Critical Arts articles from July 2000

Critical Arts archives from July 2000

Identity and ethnicity through multiple windows. (Introduction).(Editorial)
July 1, 2000... This issue concludes the series of four themes relating to issues of identity and ethnicity within the broad matrix of what might be considered cultural studies in Africa. The article by Ntongela Masilela on the work of South African...

That rare and random tribe: Albino identity in South Africa.
July 1, 2000... I am a product of a love union between an Albino, Coloured man and a white woman. I identify as mixed race, and more recently Coloured. (1) I grew up in Canada and am writing this from South Africa, where I now live. As much as this is an essay...

Thelma Gutsche: a great South African film scholar.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2000... While I was doing my post-doctoral studies in communication systems in West Berlin in the late 1980s, it was a marvellous joy to discover Thelma Gutsche's remarkable book, The History and Social Significance of Motion Pictures in South Africa...

The snake in the sky: tornadoes in clay and local narrative in the Hogsback-Alice area.(South Africa)
July 1, 2000... This study takes as its starting point an event that occurred on the morning of December 15 1998, in Hogsback. Hogsback is a small mountaintop community in the Amatola mountains in the Eastern Cape. Many of the black people who work for the...

A postcolonial reading of mural art in South Africa.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2000... Introduction Most residents of South Africa's larger cities will, when prompted, immediately recall having noticed one or more wall paintings, or murals, somewhere in town. Fifteen years ago, it can be ascertained, the response to such a...

Popular history; cultural memory.(South Africa)
July 1, 2000... History's critics, be it admitted, have far more to say than that suggested by Claudia Braude in the cynical lead-line to her review of Negotiating the Past: "South African academics and artists have discovered the memory market, a thriving...

To whom it may concern: or, is anyone concerned? (1) The Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoan tape archive, 1987-1993.
July 1, 2000... Abstract Based on transcribed and translated tapes from political meetings three years pre- and three years post-Independence in Namibia, this paper examines processes of discourse development during an unprecedented period of challenge...

Voicing the Text: South African Oral Poetry and Performance.
July 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The wide-ranging and critical research, together with the incisiveness and generosity with which he has assessed the value of the work of others, make Duncan Brown's book a welcome and cogent argument for that symbiotic...

The Idiom of Love: Love Poetry from the Early Sonnets to the Seventeenth Century.
July 1, 2000... My early suspicion that Judy Sproxton's book is a convenient way of recycling lecture notes met with little to counteract it. No doubt she is a very compelling lecturer on Sixteenth and Seventeenth English and French literatures, but this has...

Art and the Romans.
July 1, 2000... In Art and the Romans, Harward aims to explore the attitudes of ancient Romans to their art as well as to offer a selective survey of the major art forms of the Roman world. In a volume that also includes chapters on sculpture, painting,...

Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects.
July 1, 2000... The title of David Gauntlett's book, Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences and Effects, sums up accurately what the book does. It provides a comprehensive analysis of television effects research, from the early studies which...