Critical Arts articles from July 1 2009

Critical Arts archives from July 1 2009

Thirty years of publishing.(Editorial)
July 1, 2009... The year 2009 is witness to Critical Arts' thirtieth year of publishing. It also witnesses the first time that three issues will be published annually. (Our inexperience in the early 1980s did see the intention to publish three to four issues a...

Pleasuring body parts: women and soap operas in Brazil.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2009... Abstract In this article I look at women's interpretations of one of the most popular forms of entertainment across Latin America, namely telenovelas (soap operas). In particular, I look at how they are incorporated into the everyday lives...

Broken strings: interdisciplinarity and /Xam oral literature.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2009... Abstract Long of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, the Lloyd-Bleek archive of /Xam narratives and accounts has recently engaged literary scholars and poets. Yet this engagement has produced few dedicated studies, and little...

Corruption, tribalism and democracy: coded messages in Wambali Mkandawire's popular songs in Malawi.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2009... Abstract Popular music in Malawi cites corruption and tribalism as amongst the major threats to democracy in the country. Corruption, which involves the plundering of national public resources by a few individuals, affects the distribution...

Innocent violence: social exclusion, identity, and the press in an African democracy.
July 1, 2009... Abstract The violent attacks on African immigrants and refugees in marginal settlements surrounding South Africa's largest cities in May 2008 occasioned a rush of mostly well-intentioned attempts by journalists, public intellectuals, and...

'Against extremity': Eben Venter's Horrelpoot (2006) and the quest for tolerance.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2009... And he said 'Anyone can run to excesses, It is easy to shoot past the mark, It is hard to stand firm in the middle.' From Canto XIII, Ezra Pound Abstract Eben Venter's (2006) novel Horrelpoot (Clubfoot) responds...

On the psychology of oppression: blame me on history!(Personal account)
July 1, 2009... The history I present here is a story of suppression of the existence of a people of which I am part; their memory and history. These are my personal recollections about the Ndebele people in post-colonial Zimbabwe, from 1980 until the present...

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? [But who will guard the guards themselves?].(Viewpoint essay)
July 1, 2009... Juvenal had adultery in mind when he wrote that, but I use it in a Zimbabwean context where the distinction between those who administer the law and those who break it, has become blurred. Do not underestimate the guilt that runs through...

The man in flames.(Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave)
July 1, 2009... He died in Johannesburg while working there. Please accept his spirit. Let it rest in peace. These are sacred words, words that slice into your person, words that crash the boundaries between people and humanity in general. These are words...

Xenophobia in South Africa: revisiting Tutu's handwriting on the wall?(Desmond Tutu)
July 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This picture and the posturing of the policemen is apt in pinpointing the exact malaise of 'xenophobic attitudes' and inherent resentment amongst some members of South African communities. For some, it is not a...

Encountering modernity: twentieth-century South African cinemas and South African national cinema.(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Keyan Tomaselli. 2006. Encountering modernity: twentieth-century South African cinemas. Pretoria: Unisa Press/Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers. (ISBN 978-90-5170-886-8, 183 pp.) Jacqueline Maingard. 2007. South African national cinema....