “meagre” contributions of enslaved Africans to the emancipation of African slaves. The study, therefore, represents a major revision of the current historiography on the emancipation movement, and further highlights the methodological challenges of reconstructing the history of the slave trade in the Diaspora.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/5684/2/TheHaitianRevolution1791-1805.pdfenInternational Conference on "Teaching and Propagating African History and Culture to the Diaspora and Teaching Diaspora History and Culture to Africa, " State University of Rio de Janeiro4900Historicising African Contributions to the Emancipation Movement: The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1805Ogen, OlukoyaConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/7192/1/Kula%26Marten2008.pdfenIvy Press/University of California Press9780520255609210049003100Central, East and Southern African LanguagesKula, Nancy C.Marten, LutzAustin, Peter2008Book chapterNA
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In addition to practical, pragmatic functions, both money and language fulfil symbolic functions. The designation, design and language use of currencies, like choices about language policies and national languages carry symbolic weight and reflect different conceptions of national identity. In independent Africa, different approaches to language policy and currency terms are found, and the interaction between the two often reflects specific historic-political circumstances and the public and official portrayal of nationhood. Tracing language and currency choices in Zambia and Tanzania shows that the situations in the two countries stand in an inverse symmetrical relation: In Zambia, language choice was primarily pragmatic, and currency terms carry high symbolic function. In contrast, in Tanzania, the choice of Swahili as national language was highly symbolic, while the choice of currency terms was pragmatic. Although the relations between language and currency terms identified in the case studies are specific to Zambia and Tanzania, the study shows how symbolic functions of money and language are embedded in discourses about national identity more generally.enTaylor and Francis13696815210049003100Meanings of money: national identity and the semantics of currencies in Zambia and TanzaniaMarten, LutzKula, Nancy C.2008-12Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/13696810802522361
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enFamily Law978184661182749004000Socio-legal approaches to children’s rights under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A discussion of methodologyKaime, ThokoAtkin, Bill2009Book chapterNA
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0This thesis examines the formative fiction of J. M. Coetzee and his first book of essays, White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988). His latest novel Disgrace (1999), has already made literary history, winning Coetzee his second Booker Prize. It certainly invites new readings and links with his earlier work, which I discuss in my Introduction.
I have tried to range across Coetzee’s work while heeding the structure that has emerged out of my research: long (sequential) chapters, divided into three or more sections, which discuss issues around the writing and reading of four novels - including the processes of production, publishing and reception in local South African and international terms; questions of intertextuality, authorship and colonial representations of the South African landscape - before finally closing with a reading of each novel. My scope thus more widely looks at textual proliferations, comparative ‘colonial encounters’, the imaging of the land, and what Coetzee has called the ‘Discourse of the Cape’. While the chapters on ‘The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee’ in Dusklands (1974), In the Heart of the Country (1977) and Foe (1986) focus on colonial discourse and colonial space (on explorer narratives and travel writing, on gender and the genre of colonial pastoral), the chapter on Coetzee's 1983 Booker Prize-winner Life & Times of Michael K, like Disgrace, encompasses a more contemporary Cape landscape. Here I discuss Coetzee’s notion of the ‘provincial’ in the context of debates on the ‘national’ and ‘postcolonial’ novel in South Africa. The final chapter on Foe equally offers a balance to the South African emphasis of my thesis by looking back more broadly to British imperialism and a canon of colonial texts - from castaway and captivity narratives to the journals of Columbus, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and the novels of Defoe.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/9792/1/Easton-TOC.pdfen862020512050T21004900Textuality & the Land: Reading 'White Writing' and the Fiction of J. M. CoetzeeEaston, KaiThesisSMURhttp://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00009792
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enIndependent Digital News and Media1741974386202051205021004900Strange tales from a bitter paradise [Review of Tatamkhulu Afrika, Bitter Eden and Etienne van Heerden, The Long Silence of Mario Salviati]Easton, Kai2002-08-27otherNA
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enUniversity of Oklahoma0196357086202051205021004900Review of Sindiwe Magona, 'Mother to Mother'Easton, Kai2002otherNA
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enBoston Globe Media Partners0743179186202051205021004900Two South African voices for justice, reconciliation [Review of Desmond Tutu’s No Future without Forgiveness and Ahmed Kathrada’s Letters from Robben Island: A Selection of Ahmed Kathrada’s Prison Correspondence, 1964–1989, edited by Robert D. Vassen]Easton, Kai2000-01-02otherNA
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enBoston Globe Media Partners0743179186202051205021004900The daring life of a radically different Afrikaner [Review of Stephen Clingman's Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary]Easton, Kai1998-07-12otherNA
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enBoston Globe Media Partners0743179186202051205021004900Private Lives: A detailed second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs; an absorbing childhood memoir by J. M. Coetzee [Review of Doris Lessing's Walking in the Shade and J. M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life]Easton, Kai1997-10-26otherNA
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enTaylor and Francis030570702051205021004900Part Special Issue: Zoe Wicomb: Texts and HistoriesAttwell, DavidEaston, Kai2010-09otherNA
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enRoutledgehttp://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event46091.htmlhttp://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/ZWicomb/index.htm0305707086202051205021004900'Introduction', Zoe Wicomb: Texts & HistoriesAttwell, DavidEaston, KaiJournal Article/ReviewNA
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enSouthern African Texts and Contexts Seminar86202051205021004900Letters from the Cape: Dorothea Fairbridge, Lady Lucie Duff Gordon and Lady Anne BarnardEaston, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enASA-UK862021004900'A quick jaunt or a great trek? Mary Hall's Travels from the Cape to Cairo'Easton, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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Alan Lester and Elleke Boehmer have both written on imperial networks, but what happens when our case studies are linked across history, generationally and by gender – regionally rather than globally? To move on from Sara Mills’s substantial and influential study on women’s travel writing, Discourses of Difference (1991), and the two questions highlighted by her publishers on the book jacket:
‘How did women write in the colonial period?’ and
‘Is there a specifically female genre of travel writing?’
I want to argue for a closer look at more regional interconnections, that is, both earlier and later writings which trace the same space. One of the questions behind this project is whether ‘travelling metaphors’ (see Elleke 1995) – the replication of symbols, sites, texts across colonial spaces – must necessarily travel very far from home.
This is an overview and extract from my project on gender, travel and colonialism at the Cape of Good Hope.
My original focus on one writer (Dorothea Fairbridge) has led to a more expansive study of British women travellers at the Cape. And the genesis of this project actually emerges from my work on J. M. Coetzee and ‘colonial textuality’. While the present study is ostensibly female-centred and overtly regional (Cape), it is also concerned with creating a dialogue between texts of some of the better-known male travel writers we know – for example, Barrow, Burchell, Pringle (all of whom are discussed in Coetzee’s White Writing), the now canonical figures of Lady Anne Barnard and Lady Lucie Duff Gordon, and a network of other female travellers whose writings have either been published locally or remain unpublished and in the archives. Together they simultaneously contribute to a more gendered ‘discourse of the Cape’ as well as show the ways in which – as Noel Mostert refers to it – the Cape was a ‘magnet’: not just a half-way station or stopping point en route to the East Indies, a central site for imperial communications and the politics of colonial expansion, but a site of shifting identities and transcultural activity.
