A Pretorius
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 57882 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Pretorius |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Pretorius |
| FIRMA | PRETORIUS A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4442-1926 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
‘Males and Females the Girl Consumes!’
This article analyses the ways in which food discourse is employed to destabilise essentialised notions of culture and gender in South African author Zinaid Meeran’s début novel, Saracen at the Gates (2009). The article explains how Meeran disrupts stratified conceptions of culture through his alimentary cartograph, and how food is used to disrupt religious identification. His depiction of the desiring queer body is interpreted as that which rupt…
Jane Austen and Her Diverse Daughters
Jane Austen and her depiction of courtship during the Regency Period is particularly relevant to South African Indian Muslim women due to the similarities between contemporary Muslim engagement rituals and Austen’s representation of courtship. This can be seen in Riding the Samoosa Express (eds Jeena and Asvat 2014), a non-fiction collection of essays by South African Muslim women, relating to courtship and marriage. In examining some of the essa…
Google trends and water conservation awareness
South Africa has periods of drought, which lead to water restrictions. Enhanced public awareness and understanding of water scarcity and drought might contribute to the sensible use of water resources. In this article the level and nature of public awareness towards water scarcity and drought in South Africa were determined using Google Trends over a period of 10 consecutive years from 1 January 2009–1 January 2019. Google Trends has real-time da…
White Bread and Whitewashing
Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf, published in Afrikaans in the year of South Africa’s transition to democracy, and in English five years later, remains one of the most powerfully cogent deconstructions of whiteness and Afrikaner nationalism to have appeared in local literature in the last twenty-five years. While a relatively large body of scholarship has analysed Van Niekerk’s interrogation of whiteness in the novel, this article focuses specifical…
Bodily disintegration and successful ageing in Body Bereft by Antjie Krog
Antjie Krog’s Body Bereft (2006) details both the bodily changes brought about by older age and the ways in which these changes fracture a person’s previously-stable sense of self. This article reads Krog’s depiction of the ageing body in a small selection of poems from this collection in relation to the unavoidable reality of bodily decay and what is referred to in gerontological theory as ‘successful ageing’. This tension dominates large parts …
Why were we crucified into car mechanics?”
Critical commentary on Jak de Wet in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat centres on his being a patriarchal stereotype of Afrikaner nationalism. However, while his negative behaviour in the novel is undeniable, the construction of his masculine identity is mediated by the emasculated space in which he enacts it. This article reads his masculinity in relation to the concept of “hegemonic masculinity”, the spatial construction of public and private masculi…
Notes from the Lost Property Department
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Beyond the Allegory
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (translated into English by Michiel Heyns) details the subjectivity of its bed-ridden and paralysed protagonist, Milla Redelinghuys, as well as the complex relationship she shares with her caregiver, Agaat. Through reading Milla's body in relation to Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the grotesque, this article aims to explore the ways in which the text problematizes overly allegorical readings of the novel that emphasize M…
Does the Girl Think of Nothing but Food?’
The preparation and the consumption of food constitute integral parts of the idealized representations of domesticity and home. What we eat and how we eat it defines our sense of individuality, as well as our collective sense of cultural belonging. However, in this era of transcultural migration, the notion of “authentic” food is fraught with ambiguity. This paper examines the ways in which October, Zoë Wicomb’s most recent novel, dismantles the …
Sisters in crime
Margie Orford introduced South Africans to Clare Hart over half a century after the publication of June Drummond's The black unicorn, which Mike Nicol refers to as South Africa's first crime novel. Drawing on Sarah Nuttall's notion of “entanglement”, this article attempts to trace the ways in which these two authors are connected, despite the historical and sociopolitical divide that separates them. Both Nan, the protagonist of The black unicorn,…
Beyond the Allegory
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (translated into English by Michiel Heyns) details the subjectivity of its bed-ridden and paralysed protagonist, Milla Redelinghuys, as well as the complex relationship she shares with her caregiver, Agaat. Through reading Milla's body in relation to Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the grotesque, this article aims to explore the ways in which the text problematizes overly allegorical readings of the novel that emphasize M…
Sisters in crime
Margie Orford introduced South Africans to Clare Hart over half a century after the publication of June Drummond's The black unicorn, which Mike Nicol refers to as South Africa's first crime novel. Drawing on Sarah Nuttall's notion of “entanglement”, this article attempts to trace the ways in which these two authors are connected, despite the historical and sociopolitical divide that separates them. Both Nan, the protagonist of The black unicorn,…
Sisters in crime
Margie Orford introduced South Africans to Clare Hart over half a century after the publication of June Drummond's The black unicorn, which Mike Nicol refers to as South Africa's first crime novel. Drawing on Sarah Nuttall's notion of “entanglement”, this article attempts to trace the ways in which these two authors are connected, despite the historical and sociopolitical divide that separates them. Both Nan, the protagonist of The black unicorn,…
Does the Girl Think of Nothing but Food?’
