Critical Arts articles from January 2002

Critical Arts archives from January 2002

For sale--peace of mind: (neo-) colonial discourse and the commodification of Third World poverty in World Vision's `telethons'.
January 1, 2002... Abstract World Vision Canada's television fundraising appeals construct Canadian sponsor identity in relation to a `needy' `Third World' other. These programmes utilise structures of identification reminiscent of earlier forms of colonial...

Rethinking Sol Plaatje's attitudes to class, empire, and gender.(African National Congress )
January 1, 2002... Sol Plaatje lived by the written word. He was a teacher... a messenger... a court interpreter... journalist, a founder of newspapers.... He was the first black South African novelist... Plaatje lived and died at the crucial intersection of...

Under fire: introduction.(introduction to new section)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... As a means to engage the rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights abuses in a variety of other regions across the world, we present the...

Letters from the Palestinian Ghetto: 8-13th March 2002.
January 1, 2002... 1 The principle of non-simultaneity. It is wonderful to hear children laugh down the stairs of our building. After months in which all sounds were banished from the place, save for the imagined and remembered sounds of shelling from the...

A man called Wind.(Zimbabwe)
January 1, 2002... 1 May 2002 Dear Family and Friends, Last Saturday morning a war veteran named Wind, accompanied by a bunch of young men, arrived on my farm in the morning. He gave my tenants and their young children two days to get off the farm and...

Azanian filmmaking: creating an African present.
January 1, 2002... "In this world through which I travel I am endlessly creating myself." --Frantz Fanon (1965) Perhaps it is because I am young. I fear my own naivete. My eyes are too big and I talk too much. Am too open with my ideas and my stories. At...

Two vignettes a body.(Palestinian-Israeli conflict)
January 1, 2002... Zionism transported me. In 1985, I left Johannesburg to take up residence in a city on the periphery of Tel Aviv. I expected, in time, to rewrite the rupture of longing as the rapture of belonging: for I had been transported, carried away by...

Out of America: a black man confronts Africa.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Keith B. Richburg New York: Basic books, 1997 reprinted 1998, pp266. Thriving on chaos and pain: why Africa? A re-appraisal Keith Richburg's Out of America: A black man confronts Africa is a very powerful and unique book which raises...

Images of Yesteryear: filmmaking in Central Africa.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Louis Nell Harare, Zimbabwe: Harper Collins (Zimbabwe) Ltd., 1988. The title of Louis Nell's memoir, Images of Yesteryear, is very appropriate. Almost the entire book comprises a series of anecdotes recollected with visual clarity, about...