If anything the Cape, as we see in history, and as it has been highlighted in more recent critical writing and fiction (such as Ishtiyaq Shukri and Zoë Wicomb), is a diasporic space – and here I refer theoretically not only to Avtar Brah but also to James Clifford, and to the ways in which terms such as ‘travel’ and ‘diaspora’ jostle and intersect.
To translate ‘travel’ as I am using it today: none of my case studies refers to the Mary Kingsley type of traveller: they are not independent women travelling alone in search of adventure, scientific or anthropological knowledge, confronting danger, all the while maintaining ‘ladylike’ behaviour in foreign lands. These are elite British women who are variously accompanying husbands, on brief tours or temporary residency, or – as in the case of Lady Duff Gordon – who are married but single, travelling alone in search of a healthy climate; or – as in the case of Dorothea Fairbridge – a South African English spinster – travelling with a male friend when she is actually in ill-health, on a pilgrimage to the graveside of the Empire-builder Cecil John Rhodes. They write letters home, and some of them keep journals documenting not only the space they inhabit at the Cape, but also the places they visit. These excursions or ‘tours’ up-country, on the peninsula, by Cape cart, carriage, ox-wagon, horseback, walking, climbing, by train, car, and even by chair (in the tricky bits in her ascent of Table Mountain, for instance, Lady Herschel was taken by four strong men in ‘luxury’ in a chair made by her husband, the renowned astronomer Sir John Herschel) – nevertheless show us a Colony and country in the making from the eyes of lesser-known British women writers, whose travels outside the home they made for themselves at the Cape – however much an ‘interlude’ in their biographies - offer a fascinating ‘counter-discourse’, supplement, or challenge to – for example – the male writers discussed by Mary Louise Pratt and J. M. Coetzee in their respective seminal studies. (Michelle Adler and Carli Coetzee have equally addressed this gap in their respective doctoral theses on travel and landscape in South Africa).enhttp://sun025.sun.ac.za/portal/page/portal/Arts/Departments/english/news_activities/Tab2Dept of English seminar series86202051205021004900Gender, Travel, Cape: British Women Writing Colonial South Africa, 1797-1931Easton, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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This chapter considers how we might locate ‘Africa’ or ‘African Culture’ in the letters Lady Margaret Herschel wrote from the Cape of Good Hope between 1834 and 1838. In her four-year residency with her famous astronomer husband, Sir John Herschel, and her growing family (having arrived with three children, aged only 23, she produced a further three children while at the Cape, and another six on her return to England), Lady Herschel was a dedicated correspondent, particularly to her mother ‘Mrs Stewart’, her brothers in India, China and London, and Sir John’s cousins Thomas & Mary Baldwin and his celebrated aunt (his father’s assistant astronomer), Caroline Herschel in Hanover. The collection of letters we have also includes one local friend, Mrs Maclear, wife of the Royal Astronomer at the Cape, recent arrivals like themselves.
There is something of a Herschel at the Cape industry, sparked primarily by the prolific professor of astronomy, Brian Warner, at the University of Cape Town. Warner has also taken a great interest in archival material which is not of a scientific nature, editing not only the selection of letters by Lady Herschel, which I am focusing on here, but also her husband’s Cape sketches, and their collaboration on botanical paintings; additionally, Professor Warner has edited the papers of Lady Jane Franklin, who visited the Cape with her husband Sir John during the Herschels’ sojourn at the Cape and on their way to his Governorship of Van Dieman’s Land (now Tasmania).
Warner has done the most to focus readers on Lady Herschel’s experience at the Cape, as well as Sir John’s. His focus, however, is not on the content of her writing or her travels, which have yet to be given extensive critical analysis. Rather, Lady Herschel’s letters – which are introduced by her descendant, John Herschel-Shorland, who has given permission to Warner to reproduce them here – are seen here as a supplement, interesting for what her letters provide regarding Sir John’s family life and the social history of the Cape in the early nineteenth century. In addition to Warner’s editorial role with regards to Lady Herschel, this chapter will address Elizabeth Green Musselman’s fascinating work on Sir John Herschel at the Cape. While attentive to metaphor (‘hunt’ and ‘harvest’) in Sir John’s diaries and letters from the Cape and incorporating fragments from Lady Margaret Herschel’s letters, Green Musselman does not consider questions of gender and empire and how Lady Herschel’s letters and botanical paintings significantly expand Herschel’s narrative of Africa. Thus if Green Musselman wants to read Herschel in the tradition of scientific explorer-adventurer in the service of Empire, we might consider how Lady Margaret Herschel acts both independently of her husband and as his collaborator in the pursuit of knowledge about ‘Africa’ or – at the very least, a small corner of the western Cape.
One of the reasons we are gathered here is to debate the very idea of how we ‘locate African culture’ in our various disciplines and with our different methodologies. Ideas of what is authentic to Africa or authentically African still seem to provoke controversy, despite the inevitable essentialist nature of these very terms. What does it mean, then, to look at the European encounter with Africa in regional and gendered terms? How diverse and how fluid are the identities of the European writing subjects I focus on here, and their impressions of the landscape they have come to temporarily or permanently inhabit? How much does ‘Africa’ resist colonial inscription?
As you will easily recognize, the phrase ‘Out of Africa’ in my more specific title alludes immediately to a more famous story of settler-colonial life in East Africa by Karen Blixen, who wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, and whose autobiographical account in the Highlands of Kenya inspired the popular film starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. In Dinesan’s book, the romance element that was marginal to her plot was emphasized in the film adaptation at the expense of her story of an encounter with Africa and Africans. But in my casting about for a new title, and in my anxiety that my subject has in fact not enough to do with ‘Africa’ (which is exactly what intrigued me), I was reminded of an article by J. M. Coetzee which reviews Ali Mazrui’s film series on Africa. ‘Out of Africa’ is now both something of a brandname, and a way to refer to what might be considered a superficial, surface encounter with a continent that has often been spoken of in monolithic terms. (There are similar issues when we look at the series ‘Into Africa’ with Henry Louis Gates, Jr, and ‘Geldof in Africa’.)
The story of the Herschels at the Cape is also a romance of a kind: of serious stargazing, bird hunting, bulb collecting, flower painting, and raising children in the idyllic surroundings of their renamed Dutch homestead Feldhausen (alias ‘The Grove’). According to Lady Herschel, her industrious husband is never more ‘idle’ – a word she uses often – and ‘free from anxiety’ – than during his time at the Cape, despite the magnificent effort of late nightly watches to sweep the southern hemisphere.
