D C Byrne
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 57622 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D C Byrne |
| NOMBRES | D C |
| APELLIDO | Byrne |
| FIRMA | BYRNE D C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4436-6632 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Welcome to our Final Issue for 2025
Jackals with muddy whiskers
Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature
Knowledge Born in the Struggle”
Intimate Selves
This article uses poetic inquiry to explore the author's experiences of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which brought about a State of Disaster in South Africa from 26 March 2020 to 5 April 2022. The author had, before the pandemic, been used to going to an office and interacting with colleagues every day, and was not used to spending long periods of time alone. The poetry presented in this article was written during, and about, time the author spe…
‘Queer Villainy’
Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) are popularly believed to be the exclusive preserve of the heterosexual population. This assumption underpins the fact that policy and interventions aimed at reducing DVA often focus on remediating men’s behaviour so that they become less violent towards women. Such views exclude the fact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people also experience DVA. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the l…
Feminist Encounters with Situated Knowledges of Gender and Love
Editorial: Feminist Encounters with Situated Knowledges of Gender and Love
On the Edge
A roundtable discussion featuring Serena Petrella, Associate Professor of Sociology, Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University, Canada; Amanda Gouws, SARChI Chair in Gender Politics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and Danai Mupotsa, Senior Lecturer in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Hosted by Dr Wernmei Yong Ade (Mei), formerly from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore…
Water in the Anthropocene
Cape Town’s drought (2015-2017) focused attention on humans’ dependency on water and the irreversibility of environmental degradation in South Africa in the Anthropocene. Water is symbolically linked to femininity as fluid, connected to the moon and tides, generative and sustaining. This article explores South African women poets’ diverse responses to water, focusing on Allison Claire Hoskins, Toni Stuart, Koleka Putuma, Wilma Stockenström and Ga…
Introduction to the Special Issue of Feminist Encounters on ‘Gender and the Anthropocene’
Studies in Culture and Politics is motivated by the need to craft a gendered, and specifically intersectional feminist, response to the Anthropocene. The term was coined in 2000 by scientists
“Policing Borders”
Borders between states are spaces of aggression and anxiety about ownership, inclusion, exclusion and group identity, and they are often reinforced by shows of force that can yield to violence. Apartheid in South Africa was primarily and explicitly an attempt at controlling who could occupy space. The erection and maintenance of borders within the country, between spaces, became more aggressive and rigid as the era progressed and it became appare…
Two Gates Into Jane Hirshfield’s Poetry
Despite Jane Hirshfield’s having published 11 books of poetry and having received six awards for poetry, there is a dearth of published criticism on her work. Most of the existing literature consists of online tributes and interviews with the poet, with barely any scholarly consideration. In light of this academic lacuna, we offer a two-fold framework for reading and exploring her poetry. Our foci are the expression of Zen Buddhism and feminist c…
Living Archives and the Project of Poetry Recurriculation in South Africa
This article, dedicated to the memory of the late Poet Laureate of South Africa and patron of the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP), Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile, situates itself within Kgositsile's struggle for cultural liberation through the arts and education. It is also located within the current South African project of decolonising the curriculum. The call to decolonise existing educational curricula—to transform colonial curricula thr…
Why ‘Southern Feminisms’
The current special issue of Agenda on ‘Southern Feminisms’ was catalysed by an ongoing need to disinvest from feminist theory and thinking set by the Global North (Mohanty, 1986; 2002). Still more
In memoriam
In memoriam: Karen Isabel Scherzinger, 4 February 1962–26 May 2019." Scrutiny2, 23(2-3), pp. 2–3
Feminism at the margins
The practice of virginity testing in southern Africa has caused a conflict between advocates of culture and proponents of universal human rights. Recently, the ‘virginity bursaries’, also known as the ‘maiden bursaries’, caused an outcry from proponents of universal human rights, who declared the criterion (virginity testing) used for bursaries unlawful, discriminatory and unconstitutional. On the other side of the debate, cultural relativists de…
Perceptions of Gender-Based Violence Among University Staff
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the greatest social issues affecting South Africa, and universities are no exception. This article reports preliminary results of a pilot study conducted at the University of South Africa (Unisa). The study aimed to ascertain perceptions of GBV among university staff. A range of frequency-seeking questions aimed at exploring awareness, experiences, and reflections about solutions to GBV were posed to selected…
Stealing the fire”