The preparation and the consumption of food constitute integral parts of the idealized representations of domesticity and home. What we eat and how we eat it defines our sense of individuality, as well as our collective sense of cultural belonging. However, in this era of transcultural migration, the notion of “authentic” food is fraught with ambiguity. This paper examines the ways in which October, Zoë Wicomb’s most recent novel, dismantles the …
Notes from the Lost Property Department
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Beyond the Allegory
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (translated into English by Michiel Heyns) details the subjectivity of its bed-ridden and paralysed protagonist, Milla Redelinghuys, as well as the complex relationship she shares with her caregiver, Agaat. Through reading Milla's body in relation to Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the grotesque, this article aims to explore the ways in which the text problematizes overly allegorical readings of the novel that emphasize M…
Bodily disintegration and successful ageing in Body Bereft by Antjie Krog
Antjie Krog’s Body Bereft (2006) details both the bodily changes brought about by older age and the ways in which these changes fracture a person’s previously-stable sense of self. This article reads Krog’s depiction of the ageing body in a small selection of poems from this collection in relation to the unavoidable reality of bodily decay and what is referred to in gerontological theory as ‘successful ageing’. This tension dominates large parts …
Why were we crucified into car mechanics?”
Critical commentary on Jak de Wet in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat centres on his being a patriarchal stereotype of Afrikaner nationalism. However, while his negative behaviour in the novel is undeniable, the construction of his masculine identity is mediated by the emasculated space in which he enacts it. This article reads his masculinity in relation to the concept of “hegemonic masculinity”, the spatial construction of public and private masculi…
White Bread and Whitewashing
Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf, published in Afrikaans in the year of South Africa’s transition to democracy, and in English five years later, remains one of the most powerfully cogent deconstructions of whiteness and Afrikaner nationalism to have appeared in local literature in the last twenty-five years. While a relatively large body of scholarship has analysed Van Niekerk’s interrogation of whiteness in the novel, this article focuses specifical…
Google trends and water conservation awareness
South Africa has periods of drought, which lead to water restrictions. Enhanced public awareness and understanding of water scarcity and drought might contribute to the sensible use of water resources. In this article the level and nature of public awareness towards water scarcity and drought in South Africa were determined using Google Trends over a period of 10 consecutive years from 1 January 2009–1 January 2019. Google Trends has real-time da…
‘Males and Females the Girl Consumes!’
This article analyses the ways in which food discourse is employed to destabilise essentialised notions of culture and gender in South African author Zinaid Meeran’s début novel, Saracen at the Gates (2009). The article explains how Meeran disrupts stratified conceptions of culture through his alimentary cartograph, and how food is used to disrupt religious identification. His depiction of the desiring queer body is interpreted as that which rupt…
Jane Austen and Her Diverse Daughters
Jane Austen and her depiction of courtship during the Regency Period is particularly relevant to South African Indian Muslim women due to the similarities between contemporary Muslim engagement rituals and Austen’s representation of courtship. This can be seen in Riding the Samoosa Express (eds Jeena and Asvat 2014), a non-fiction collection of essays by South African Muslim women, relating to courtship and marriage. In examining some of the essa…
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