This chapter will consider how Lady Herschel ‘maps’ the Cape in her letters, and how we might read her narrative of family life at Feldhausen and her tours up-country with Sir John – and the final achievement of an ascent of Table Mountain (and a galloping on horseback across it while apparently four months’ pregnant – hence the chair, according to Prof Warner) – as a turning away from or turning to ‘Africa’, or ‘South Africa’. Remembering that her travels took place only 20 years after the Cape was secured by the British (after the end of the Napoleonic Wars), and that she was there to accompany her husband, the famous astronomer, in his mission to sweep the southern hemisphere at ‘the far end of Africa’ (his phrase), how does her own authorship to a private audience negotiate her own temporary residency in a British colony in Africa? What references does she make, if any, to Africa as a whole, and how much is British possession of the Cape naturalised in the discourse of the time? Does this change significantly, once we get to Lucie Duff Gordon, writing in the 1860s? Can we expect these two liberal-minded women, living quite different lives at the Cape, to share the same political views a generation distant?enLocating African Culture86202051205021004900"Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38Easton, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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The title of Mary Hall's travelogue, A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo (London: Methuen, 1907) suggests an arduous journey by foot by a woman on her own. It also suggests that we will learn something of the Cape and Cairo. But these two key sites are only marginal as it turns out - noteworthy enough to be mentioned, but of little interest to Hall, because of their proximity, in character, to Europe. Hall describes her comfortable travel in the introductory pages - by train, boat, and Cape cart; and she informs us that the African Lakes Corporation will supply her with a staff and camping equipment, taking her as far as Lake Tanganyika. It is this area - the 'less known country' of Stanley and Livingstone's Central Africa - that truly interests her. How then does the 'Cape-to-Cairo imaginary' - as Peter Merrington has called (2001) the imperial dream of Cecil Rhodes - play itself out in the narrative of this woman travelling across Africa, and 'alone' into the interior? If we compare it to the account of her male predecessors - Ewart Grogan and Arthur Sharp - the first Englishmen who actually trekked from the Cape to Cairo, can we identify, as Sara Mills (1991) has questioned, 'a specifically female genre of travel writing?' And what about, as the geographers Duncan and Gregory remind us, the physicality of travel?enUniversity of Sussex, Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies seminar86202051205021004900Travelling Africa: A Woman's Trek from the Cape to CairoEaston, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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What are the theoretical implications of my title? How easily can we translate cultures of 'travel' together with 'diaspora'? What ‐ exactly ‐ does 'diaspora' mean and how does it relate to ‐ or negate ‐ ideas of 'travel'? Of origins, home and belonging, journeys and returnings?
While our interest in travel and diasporic cultures is increasing in the arts and humanities, we still seem to separate the two terms, even while our definitions are ‐ appropriately enough ‐ fluid.
James Clifford refers to them as 'translation terms', to work and 'overwork', strategically, adaptively, contingently. For in academia and the media our distinctions are often generic, nationalised, racialised ‐ boxed into categories. There are of course a multitude of what Marjorie Garber has called 'category crossings', for travel writing is certainly not limited to the 'imperial gaze' that we read about in Mary Louise Pratt's seminal book, Imperial Eyes.
This is the framework for a discussion of a fictional response to some of these questions. How does Wicomb (a South African, long resident in Scotland) challenge colonial images of travel?
This paper will address the relevance of the discourses of travel and diaspora to Wicomb's fiction and will show how the cosmopolitan reach of her writing, like that of J. M. Coetzee, has much to say about the history of 'travel' ‐ in its most expansive sense ‐ at the Cape of Good Hope.enhttp://www.coetzeecollective.net/links.html42.htmlThe Cape and the Cosmopolitan: Reading Zoe Wicomb86202051205021004900Cultures of Travel: Cape Diasporas and Zoe Wicomb's Playing in the LightEaston, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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The title of Mary Hall's travelogue, A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo (London: Methuen, 1907) suggests an arduous journey by foot by a woman on her own. It also suggests that we will learn something of the Cape and Cairo. But these two key sites are only marginal as it turns out - noteworthy enough to be mentioned, but of little interest to Hall, because of their proximity, in character, to Europe. Hall describes her comfortable travel in the introductory pages - by train, boat, and Cape cart; and she informs us that the African Lakes Corporation will supply her with a staff and camping equipment, taking her as far as Lake Tanganyika. It is this area - the 'less known country' of Stanley and Livingstone's Central Africa - that truly interests her. How then does the 'Cape-to-Cairo imaginary' - as Peter Merrington has called (2001) the imperial dream of Cecil Rhodes - play itself out in the narrative of this woman travelling across Africa, and 'alone' into the interior? If we compare it to the account of her male predecessors - Ewart Grogan and Arthur Sharp - the first Englishmen who actually trekked from the Cape to Cairo, can we identify, as Sara Mills (1991) has questioned, 'a specifically female genre of travel writing?' And what about, as the geographers Duncan and Gregory remind us, the physicality of travel?enASA-UK86202051205021004900A quick jaunt or a great trek? Mary Hall's Travels from the Cape to CairoEaston, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enTaylor and Francishttp://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event46091.htmlhttp://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/ZWicomb/index.htm0305707086202051205021004900'Introduction', Zoe Wicomb: Texts and HistoriesAttwell, DavidEaston, Kai2010-09Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2010.510260
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This essay discusses two of Coetzee’s best-known works in academic circles: both appear widely on university syllabi and offer students a chance to engage with debates on authorship, intertextuality, and canonicity. Beginning with a discussion of the reception histories of these two novels, the essay charts the ways in which Coetzee’s fiction is consumed locally and globally and ask questions not only about the politics of writing, but also the ethics of reading (see Attwell 1993; Huggan 2001; Attridge 2005; and Easton in Morrison & Watkins (eds), 2006).
When Foe was published in 1986 at the height of State of Emergency South Africa, for example, it caused a stir for its apparent remoteness from the South African situation (as the reviewer Harriett Gilbert asked: 'Postmodern narratives while Soweto burns?'). When Disgrace appeared in 1999, it caused great consternation for its ‘bleak’ representation of the ‘new’ South Africa – not just in reviews, but also in Government quarters. At the same time, it won Coetzee many accolades, including an unprecedented second Booker Prize. What does this say about the absence of ‘South Africa’ as a geographical marker in Foe compared with its stark presence in Disgrace?
Like Coetzee’s 1994 novel, The Master of Petersburg, Foe involves a literary figure, a text, from afar, that intervenes in Coetzee's story: here it is of course Daniel Defoe, the eighteenth-century world of his Robinson Crusoe in particular, but also his corpus more generally; in The Master of Petersburg there is similarly a mix of fact, fiction and literary biography, when Coetzee uses Dostoevsky and the genesis of his novel The Possessed; in Disgrace, there is an obvious sub-text of Byron and his satire, Don Juan, as well as the poem ‘Lara’: and yet, since Byron is not exactly a character in this work, his presence too has been marginalised in the critical reception of this work.
These identifiable authors in Coetzee’s novels lead us to intertextuality and the question of canonicity. How do the canonical texts of Defoe (and behind him, a host of 'Robinsonnades') illuminate or problematise our reading of Coetzee's Foe, and how might their presence affect the way that Coetzee's own novel has become canonical? Had Coetzee not borrowed from Defoe, would his novel be taught in courses that focus not on postcolonial literature or Africa, or even South Africa, but contemporary literature and postmodernism? In the case of his later novel Disgrace, we have quite the opposite: this novel has been set in South Africa, a pointedly new South Africa, where Byron, and the teaching of Romantic poetry, are of seeming irrelevance. Do we need to know Byron to understand Disgrace? Do we need to know Defoe to understand Foe?
When Coetzee received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003, he offered not a lecture but a short story called 'He and His Man', in which questions of character and authorship continue: this story expands the story in Foe, since it is Robinson Crusoe (now with an 'e') who is seemingly alive and well in Bristol, writing about 'his man' Defoe/Foe, this busy man, who writes about plagues, and tours through England. Reading this ‘sequel’ story-lecture alongside Foe raises intriguing questions about ‘original’ texts, textual proliferations, and gaps and infiltrations in terms of gender, race, and history.
