Harry Sewlall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 163683 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harry Sewlall |
| NOMBRES | Harry |
| APELLIDO | Sewlall |
| FIRMA | SEWLALL H |
| AFILIACIONES | North-West University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis , Race, Racism, and the South African Nexus
TIME magazine film critic Stephanie Zacharek avers: “ ... when Luhrmann first announced he was making an Elvis movie, back in 2014, the question might have been ‘Why now?’ But in 2022— especially now that we’ve seen how politically, racially, and culturally fractured our nation could become—the many faces of Elvis form a sun mosaic that raises more questions than it answers” (74). Using Luhrmann’s film as my launch pad, I explore the problematics…
“Race”, Language and Xenophobia in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”
Chinua Achebe’s animus against the creator of Heart of Darkness did not simply end with the charge of racism but extended to anti-Semitism and xenophobia as well. The term “xenophobia”, which is imbricated in the dialectics of race and language, features strongly in the current politics of diaspora and identity. Conventional scholarship on Conrad’s short fiction “Amy Foster” has followed two predominant strands, namely, the extreme loneliness of …
Cape Town, its Musical Spatiality and Apartheid
Cape Town, apart from its famed New Year festive season jamboree once known by the moniker “Coon Carnival”, is arguably the most musical city in South Africa due in no small measure to its exposure to international cultural currents flowing from across the seas to its renowned harbour. Drawing on musical influences from Africa and the USA, the Mother City has given birth to some of South Africa's most gifted musicians who emerged out of the grim …
Zakes Mda’s Non-Human Characters in the Economy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Through the juxtaposition of the real and the unreal, Zakes Mda’s novels attest to an investment in indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) which are imbricated in local epistemologies, iconographies and cosmologies. A significant part of Mda’s fictional landscape features non-human characters interacting with humans in a manner that defies logic, but is consonant with the writer’s worldview on the human/animal connection. This article traces the vari…
The Postcolonial Female “Bildung” in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes
This article positions itself in the literary representations of the convergence of slavery, migration, race, gender, growth, and the African identity in a neo-slave narrative. It concerns itself with the examination of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes as a female bildungsroman written from a postcolonial perspective. The novel centers on the growth and experiences of the female protagonist, Aminata Diallo, an African slave who eventually beco…
“The Grain of the Voice”
Simon Frith has stated that the aim of even serious rock musicians is, in short, to be popular (Frith 1983: 176). But popularity, Frith continues, “is taken to mean occupying a particular place in the community rather than just accumulating large record sales. The tensions emerge when these two goals are thought, for whatever reasons, to be incompatible” (Frith 1983: 176). Elvis's epoch-making return to the stage in 1968 had all the hallmarks of …
Joseph Conrad in the Popular Imaginary
In his defining work The Great Tradition (1948), F.R. Leavis declared, with characteristic asperity, that apart from Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad, “there are no novelists in English worth reading” (Leavis [1948]1962: 9). Notwithstanding Conrad's canonisation in the pantheon of the “great tradition” of English literature, he has been a controversial figure, first, in his native country Poland, and subsequently in parts …
“Image, Music, Text”
Peter Whitmer has written that around the world the names Jesus, Coke and Elvis are the “only three words that need no translation to convey their meaning” (Whitmer 1996: x). Even in a multicultural South Africa, in the year 2008, the image of an Elvis impersonator was used to market a series of rollerball pens for no other reason than they come in a variety of colours redolent of the ersatz emeralds and sapphires on the singer's jumpsuit (Sunday…
“Portmanteau biota” and Ecofeminist Interventions in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the first African woman, and the first person ever to win the award for environmental activism, was asked by Time magazine's Stephan Faris, “What's the world's biggest challenge?”, she replied: “The environment. We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way.... And that is partly the reason why we have conflict” (Faris 2004: 4). Conflict over natural resources is very much at the centre of…
Border crossings
In The whale caller, published in 2005, Mda has cast his net, literally as it were, off the Cape coast for his thematic framework. Although the title of his fifth novel accords centre stage to its human protagonist, the presence of the southern right whale, christened Sharisha by the whale caller, vies for equal space with the protagonist and his mistress Saluni. Marshalling the precepts of Jacques Derrida, Victor Turner, and not least of all Col…
Cannibalism in the colonial imaginary
Together with terms such as “savage”, “child” and “simpleton”, the word “cannibal” has played a significant role in the lexicon of colonial discourse as a signifier of alterity. Using Peter Hulme's thesis on the origin of the term “cannibal” as an anchor, this essay explores the fraught relationship between anthropophagy and the discourses surrounding the topic of cannibalism. As a point of articulation, I shall examine the short story “Falk” by …
The postcolonial space in Joseph Conrad
That Conrad continues to exert considerable influence on postcolonial discourse is unreservedly acknowledged today. Positing the notion of a “postcolonial space”, this article proposes to explore the problematic of racial, cultural and sexual identity in Conrad's first two novels, Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), treated dismissively by early critics of Conrad's work. The concept of a postc…
Deconstructing Empire in Joseph Conrad and Zakes Mda
The publication of Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness in 2000, almost a century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is not only redolent of its precursor in a titular sense, but also in its contingent and contiguous themes. Viewed from a postcolonial/postmodem perspective, both texts may be regarded as subversive offerings which disrupt colonial configurations of subjectivity. The degree to which Conrad and Mda succeed in deconstructing empire depend…
Deconstructing Empire in Joseph Conrad and Zakes Mda
The publication of Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness in 2000, almost a century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is not only redolent of its precursor in a titular sense, but also in its contingent and contiguous themes. Viewed from a postcolonial/postmodem perspective, both texts may be regarded as subversive offerings which disrupt colonial configurations of subjectivity. The degree to which Conrad and Mda succeed in deconstructing empire depend…
