Critical Arts articles from July 2008

Critical Arts archives from July 2008

Having it both ways: balancing market and political interests at a South African daily newspaper.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Abstract The process of democratic transition in South Africa has brought many changes to the national political economic context within which media companies operate. These changes have also brought challenges for South African media...

Contesting authenticities: the emergence of local video production in Ghana.(Play)(Report)
July 1, 2008... Abstract In this article I offer a historical reading of the early years of video production in Ghana between roughly 1987 and 1992, a period characterised by radical transformation put in motion by developments generally associated with...

Culture, nation and social cohesion: a scrutiny of revolutionary Cuba.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Abstract During the 1960s era and beyond, official Cuban cultural thinking sought to address, among many other issues, the colonial legacy of cultural partition and cultural subjugation. It is advanced in this article that the revolution...

New directions in/Xam studies: some of the implications of Andrew Bank's Bushmen in a Victorian world: the remarkable story of the Bleek-Lloyd collection of Bushman folklore.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... Abstract Interest in the Bleek and Lloyd archive of /Xam materials continues to grow each year. This has resulted in a proliferation of writing on the subject. Several major preoccupations can be discerned in this body of writing: these...

Poles apart: mapping the field of arts journalism in South Africa.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Abstract A recent research report by the Media Monitoring Project (2006) into South African arts journalism confirms worrying popular observations relating to commodification and a lack of focus, purpose and status since the demise of...

Emerging communities, emerging media: the case of a Zimbabwean nurse in the British Big Brother show.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Abstract Research on media and diasporic communities has often either focused on representations of ethnic minorities in mainstream media or looked at the use of media by diasporic communities. By exclusively focusing on media coverage,...

'Cooeing to the natives': Thomas Baines' encounters with the Other on the North Australian Expedition, 1855-1857.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... Abstract In 1855, both the British government and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) commissioned the Australian explorer Augustus Charles Gregory to undertake an ambitious exploration of Australia's interior. Thomas Baines, artist and...

Sex, lies/truth and literary history: a review of Louise Bethlehem's Skin tight: apartheid, literary culture and its aftermath.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Louise Bethlehem. 2006. Skin tight: apartheid, literary culture and its aftermath. Pretoria: UNISA Press and Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV. (ISBN: 1-86888-408-2, 145pp.) This is not an easy read. The language is opaque: A...

Occasion for reflection.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... Michael Chapman's review of my volume Skin tight: apartheid literary culture and its aftermath (Unisa/Brill 2006) provides an interesting occasion for self-reflection. My emphasis here does not fall on the question of whether or not I am able...