To explore the overlapping or fluid boundaries of fiction and history, we read Linda Hutcheon’s seminal essay on ‘historiographic metafiction’ (see The Poetics of Postmodernism); Brenda Marshall’s incisive reading of Barthes’s essay, ‘From Work to Text’ in relation to Foe (see Teaching the Postmodern, 1993) furthermore reminds us that intertextual readings are almost contradictory: if intertextuality is a ‘mosaic of quotations’ without origin, as Kristeva would have it, how do we as critics read the intertextual without falling into what Barthes calls ‘the myth of filiation’? How do we dismiss the idea of origins and source studies, whilst also pointing to possible literary predecessors?application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11013/2/kai_easton_-_teaching_coetzee%27s_foe_%26_disgrace.pdfen862020502051205421004900Teaching J. M. Coetzee's Foe and Disgrace: Intertextuality and the Question of CanonicityEaston, KaiotherAO
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[Selected correspondence of Michael William Dugdale Mills Richey MBE, Hon FRIN, first winner of the Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for Literature (1942), b. 6 July 1917, 9 Chiswick Place, Eastbourne; d. 22 December 2009, 16 Lewes Crescent, Brighton.]
It's difficult to write when you are at sea on a minesweeper, first of all on the lower decks as an ordinary seaman and then, having survived the sinking of your first ship, as an officer learning and quickly perfecting the art of navigation in the Second World War. Censorship prevents a full account of one's activities and destinations, and letters could take months to arrive.
This visual essay, drawn from images in his official archive at Georgetown University and from his sea-chest at home in Brighton at Lewes Crescent, focusses on the wartime correspondence of Michael Richey. His brother Paul Richey wrote the classic account Fighter Pilot (published anonymously during the war), while Mike’s own story of the HMS Goodwill, ‘Sunk by a Mine’, won the very first Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for Literature in 1942.
Post-war, Michael Richey went on to have a distinguished career as the first director of the (Royal) Institute of Navigation, and became a legend for his single-handed sailing adventures in the famous little boat Jester. He had signature postcards printed for his solo voyages. On the front, a black and white photograph of himself sailing the boat, on the back, the incomplete address in black type, ‘Yacht Jester at ______’.
This is a snapshot of one of the most fascinating figures in the ‘twentieth-century story’ who was also one of its most reluctant autobiographers [See Libby Purves http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/libby_purves/article6968938.ece].application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11615/1/Easton.pdfenPicture this: postcards and letters beyond text, Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text86202050205121004900Travels with Mike: from HMS Goodwill to Yacht JesterEaston, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enTaylor and Francis1753317186202050205121004900The Cape and the Cosmopolitan or Travels Around Wicomb on a Journey to the CederbergEaston, Kai2011-08Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2011.586830
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Wife of Admiral Sir Frederick Grey, Commander of the Cape of Good Hope and South Coast of Africa Station (a title changed, immediately on his arrival, to the West Coast of Africa Station), Lady Barbarina Grey left behind both a journal, the extracts of which have appeared in a published family chronicle, and also some 93 letters to her husband's cousin, Countess Maria. Today the letters are housed in Durham University special collections.
Extracts from both have been edited by Andrew L. Harington and published by the South African Library (1997). Harington came across Lady Grey's archives accidentally, but he is keen to reproduce a combined record that focusses on the Greys' sojourn at the Cape: those letters and journal entries, in other words, that focus on the Cape itself. The record is still fairly slight, but there is some remarkable material, particularly in the tantalising references to Lady Eliza Grey (no relation, but so elusive in the historical record compared with her husband, the Governor of the Cape, Sir George Grey). Lady Barbarina Grey documents her travels on the peninsula and inland -- visits to the usual colonial sites of Table Mountain and the Moravian mission station of Genadendal. For health reasons (risks of disease), she is advised not to accompany Sir Frederick on his tours of duty to West Africa. She does however take significant voyages with him east to Knysna and then, further into the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius and Madagascar and other nearby islands. But for all this it would seem, based on Harington's book, that Lady Grey's record is not written primarily offshore. Considering Sir Frederick's profession, and the fact that they are resident at Admiralty House in Simon's Bay rather than in Cape Town, to what extent does the 'coastal zone' of the south coast of Africa feature in her writings? This paper, which forms part of my larger project on British women writing colonial South Africa, looks at a selection of actual letters from the Durham special collections and assesses Lady Grey's engagement with the sea and all matters nautical. It also considers more critically other circuits of travel that she encountered as hostess: the traffic of visitors that included, for example, the legendary Dr Livingstone.enCoastlines and Littoral Zones: The 8th Annual Literature and Ecology Colloquium86202050205121004900Offshore from the Cape to Mauritius, 1857-1860: The Letters of Lady Barbarina GreyEaston, KaiConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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Thoko Kaime’s 'The Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Cultural Legitimacy Critique' looks at the protection and promotion of children’s rights through a socio-legal examination of the provisions of the world’s pre-eminent children’s rights treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The book focuses on this singular question: Does the Convention provide a culturally appropriate framework for the protection and promotion of children’s rights across different cultures? In examining this question, the book argues that the effective protection of the rights of the child will not be achieved unless the substantive protections are perceived as culturally legitimate by local communities and unless the implementation procedures are aimed at enhancing such legitimacy as opposed to merely ensuring adherence to form. The book benefits from a methodology that fuses international law methods with grounded anthropological narratives. It demonstrates that far from being abstract paper prescriptions, children’s rights frameworks are but a species of social and cultural interaction and that effective promotion and protection strategies must be alive to this dynamic. The book is a useful introduction to cultural critiques of children’s rights, in particular; and, indeed human rights generally.enEuropa Law Publishing978908952113249004000The Convention on the Rights of the Child: A cultural legitimacy critiqueKaime, ThokoBookNA
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Questions over durable solutions in the social, political and security terrain of southern Sudan and northern Uganda invite recognition that simple delineations between ‘‘home’’ and ‘‘exile’’ are inadequate for an understanding of displacement and refugee status. Contrary to existing policies that assume an unproblematic
repatriation of Sudanese refugees from their protracted exile in Uganda to a ‘‘post conflict’’ Sudan, the emerging reality is that multiple strategies of survival, selfprotection and development are being employed. This paper explores the variety and ingenuity with which refugees address challenges to livelihoods, identities and
security with a portfolio of responses which render the notion of a straightforward cross-border movement ‘‘home’’ largely notional. Drawing on long-term research in a number of Sudanese refugee settlements in northern Uganda since the mid-1990s, this article emphasizes the need to recognize that durable solutions should not be constructed as single and fixed in contexts where individuals and groups
may continue to migrate so as to meet their family’s collective needs. It also invites recognition of the extent and ways in which re-crossing international borders has
particular meaning for refugees given their specific legal status, as well as the additional relevance and significance of physical, social and symbolic boundaries
in such a context.enTaylor and Francis17531055854035004900Dispersal, division and diversification: durable solutions and Sudanese refugees in UgandaKaiser, Tania2010Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/17531050903550116
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This article argues that peoples’ affective relationships with the specific physical territories that they inhabit are informed by and constructive of the social relations and practices which are enacted in them. When people are forced to leave their homes, the ways in which they
engage with their physical, socio-cultural, political and spiritual landscapes are necessarily transformed. Based on ethnographic research with a group of long term Sudanese refugees in Uganda, the article shows how challenges to socio-cultural, ritual and political identities and
activities are just as great as the more tangible challenges to protection and subsistence for
refugees.