Border crossings
In The whale caller, published in 2005, Mda has cast his net, literally as it were, off the Cape coast for his thematic framework. Although the title of his fifth novel accords centre stage to its human protagonist, the presence of the southern right whale, christened Sharisha by the whale caller, vies for equal space with the protagonist and his mistress Saluni. Marshalling the precepts of Jacques Derrida, Victor Turner, and not least of all Col…
The postcolonial space in Joseph Conrad
That Conrad continues to exert considerable influence on postcolonial discourse is unreservedly acknowledged today. Positing the notion of a “postcolonial space”, this article proposes to explore the problematic of racial, cultural and sexual identity in Conrad's first two novels, Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), treated dismissively by early critics of Conrad's work. The concept of a postc…
Deconstructing Empire in Joseph Conrad and Zakes Mda
The publication of Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness in 2000, almost a century after Conrad's Heart of Darkness, is not only redolent of its precursor in a titular sense, but also in its contingent and contiguous themes. Viewed from a postcolonial/postmodem perspective, both texts may be regarded as subversive offerings which disrupt colonial configurations of subjectivity. The degree to which Conrad and Mda succeed in deconstructing empire depend…
Cannibalism in the colonial imaginary
Together with terms such as “savage”, “child” and “simpleton”, the word “cannibal” has played a significant role in the lexicon of colonial discourse as a signifier of alterity. Using Peter Hulme's thesis on the origin of the term “cannibal” as an anchor, this essay explores the fraught relationship between anthropophagy and the discourses surrounding the topic of cannibalism. As a point of articulation, I shall examine the short story “Falk” by …
“Portmanteau biota” and Ecofeminist Interventions in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the first African woman, and the first person ever to win the award for environmental activism, was asked by Time magazine's Stephan Faris, “What's the world's biggest challenge?”, she replied: “The environment. We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way.... And that is partly the reason why we have conflict” (Faris 2004: 4). Conflict over natural resources is very much at the centre of…
Border crossings
In The whale caller, published in 2005, Mda has cast his net, literally as it were, off the Cape coast for his thematic framework. Although the title of his fifth novel accords centre stage to its human protagonist, the presence of the southern right whale, christened Sharisha by the whale caller, vies for equal space with the protagonist and his mistress Saluni. Marshalling the precepts of Jacques Derrida, Victor Turner, and not least of all Col…
“Image, Music, Text”
Peter Whitmer has written that around the world the names Jesus, Coke and Elvis are the “only three words that need no translation to convey their meaning” (Whitmer 1996: x). Even in a multicultural South Africa, in the year 2008, the image of an Elvis impersonator was used to market a series of rollerball pens for no other reason than they come in a variety of colours redolent of the ersatz emeralds and sapphires on the singer's jumpsuit (Sunday…
Joseph Conrad in the Popular Imaginary
In his defining work The Great Tradition (1948), F.R. Leavis declared, with characteristic asperity, that apart from Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad, “there are no novelists in English worth reading” (Leavis [1948]1962: 9). Notwithstanding Conrad's canonisation in the pantheon of the “great tradition” of English literature, he has been a controversial figure, first, in his native country Poland, and subsequently in parts …
“The Grain of the Voice”
Simon Frith has stated that the aim of even serious rock musicians is, in short, to be popular (Frith 1983: 176). But popularity, Frith continues, “is taken to mean occupying a particular place in the community rather than just accumulating large record sales. The tensions emerge when these two goals are thought, for whatever reasons, to be incompatible” (Frith 1983: 176). Elvis's epoch-making return to the stage in 1968 had all the hallmarks of …
The Postcolonial Female “Bildung” in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes
This article positions itself in the literary representations of the convergence of slavery, migration, race, gender, growth, and the African identity in a neo-slave narrative. It concerns itself with the examination of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes as a female bildungsroman written from a postcolonial perspective. The novel centers on the growth and experiences of the female protagonist, Aminata Diallo, an African slave who eventually beco…
Cape Town, its Musical Spatiality and Apartheid
Cape Town, apart from its famed New Year festive season jamboree once known by the moniker “Coon Carnival”, is arguably the most musical city in South Africa due in no small measure to its exposure to international cultural currents flowing from across the seas to its renowned harbour. Drawing on musical influences from Africa and the USA, the Mother City has given birth to some of South Africa's most gifted musicians who emerged out of the grim …
Zakes Mda’s Non-Human Characters in the Economy of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Through the juxtaposition of the real and the unreal, Zakes Mda’s novels attest to an investment in indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) which are imbricated in local epistemologies, iconographies and cosmologies. A significant part of Mda’s fictional landscape features non-human characters interacting with humans in a manner that defies logic, but is consonant with the writer’s worldview on the human/animal connection. This article traces the vari…
“Race”, Language and Xenophobia in Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”
Chinua Achebe’s animus against the creator of Heart of Darkness did not simply end with the charge of racism but extended to anti-Semitism and xenophobia as well. The term “xenophobia”, which is imbricated in the dialectics of race and language, features strongly in the current politics of diaspora and identity. Conventional scholarship on Conrad’s short fiction “Amy Foster” has followed two predominant strands, namely, the extreme loneliness of …
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis , Race, Racism, and the South African Nexus
TIME magazine film critic Stephanie Zacharek avers: “ ... when Luhrmann first announced he was making an Elvis movie, back in 2014, the question might have been ‘Why now?’ But in 2022— especially now that we’ve seen how politically, racially, and culturally fractured our nation could become—the many faces of Elvis form a sun mosaic that raises more questions than it answers” (74). Using Luhrmann’s film as my launch pad, I explore the problematics…
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