Critical Arts articles from January 1999

Critical Arts archives from January 1999

Cultural studies in Africa: positioning difference.
January 1, 1999... DOES AN AFRICAN cultural studies exist? If so, is it a unified field of study? What links does this domain / domains--or perspectives within it/them--have with the First and Second World metropoles? A perusal of the World Wide Web identifies an...

African cultural studies, cultural studies in Africa: how to make a useful difference.
January 1, 1999... WHILE THE ANTHROPOLOGIST thinks of the habits, customs and material technologies of a given community when the notion of culture is evoked, the ordinary person has in mind education and taste. S/he would consider as cultured someone who...

Manthia Diawara's Rouch in Reverse: an interstitial perspective.
January 1, 1999... MORE THAN FORTY years ago Jean Rouch more or less initiated a form of ethnographic cinematography called cinema verite whose goal was to let the cinematic subjects of ethnographic films speak for themselves. He wanted to make films about...

Miscast: the place of the museum in negotiating the Bushman past and present.
January 1, 1999... THERE ARE TWO museums in South Africa competing for representation and commentary on `who are the Bushmen?'. The South African Museum and the South African National Gallery, situated across from each other in Cape Town's Company Gardens,...

Cultural studies and development trends in the "New South Africa": some critical perspectives.
January 1, 1999... THIS ARTICLE HAS a three-fold purpose: First, it reviews the key concerns contained in Keyan Tomaselli's Introduction entitled "African Cultural Studies and Global Academic Hegemony". Second, as an ancillary to Tomaselli's essay, this paper...

African Renaissance and the revitalization of the public sphere.
January 1, 1999... The ideas expressed in this review were triggered by the African Renaissance symposium hosted by Sankofa Centre for the African Renaissance 26-29 March 1999. The Symposium was aimed amongst other things, to foster a cross fertilisation of ideas...

Strategic essentialism and the African Renaissance.
January 1, 1999... Introduction The African Renaissance Cultural Festival/Symposium premiered on the 26th March 1999, at the Natal Playhouse, KwaZulu-Natal, with an evening of cultural celebration and cerebration. This auspicious occasion incorporated...