Critical Arts articles from July 1999

Critical Arts archives from July 1999

Alternative "journalisms," Social Movement computer networks and Africa.
July 1, 1999... This paper presents data illustrating how the use of international computer-network media for the circulation of journalism increases the reach and availability of non-hegemonic reportage about Africa. THE PAPER IS stimulated by a stream of...

Ubuntu in South Africa: a sociolinguistic perspective to a Pan-African concept.
July 1, 1999... During apartheid, language was used as an instrument of social control and division among the country's various ethnic groups. In the post-apartheid era, however, language seems to have become instrumental in the country's efforts to unite its...

In search of a real freedom: ubuntu and the media.
July 1, 1999... This transitional period in our history is the opportune time for all our institutions to take stock and ask hard, soul-searching and fundamental questions about who they are, which knowledge is crucial and important, what are the consequences...

The African renaissance: lessons from a predecessor (1).
July 1, 1999... THE WIDESPREAD INTEREST and intense private and public discussions generated by the ideal of a so-called `African renaissance' seems to justify the wisdom of the well known claim that `nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come'. It...

(Un)changing theoretical trends in the study of folklore in South Africa.
July 1, 1999... Abstract In this paper, it is argued that as an antidote to the current theoretical paralysis which seems to have gripped folklore studies in Southern Africa, folklorists should welcome the profound influence of contemporary cultural and...

African renaissance: a quest for (un)attainable past.
July 1, 1999... Abstract This paper investigates difficulties in the use of the African Renaissance in South Africa as the country makes its way into the 21st Century. In brief this paper reveals some hidden meanings of the idea in practice. The following...

Stuart Hall's (1997) Random Thoughts Provoked by the Conference "Identities, Democracy, Culture and Communication in Southern Africa," critical arts, 11(1/2), 1-16. (Comment).
July 1, 1999... SOCIAL CHANGE IN South Africa, particularly since the country's first democratic elections in 1994, has triggered various conferences which had been designed to deal with one or other crucial aspect of a society in transition (from oppressive...

A post modern voice for the new anthropology student.(Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation)
July 1, 1999... * Tomaselli, Keyan G. Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation. Hojbjerg, Denmark: Intervention Press 1996. reprinted 1999. ISBN 87-89825-05-5. Photographs. Bibliography. 318pp. IN HIS BOOK, Appropriating Images: The...