The article examines a number of key socio-cultural activities including funeral rituals and agricultural practices, exploring the extent and ways in which ‘place making’ in exile involves the active mediation of external factors at a several levels as well as processes of compromise and substitution with respect both to material culture unavailable in the settlement, and also with in
relation to social relations and practice.enTaylor and Francis17450101854035004900Social and Ritual Activity In and Out of Place: the 'Negotiation of Locality' in a Sudanese Refugee SettlementKaiser, Tania2008Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/17450100802376670
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This report documents the findings from a study on the relationship between safety/security and socio-economic wellbeing in Somaliland. The study was conducted for the Danish Demining Group (DDG) and Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining in twelve of DDG's project sites. It is based on a quantitative survey of 378 households and qualitative focus group interviews. Findings suggest a high degree of correlation between improvements in safety and security, many associated with the community safety work of DDG, and socio-economic benefits to communities. Reported benefits include fewer conflicts, more secure communities at night, fewer accidents involving small arms and explosive remnants of war, and better community-police relations. These are perceived to have contributed to improvements in access to markets, lengthening hours that businesses can remain open, improved opportunities for participating in savings activities, and generally increased household incomes. Recommendations for maximizing the benefits of improved security for socio-economic gains are provided.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17411/1/SOAS%20DDG%20Report.pdfenSOAS-University of London, DDG, GICHD854035004900Safety, Security and Socio-Economic Wellbeing in SomalilandHammond, Laura2013-11MonographNA
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Grounded in rich interview material recorded in Leiden, this article documents the artistry, passion, and professional dedication of a group of Malian craftsmen. In their own words (translated and transcribed from Bamanakan into English), five mud masons of Djenné deliberate upon training regimes, the growing importance of literacy and numeracy in their practice, competition and intergenerational conflict, the role of secrets in building construction, and new trajectories and contemporary challenges in the trade. In reflecting upon the current crises, their discussion also contributes to an understanding of ordinary people's struggles, ambitions, and changing life strategies during this difficult period in the nation's history.
Nin gafé nin sèmèlen bè an ka nyininkalibala, min kèra Leideni; w'a bè kuma Mali bololabaarakèlaba dòw de ka seko, dòniya an'u ka baara dusu de kan. Nin kòròfòli kònò (n'o bayèlèmana angilèkan na ka bò bamanankan na) Jene bògò masòn duuru b'u hakilila di fèn minnu kan o de y'u ka degeli tabolo, kalan ni jate dònni nafa, nyògòndan, danfara min bè mògò kòròbaw ni denmisènw ka ko kè cogo cè, ani masònya gundow marali nafa, fo ka taa se sisan ko kuraw ni tabolo kuraw gèlèya ma u ka baara kònò. U da selen fitinaw ma, o masala y'an dèmè k'a famuyalikè u ka tòoròya, u haminakow kan ani fèerèw minnu latigèlen b'u fè nin waati gèlèmanba ni na u ka jamana kònò.enTaylor and Francishttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13696815.2013.859570#.Uqsh3vRdUfU146993462004900For the Love of Masonry: Djenne craftsmen in turbulent timesMarchand, Trevor H.J.2013-12-12Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2013.859570
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Nationalism, especially supranationalism is the bane of global governance, and globalization. Whereas globalization seeks to unify the globe to function to advantage, supranationalisms operate to frustrate the coherence and achievement of this aim. This book delves into the Theories of Nationalism, the contours of supranational activity within global politics, international political economy, and global trade alliances vis-à-vis Africa. The book also identifies a list of African countries with identical issues, serial political difficulties, or time bombs ticking, and examines the performance of their political economies and new security challenges, using global indicators.enPalgrave Macmillan97802301028424900Nationalism, Globalization, and AfricaAmoah, Michael2011BookNAhttp://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002167
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enInstitute of Education97808547378024900The Dearing Report: ten years onAmoah, MichaelWatson, DavidotherNA
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The established theories and debates on nationalism were formed in the twin crucibles of Eighteenth-century Europe and America, and continue to be informed by that heritage. Reconstructing the Nation in Africa challenges some of the key principles that underlie the current debates on nationalism by exploring in depth the experience of multinational states in Africa. Taking Ghana as a case study, Michael Amoah introduces and develops two important new contributions to the theoretical tapestry of nationalism --the Rationalisation of Nationalism and Reconstructing the Nation, concepts that should have wide use and currency in the broader discussion of the national phenomenon. Reconstructing the Nation in Africa argues that the nationhood of Ghana is not rooted in modernity as is generally thought, and attempts to show by analysis of the microbehavior of its population that traditional views on the viability of the multinational state do not necessarily hold true for modern-day Africa.enTauris Academic Studies97818451125924900Reconstructing the Nation in AfricaAmoah, Michael2007BookNAhttp://doi.org/10.5040/9780755619122
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enAcademic Journals199608324900The Most Difficult Decision Yet: Ghana’s 2008 Presidential ElectionAmoah, Michael2009-04Journal Article/ReviewNA
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enInstitute of Education97808547378024900One Hundred Voices: the State of the HE NationAmoah, MichaelWatson, DavidAmoah, Michael2007Book chapterNA
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enEquinox146399554900Christian Musical Worship and Hostility to the Body: the Medieval Experience Versus the Pentecostal RevolutionAmoah, Michael2004Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1558/imre.v7i1.59
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enTaylor and Francis030562444900Nationalism in Africa: Ghana’s Presidential ElectionAmoah, Michael2003Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/03056240308370
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enDepartment of War Studies, King’s College London4900Mali in the Media [podcast]Amoah, MichaelotherNA
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enTaylor and Francis136968152004900Naming powers: Hausa tsafi and Tiv tsav2013-02-07Boyd, RaymondFardon, Richard2014-01-16Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2013.811068
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enLangaa RPCIG97899567917052004900Tiger in an African Palace, and other thoughts about identification and transformationFardon, Richard2014-06BookNA
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A central discussion in African Philosophy concerns the “African concept of time,” famously theorized by John S. Mbiti. Mbiti makes a distinction between a circular and a linear concept of time, associating the former with Africa and the latter with the West. Critical of such essentialist binaries, this article develops a nuanced understanding of the concepts of time and history expressed in two categories of novels in three African languages: Ujamaa novels in Swahili (Tanzania) and Chimurenga/Umvukela novels in Shona and Ndebele (Zimbabwe). While Ujamaa novels often operate on a circular concept of time, the Zimbabwean novels are based on a view of time as linear progress. The article argues that these concepts of time are determined by the genre conventions of the novel and the tale and that the adoption and hybridization of these genres has been decisively impacted by the state ideologies in Tanzania and in Zimbabwe.enDuke University Press00104124205121004900Time as Myth, Time as History in Afrophone Novels on Ujamaa (Tanzanian Socialism) and the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela (Zimbabwean Liberation War)2015-07-29Rettová, Alena2016-12-31Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-3698477
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This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose, and following the experimental phase back to realism in the recent works of some of the former literary experimentators. This trend is called and defined here as “neo-realism.” The motivation for this return to realism is found in the domains of aesthetics; didacticism; reception of literature; politics and economy; and philosophy. The primacy of aesthetic and philosophical reasons motivating the move to “neo-realism” is questioned. The article instead places emphasis on the political and social driving forces behind the Swahili “neo-realist” writing. While postcolonial authors insist on the empowerment of the periphery, the affirmation of alterity, and economic and social development, the experimental novel appears to work against these aims through its glorification of chaos, of pathological states of mind, dissolving values, collapsing causality, undermining temporal and spatial orientation, disrupting cognitive continuity and clarity, and subverting language. The complexity of the experimental novel is perceived as an obstacle to an implementation of literature’s declared political and social agendas, such as criticism of corruption; women empowerment; education about medical issues; and ecology.enIndiana University Press00345210205121004900Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction2015-06-19Rettová, Alena2016-11-01Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.02
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An epic of Mexico in Gĩkũyũ (Kikuyu) Languageapplication/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21393/1/Marua%20Ma%20Maitu.pdfenJC Press9780954396046205321004900700Marũa Ma MaitũGithiora, ChegeThiong'o, Ngũgĩ Wa2009BookNA