The twenty-first century has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of poetry being written and published by South African women writers. Unfortunately, this has not been matched by a corresponding increase in critical responses. This article attempts to address this situation through a discussion of the linguistic themes and strategies found in South African women’s poetry, seen within the artistic and socio-political context of post-apartheid S…
An interview with Malika Ndlovu
Dressed for the Part
Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy presents a dystopia in which young people from less privileged socio-economic districts are sacrificed in murderous “games” in order to reinforce state power. Katniss Everdeen emerges from this context of oppression as the leader of a rebellion against centralised state domination. The series seems to flout well-established conventions of heroic fantasy, in which, traditionally, a male hero develops towards …
Barbarism in higher education
(2015). Barbarism in higher education: once upon a time in a university. Scrutiny2: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 81-83
Only connect”
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDeirdre ByrneDeirdre Byrne is a Professor of English Studies and the Head of the Institute for Gender Studies at Unisa. She is the editor of scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa and one of the co-authors of Foundations in English literary studies (published by Oxford University Press). She has published articles on the writing of Ursula K le Guin; science fiction and fantasy; gender an…
Light” verse
Samuel Delany writes difference
This article explores the intersection of transgressive sexual desire, literary convention and the boundaries of style in the Epilogue to Samuel Delany's science fiction masterpiece, Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand (1986). My argument has three parts. First, I discuss themes of gender and transgression in Delany's autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water (1988). Second, I examine Delany's subversion of the codes of Romantic poetry in th…
Disasters, disasters
Why ‘Southern Feminisms’
The current special issue of Agenda on ‘Southern Feminisms’ was catalysed by an ongoing need to disinvest from feminist theory and thinking set by the Global North (Mohanty, 1986; 2002). Still more
Knowledge Born in the Struggle”
Feminism at the margins
The practice of virginity testing in southern Africa has caused a conflict between advocates of culture and proponents of universal human rights. Recently, the ‘virginity bursaries’, also known as the ‘maiden bursaries’, caused an outcry from proponents of universal human rights, who declared the criterion (virginity testing) used for bursaries unlawful, discriminatory and unconstitutional. On the other side of the debate, cultural relativists de…
Perceptions of Gender-Based Violence Among University Staff
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the greatest social issues affecting South Africa, and universities are no exception. This article reports preliminary results of a pilot study conducted at the University of South Africa (Unisa). The study aimed to ascertain perceptions of GBV among university staff. A range of frequency-seeking questions aimed at exploring awareness, experiences, and reflections about solutions to GBV were posed to selected…
Stealing the fire”
The twenty-first century has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of poetry being written and published by South African women writers. Unfortunately, this has not been matched by a corresponding increase in critical responses. This article attempts to address this situation through a discussion of the linguistic themes and strategies found in South African women’s poetry, seen within the artistic and socio-political context of post-apartheid S…
An interview with Malika Ndlovu
Disasters, disasters
The meaning(s) of Frankenstein
This article has a twofold intention. On the one hand it aims to recapitulate and evaluate many of the possible meanings ascribed to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. These meanings are seen as complementary and not as comparable on a scale of validity or accuracy. On the other, its target is the process of literary interpretation itself, which is viewed as politically inscribed within the contest of meaning‐making that takes place in departments of l…
What does a ‘postcolonial’ teacher need
Research in a funding jungle
Disasters, disasters
What can still be said about South African literature
Samuel Delany writes difference
This article explores the intersection of transgressive sexual desire, literary convention and the boundaries of style in the Epilogue to Samuel Delany's science fiction masterpiece, Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand (1986). My argument has three parts. First, I discuss themes of gender and transgression in Delany's autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water (1988). Second, I examine Delany's subversion of the codes of Romantic poetry in th…
Light” verse
Only connect”
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDeirdre ByrneDeirdre Byrne is a Professor of English Studies and the Head of the Institute for Gender Studies at Unisa. She is the editor of scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa and one of the co-authors of Foundations in English literary studies (published by Oxford University Press). She has published articles on the writing of Ursula K le Guin; science fiction and fantasy; gender an…
Dressed for the Part
Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy presents a dystopia in which young people from less privileged socio-economic districts are sacrificed in murderous “games” in order to reinforce state power. Katniss Everdeen emerges from this context of oppression as the leader of a rebellion against centralised state domination. The series seems to flout well-established conventions of heroic fantasy, in which, traditionally, a male hero develops towards …
Barbarism in higher education
(2015). Barbarism in higher education: once upon a time in a university. Scrutiny2: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 81-83
Stealing the fire”
The twenty-first century has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of poetry being written and published by South African women writers. Unfortunately, this has not been matched by a corresponding increase in critical responses. This article attempts to address this situation through a discussion of the linguistic themes and strategies found in South African women’s poetry, seen within the artistic and socio-political context of post-apartheid S…
An interview with Malika Ndlovu
In memoriam
In memoriam: Karen Isabel Scherzinger, 4 February 1962–26 May 2019." Scrutiny2, 23(2-3), pp. 2–3
Feminism at the margins
The practice of virginity testing in southern Africa has caused a conflict between advocates of culture and proponents of universal human rights. Recently, the ‘virginity bursaries’, also known as the ‘maiden bursaries’, caused an outcry from proponents of universal human rights, who declared the criterion (virginity testing) used for bursaries unlawful, discriminatory and unconstitutional. On the other side of the debate, cultural relativists de…
Perceptions of Gender-Based Violence Among University Staff
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the greatest social issues affecting South Africa, and universities are no exception. This article reports preliminary results of a pilot study conducted at the University of South Africa (Unisa). The study aimed to ascertain perceptions of GBV among university staff. A range of frequency-seeking questions aimed at exploring awareness, experiences, and reflections about solutions to GBV were posed to selected…
Why ‘Southern Feminisms’
The current special issue of Agenda on ‘Southern Feminisms’ was catalysed by an ongoing need to disinvest from feminist theory and thinking set by the Global North (Mohanty, 1986; 2002). Still more
“Policing Borders”
Borders between states are spaces of aggression and anxiety about ownership, inclusion, exclusion and group identity, and they are often reinforced by shows of force that can yield to violence. Apartheid in South Africa was primarily and explicitly an attempt at controlling who could occupy space. The erection and maintenance of borders within the country, between spaces, became more aggressive and rigid as the era progressed and it became appare…
Two Gates Into Jane Hirshfield’s Poetry
Despite Jane Hirshfield’s having published 11 books of poetry and having received six awards for poetry, there is a dearth of published criticism on her work. Most of the existing literature consists of online tributes and interviews with the poet, with barely any scholarly consideration. In light of this academic lacuna, we offer a two-fold framework for reading and exploring her poetry. Our foci are the expression of Zen Buddhism and feminist c…
Living Archives and the Project of Poetry Recurriculation in South Africa
This article, dedicated to the memory of the late Poet Laureate of South Africa and patron of the South African Poetry Project (ZAPP), Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile, situates itself within Kgositsile's struggle for cultural liberation through the arts and education. It is also located within the current South African project of decolonising the curriculum. The call to decolonise existing educational curricula—to transform colonial curricula thr…
Water in the Anthropocene
Cape Town’s drought (2015-2017) focused attention on humans’ dependency on water and the irreversibility of environmental degradation in South Africa in the Anthropocene. Water is symbolically linked to femininity as fluid, connected to the moon and tides, generative and sustaining. This article explores South African women poets’ diverse responses to water, focusing on Allison Claire Hoskins, Toni Stuart, Koleka Putuma, Wilma Stockenström and Ga…
Introduction to the Special Issue of Feminist Encounters on ‘Gender and the Anthropocene’
Studies in Culture and Politics is motivated by the need to craft a gendered, and specifically intersectional feminist, response to the Anthropocene. The term was coined in 2000 by scientists
‘Queer Villainy’
Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) are popularly believed to be the exclusive preserve of the heterosexual population. This assumption underpins the fact that policy and interventions aimed at reducing DVA often focus on remediating men’s behaviour so that they become less violent towards women. Such views exclude the fact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people also experience DVA. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the l…
Feminist Encounters with Situated Knowledges of Gender and Love
Editorial: Feminist Encounters with Situated Knowledges of Gender and Love
On the Edge
A roundtable discussion featuring Serena Petrella, Associate Professor of Sociology, Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University, Canada; Amanda Gouws, SARChI Chair in Gender Politics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; and Danai Mupotsa, Senior Lecturer in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Hosted by Dr Wernmei Yong Ade (Mei), formerly from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore…
Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature
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