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Biography of Swahili scholar and writer from Lamu, Kenya with introduction by Chege Githiora.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21394/1/Waswifu%20Cover.pdfenJC Press978095439603920512052205321004900Waswifu wa Ahmed Sheikh NabhanySaid, AmiraGithiora, Chege2012otherAO
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This article discusses a little known branch of the African Diaspora: Afro-Mexicans, who make up the chronological third “root” of modern Mexico, after the indigenous Mexican and Spanish European. Documented presence of Africans in Mexico goes back to start of the colony of New Spain, as Mexico was then called, in mid-16th century. It is argued that the planting of an African root in Mexico is best understood as part of the transnational capitalism related to mining and sugar industry – slavery, and indentured labour for the building roads and railways of 19th century Mexico. The paper argues that the little recognition given to Afro-Mexicans within their own nation state today is partly a result of the official doctrine of mestizaje developed in the early 20th century which belies its founding in official racism of the colony introduced by influential intellectuals of Mexico.enAdonis and Abbey17442532205121004900700Afro-Mexicans: The Third Root of MexicoGithiora, Chege2011Journal Article/ReviewNA
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Contemporary African multilingualism is changing the languages and identities of urban communities. Sheng is a non-standard form of Kenyan Swahili closely associated with Nairobi’s urban youth, and it continues to evolve. Sheng involves much code-mixing within a Swahili matrix, placing it on a continuum of Kenyan ways of speaking. The code is also an outcome of language dynamics of a socially stratified, multilingual society in search of a modern identity. Research shows that the code has expanded its roles by moving into mainstream domains of use such as media, politics, and corporate advertising. It has also spread into peri-urban and rural Kenya as a result of the population dynamics, changed infrastructure and communications. This marks a step across an important threshold in its capacity to alter Kenya’s linguistic landscape in significant ways as it changes from a youth language into an urban vernacular.enTaylor and Francis13696815205121004900Sheng: The Expanding Domains of an Urban VernacularGithiora, Chege2016-01-21Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1117962
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Interview on SOAS Radio during UNESCO's World Radio Day. Published as: ‘Interview with Chege Githiora, Journal of African Cultural Studies'.text/htmlhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21398/1/abs/10.1080/13696815.2013.767191enTaylor and Francis136968152053210031004900Radio and Minority African LanguagesGithiora, Chege2012-02-13Journal Article/ReviewAOhttp://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2013.767191
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enThe Nairobi Process and the Foundations for the Future21004900The Nairobi Process and the Context for the Foundations for the Future.Githiora, ChegeConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enAfroXXI Conference21004900700African Contributions to Regional Identities in the Americas: The case of MexicoGithiora, ChegeConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enAnnual Conference of Chama Cha Kiswahili Cha Afrika Mashariki (CHAKAMA), Nairobi21004900Kukuza Fasihi ya Kiswahili Duniani kwa njia ya TafsiriGithiora, ChegeConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enResearch Institute Swahili Studies Eastern Africa International Conference21004900Kiswahili ng’ambo: Mbinu za kuikuza LughaGithiora, ChegeConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enAfrican Languages and Translation Sub-Saharan African Research Network21004900Issues and Challenges of Inter-African Language TranslationGithiora, ChegeConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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enUniversity of Hradec Králové22363274205121004900The Second Year of AsixoxeRettová, Alena2015Journal Article/ReviewNA
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enMkuki na Nyota Publishers9789987753383205121004900Existentialism and Swahili LiteratureRettová, AlenaBeck, Rose MarieKresse, Kai2016Book chapterNA
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enTaylor and Francis13696815205121004900Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special issue on African Philosophy.Rettová, Alena2016-03otherNA
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enTaylor and Francis13696815205121004900African philosophy as a radical critique [Editorial for Special Issue on African Philosophy]2016-02-15Rettová, Alena2016-03-01Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1159123
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enCambridge Scholars Publishing9781443897518205121004900Comparative Literature and the Position of the CriticRettová, AlenaLoveday, LeoParpală, Emilia2016-10-01Book chapterNA
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enOxford University Press9780199765096205121004900Novel in African Languages2012-12-01Rettová, AlenaGikandi, Simon2016-12-01Book chapterNA
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enRüdiger Köppe Verlag9783896457363205121004900From Mimesis to Mize. Philosophical Implications of Departures from Literary RealismRettová, AlenaVierke, ClarissaGreven, Katharina2016-09-04Book chapterNA
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Salikene Kulubali's poem written as a preface to Berehima Wulale's history of Ségou, Keko ye Foko ye, translated from Bambara into Czech.enPlav205121004900Předmluva.Rettová, Alena2007otherNA
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Translation of Husserl's work, Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie. Zweites Buch: Phänomenologische Untersuchungen zur Konstitution, into Czech.enOIKOYMENH205121004900Edmund Husserl. Ideje k čisté fenomenologii a fenomenologické filosofii. Volume II.Kohák, ErazimNovák, MatějRettová, AlenaUrban, Petr2006otherNA
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Translation of Husserl's work, Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie. Erstes Buch: Allgemeine Einführung in die reine Phänomenologie, into Czech.enOIKOYMENH205121004900Edmund Husserl. Ideje k čisté fenomenologii a fenomenologické filosofii. Volume I.Rettová, AlenaUrban, Petr2004otherNA
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Translation of the play Vernisáž into Swahili. Preface by Václav Havel. Afterword by Abdilatif Abdalla and Alena Rettová.enZdeněk Susa205121004900Václav Havel. Uzinduzi.Abdalla, AbdilatifRettová, Alena2005otherNA
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Large parts of the novel translated from Swahili into Czech.enLabyrint205121004900Euphrase Kezilahabi. Nagona.Rettová, Alena2003otherNA
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Parts of the novel translated from Yoruba into CzechenLabyrintAfrická čítanka [African Reader.], ed. Petr Komers.205121004900Lasunkanmi Tela. Ošuolale.Rettová (Nováková), Alena2003otherNA
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enWissenschaftsverlag MainzPhilosophie, Theologie, Literatur: Kubanische Beiträge aus den letzten 50 Jahren, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt.205121004900Oscar R. Martí. Der Beitrag der Kubaner außerhalb Kubas zur Philosophie der Gegenwart.Rettová, Alena1999otherNA
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enWissenschaftsverlag MainzPhilosophie, Theologie, Literatur: Kubanische Beiträge aus den letzten 50 Jahren, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt.205121004900Manuel Gayol Mecías. José Lezama Lima und die Suche nach den Ursprüngen.Rettová, Alena1999otherNA
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enWissenschaftsverlag MainzPhilosophie, Theologie, Literatur: Kubanische Beiträge aus den letzten 50 Jahren, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt.205121004900Ivette Fuentes de la Paz. Orígenes: Die Gruppe und die Zeitschrift.Rettová, Alena1999otherNA
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enWissenschaftsverlag MainzPhilosophie, Theologie, Literatur: Kubanische Beiträge aus den letzten 50 Jahren, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt205121004900Ivette Fuentes de la Paz. Die literarischen Zeitschriften als Zeugnis der Entwicklung der Literaturkritik und des Essays in KubaRettová, Alena1999otherNA
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enWissenschaftsverlag MainzPhilosophie, Theologie, Literatur: Kubanische Beiträge aus den letzten 50 Jahren, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt.205121004900Nydia Sorí González. Elemente der Volksreligiosiät in der kubanischen Literatur. Ein BerichtRettová, Alena1999otherNA
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enSouvislosti205121004900Jorge Luis Borges. Golem. (Translation of the poem from Spanish into Czech)Rettová, Alena2002otherNA
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enZdeněk Susa9788086057187205121004900Africká filozofie mezi lékaři a filozofyRettová (Nováková), AlenaNováková, Alena2002BookNA
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application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/23896/1/marten-valency-and-expectation-in-Bantu-applicatives.pdfenDe Gruyter2199174X210031004900Valency and expectation in Bantu applicatives2017-03-28Marten, LutzMous, Maarten2017-12-20Journal Article/ReviewVoRhttp://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0078
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This project offers a critical historical analysis of the all but forgotten eighteenth-century lifeworlds of the enslaved West Africans, who were brought largely from the ports of Senegambia as well as, to a lesser extent, Ouidah (in present-day Benin) and Cabinda (in today’s Angola) to colonial Louisiana. I argue that paying attention to one particular aspect of being in, transitioning and surviving these worlds can interrupt not only the stubborn formations of silence in the colonial archive but also the ways that ostensibly tongue-tied archive is continuously used to legitimise and loudly proclaim as ‘historical’ only certain kinds of subjectivity and life of the enslaved Africans. That aspect is gender, or more specifically, gender variance of the enslaved.
There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that, across the societies and historical periods that are of broader relevance here, a gender-variant person would be in many ways a living interruption to the imperial orders of human personhood, an interruption whose presence revealed certain less-obvious inconsistencies in those orders. I begin by (I) sketching out certain social, legal and political positionalities of gender-variant subjectivities in various Muslim empires of the day. I move, then (II), to an examination of numerous accounts of gender variance and transitioning in the spiritual, political and social configurations of the self in West Africa. First, I assess the gendered narratives of the Wolof, Serer and Fulɓe slave warriors in eighteenth-century Senegambia as well as Muslim slave armies that arose against them, many of which included individuals who were castrated in their youth. Second, I explore Bamana and Mandinka cosmologies, linguistic and social practices—replete with androgyny and non-gender-binary ways of being in the world. Third, I revisit colonial accounts of gender variance in and around Ouidah and Cabinda, including those relating to the Dahomey court as well as a more wide-ranging Angolan subjectivity known as chibado/chibanda/quimbanda. Next (III), I interrogate the colonial sources on the Middle Passage. These documents attempted to produce a clear gender-binary structure of the enslaved—a prerequisite for the colonial slave economy that was to be built upon the labour of their bodies. And yet, such attempts weren’t always successful. I examine some such telling failures. Finally (IV), I engage in a detailed re-examination of eighteenth-century Louisianan society, including the accounts of gender variance amongst its indigenous peoples. Against the backdrop of the colonial state’s racing, classing and gendering of its Louisianan subjects, I pay special attention to the ways the enslaved West Africans formed alliances across the imagined and real imperial fault- lines but, also, the ways they managed to retain certain aspects of their linguistic and religious autonomy. With respect to their gender diversity, however, the colonial archives are still largely silent. Instead, what little remains are fragments—modest insurrectionary details—that challenge the logics of pure binarism in cultural, religious and linguistic formations of gender. I examine, in particular, some telling remnants in Louisiana Creole and Louisiana Voodoo.enhttps://www.sss.ias.eduWeekly Seminar85004900F'Interruption'2017-05-08Hamzić, VanjaConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American archive of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has been described as an agonism (Kazanjian, 2016). On the one hand, as Saidiya Hartman suggests, what little remains of the official records of the lifeworlds of the enslaved is akin to 'a death sentence, a tomb, a display of the violated body' (Hartman, 2008) and their perusal—their coming to a 'second life' in academic studies—often constitutes an act of violence in its own right toward both the living and the dead. On the other hand, as this paper will argue, the absences and silences produced in the specifically Anglo-American science of archiving are often deliberate, and account for premeditated acts of oblivion and violent memory-making.
This paper critically interrogates archival violence through an ethnography of the records—and the lack thereof—of gender-variant slaves who were—or may have been—shipped from Africa to antebellum Louisiana. It accounts for the vestiges of their faith and timescales both before and after the horrors of the Middle Passage, as a novel meditation on both the archaeology and anthropology of time (cf. Gell, 2001).enBiennial Conference, Society for the Anthropology of Religion4000490080108500'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans'2017-05-15Hamzić, VanjaConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractNA
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Tanzanian novelist and philosopher Euphrase Kezilahabi strives to “dismantle the resemblance of language to the world” (1985: 216) through
challenging the fundamental philosophical dichotomy of subject and object. The result of this dismantling will be a new “language whose foundation is Being” (Kezilahabi 1991: 69; lugha ambayo msingi wake nikuwako). This is an expression of a new relationship between humanity and Being built on a holistic epistemology of experience and embodiment. Through “kuwako”, Kezilahabi expresses in Swahili the Heideggerian concept of Sein (Being). His adherence to Heidegger, however, puts him at risk of compromising the very foundation of his own philosophy: his continued critique of essentialism. This article argues that Kezilahabi salvages his concept of “kuwako” from these essentialist pitfalls precisely through his declared “destructive rather than deconstructive stand vis-àvis the Western philosophy of value and representation” (Kezilahabi 1985: 4). The destruction is implemented on the thematic level: a phase of “vurumai” (chaos) which destroys previous traditions of philosophy is staged in Nagona. However, translation is an even more powerful device to carry out this destruction: “kuwako” is not an innocent reiteration but a radical reformulation of Heidegger’s central philosophical concept, decisively informed by Kezilahabi’s lifelong propensity for existentialism.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25643/1/translation_as_destruction_kezilahabis_adaptation_of_heideggers_being.pdfenCambridge University Presshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/translation-as-destruction-kezilahabis-adaptation-of-heideggers-being/5C96769C08C0C32A2F5861671BD0EF38/core-reader0041977X49008640PTranslation as destruction: Kezilahabi's adaptation of Heidegger's 'Being'.2018-09-01Rettová, Alena2018-11-02Journal Article/ReviewVoRhttp://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X18001003
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enMimesishttp://mimesisinternational.com/World Philosophies in Dialogue: Perspectives and Challenges490080208640How ujamaa was told: The situatedness of philosophy and the impact of genre on the expression of ideas and values.Rettová, AlenaBook chapterNA
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enUnior Press9788867191703490080208640Czechoslovakia’s Swahilists: Elena Bertoncini-ZúbkováRettová, AlenaAiello, FlaviaGaudioso, Roberto2019-10Book chapterNA
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enRüdiger Köppe Verlaghttps://www.koeppe.de/index.phpFestschrift to Elena Bertoncini Zúbková490080208640La médialité et intermédialité du savoir en Afrique: le savoir philosophique entre tradition et modernité.Rettová, AlenaBook chapterNA
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application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26037/1/Archival%20Violence%20-%20Harvard%20talk.pdfenIGLP Conference: Law in Global Political Economy: Heterodoxy Now49008500Archival Violence:
Or, How to (Un)Archive the Lifeworlds of Eighteenth-Century Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans2018-06-02Hamzić, VanjaConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractAO
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application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26041/1/Interruption%20-%20Toronto%20talk.pdfenLaw and Society Association Annual Conference49008500Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana2018-06-08Hamzić, VanjaConference Paper/Proceeding/AbstractAO
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The scholarship that gets published in academic journals reflects and replicates particular conversations, and privileges authors schooled in certain methodologies. The friendships and collaborations between scholars of African literature based in different regions of the world are evident in the ongoing work and membership of the ALA, and make the organisation and its gatherings distinctive. Yet in order for publishing patterns to shift, we need to build not only better communication channels between north and south, but perhaps more crucially between the different intellectual traditions represented by literary scholars at universities on the African continent itself. Such a re-orientation will arrest and trouble assumptions that what skews publishing patterns is solely that Africa-based scholars are in need of (northern) resources and developmental assistance. Unequal access to resources clearly does influence the publishing patterns of literary scholarship, but this is only part of the challenge we face. Instead I argue we need to articulate explicit and ethical frameworks for enabling dialogue, and for evaluating knowledge production from different parts of the world. This needs to happen at all levels of knowledge production, but crucially at editorial and peer review level.enTaylor and Francishttps://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rala20/current216747364900Unsettling the air-conditioned room: journal work as ethical labour2018-06-14Coetzee, Carli2018-12-11Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2018.1501979
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enTaylor and Francishttps://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reia20/current194381174900Interrupted Flows and Delayed Transfers in Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire’s ‘One-way’ Translation of ‘Susu’2018-09-30Coetzee, Carli2018-12-11Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2018.1539301
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enTaylor and Francishttps://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjac20/current136968154900Reading in go-slow mode: appreciating Lindsey GreenSimms’s Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa2018-10-05Coetzee, Carli2018-11-22Journal Article/ReviewNAhttp://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2018.1538285
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0The article introduces the singer and poet from Lubumbashi, known under the artistic name of Sando Marteau, and presents some of the poet’s lyrics. These texts serve as the basis of an exposition of the variety of Swahili spoken in Katanga, “Lubumbashi Swahili” or “Katanga/Shaba Swahili”. This article presents several songs with translations into English and lists those linguistic features in them that are common in or even specific to "Lubumbashi Swahili". Sando Marteau’s songs show the broad spectrum of the linguistic continuum of “Lubumbashi Swahili”. While many songs remain close to “Swahili bora”, a variety of Congolese Swahili close to the East African “Standard Swahili”, other songs freely employ “Lubumbashi Swahili”. This distinction reflects the artist’s conscious choice; indeed, he opts for “Lubumbashi Swahili” especially in songs expressive of local cultural contexts. A further interesting feature of Sando Marteau’s Swahili is his idiosyncratic disjunctive orthography, different from how the languages is written in East Africa and in the DRC. In terms of lexicon, Sando Marteau’s Swahili avoids the practice of code-switching that is otherwise exceedingly common in the Katanga region. A proper understanding of Sando Marteau’s language facilitates an appreciation of the beauty and power of his poetry.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30219/3/Rettova%20Swahili%20and%20Swahili%20poetry%20in%20Lubumbashi.pdfenOriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences00448699490080208640Swahili and Swahili poetry in Lubumbashi: The language and lyrics of Sando Marteau2018-10-01Rettová, Alena2018-12-31Journal Article/ReviewAM
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enBrill978900436598849008640JIntegration and Identity of Swahili Speakers in England: Case Study of Swahili WomenHadjivayanis, IdaDeclich, Francesca2018-06-28Book chapterNAhttp://doi.org/10.1163/9789004365988
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In this book the author argues that a younger generation of South Africans is developing important and innovative ways of understanding South African pasts, and that challenge the narratives that have over the last decades been informed by notions of forgiveness and reconciliation. The author uses the image of history-rich blood to explore these approaches to intergenerational memory. Blood under the skin is a carrier of embodied and gendered histories and using this image, the chapters revisit older archives, as well as analyse contemporary South African cultural and literary forms. The emphasis on blood challenges the privileged status skin has had as explanatory category in thinking about identity, and instead emphasises intergenerational transfer and continuity. The argument is that a younger generation is disputing and debating the terms through which to understand contemporary South Africa, as well as for interpreting the legacies of the past that remain under the visible layer of skin. The chapters each concern blood: Mandela's prison cell as laboratory for producing bloodless freedom; the kinship relations created and resisted in accounts of Eugene de Kock in prison; Ruth First's concern with information leaks in her accounts of her time in prison; the first human-to-human heart transplant and its relation to racialised attempts to salvage white identity; the #Fallist moment; Abantu book festival; and activist scholarship and creative art works that use blood as trope for thinking about change and continuity.enBoydell and Brewerhttps://boydellandbrewer.com/written-under-the-skin-hb.html97818470122104900Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South AfricaCoetzee, Carli2019-01BookNAhttp://doi.org/10.1017/9781787444263
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Sleight of hand in manipulating the computation of results has become the new might for deciding who wins presidential elections. It appears that whoever controls the computation exercises a right to take advantage and win, and whoever loses or relinquishes control of the computation loses the election. As incumbents do not want to be identified with direct interference or rigging, hacking has become an alternative means. This raises a serious challenge for election management bodies (EMBs) and a new frontier for international observation. As electronic data management has become a key battleground, international observers cannot restrict their monitoring to the manual process alone. However, individual states may have data sensitivity concerns about granting electronic monitoring access to partisan international observers. Institutionalizing internationally agreed protocols that would allow real-time monitoring of EMBs’ computer systems by international observers or forensic audits of any stage of the electoral process to investigate interference, manipulation, hacking, and counter claims, is now a necessity. At the same time, the extent to which international monitors can be trusted to be non-partisan is of equal importance and could reduce forum shopping over time.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31681/1/Amoah%202019_Sleight_is_right_SOS%20Reseach%20Online_MA.pdfenOxford University Press000199094900803080408510Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections2019-08-16Amoah, Michael2019-09-26Journal Article/ReviewAMhttp://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adz023
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Nationalism and the nation state, globalization and Pan-Africanism are leading international relations concepts which have a particular relevance for Africa as an emerging economic power. This book examines the concept of nationalism, the nationalist mind-set or 'psychology of nationalism' and the role of the nation state in an era of globalism and globalization. The 'new' Pan-Africanism is a growing force, spurred by economic growth and Africa's rising global significance and recent years have seen the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Michael Amoah here investigates concepts of nationalism and the nation state through case studies of eight countries and discusses the impact of globalism in African states where Pan-Africanism is an increasingly significant factor in both domestic politics and international relations.application/pdfhttps://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31682/2/The%20New%20Pan-Africanism_cvr.pdfenI.B. Tauris9781784533311490080308510853085408560858086608670The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in AfricaAmoah, Michael2019-01-31BookVoRhttp://doi.org/10.5040/9781838600501
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