Gabeba Baderoon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 640359 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gabeba Baderoon |
| NOMBRES | Gabeba |
| APELLIDO | Baderoon |
| FIRMA | BADEROON G |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5470-2364 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Just Now
What are the challenges facing Africanist and African women's and gender studies scholars
What are the challenges facing Africanist and African women's and gender studies scholars? Gabeba Baderoon (bio), Maha Marouan (bio), and Alicia Decker (bio) [End Page 107] Editors of Pandemonium spoke with Gabeba Baderoon, Maha Marouan, and Alicia Decker on August 4 and 28, 2023. Alicia Decker: Out of our shared challenges came the idea to create an alternative space to engage in critical conversations and scholarly work on feminist issues in Af…
I Forget to Look' and 'The History of Intimacy
The poems 'I Forget to Look' and 'The History of Intimacy' from Gabeba Baderoon
I Cannot Myself
Stone Skin
Surfacing
The Law of the Mother
You and your sisters ask your mother if it hurts on your wedding night when your hymen is broken and she answers, it’s a membrane and it doesn’t break, just gets nudged aside, and it doesn’t hurt if you’re gentle with each other and take your time.On hearing this, you are puzzled because everyone tells you the breaking is the sign of a good woman but you grasp that she has told you the law of the mother.One day when you are five, a boy in the nei…
No Name
My parents only bought stuff in bulk or on discount, No Name brands. They saved up for years, saying no to all our requests, then bought everything in cash, even the car. Eventually we learned not to ask for things, not even to want them. Even desire was pared from us.Our salt was no name. Our milk. Our clothes. Ourselves. In their plain white boxes with blue writing, the label of No Money fell on us through these objects, stuck to our skin, told…
African Feminisms
Surplus, excess, dirt
Centuries before apartheid, South Africa was fundamentally shaped by 176 years of slavery, a period of racialised and gendered brutality that lasted from 1658 to 1834. Enslaved people were brought to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company from African and Asian territories around the Indian Ocean, and eventually came to constitute the majority of the population of the Colony. Françoise Vergès (2005 Vergès, F. 2005. “One World, Many Maps.” Inter…
Animal likenesses
The dog is a charged and powerful symbol in South Africa. Racialized canine invective played a formative role in colonial efforts to dispossess Africans of land. However, the symbolic meanings of dogs in South African culture range far beyond insult. Recent portrayals of canines have turned suggestively, if equivocally, from denigration toward signalling post-apartheid racial authenticity. To reflect on this shift, I draw on academic and popular …
I Compose Myself”
Journal Article "I Compose Myself": Lesbian Muslim Autobiographies and the Craft of Self-Writing in South Africa Get access Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon * * Gabeba Baderoon, Pennsylvania State University, 129 Willard Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: [email protected] . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 83, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 897–9…
Focal Length; Poetry for Beginners; ID Photos
134 Feminist Studies 41, no. 1. © 2015 by Gabeba Baderoon Focal Length Gabeba Baderoon I take out the black and white photos I brought with me from Cape Town and haven’t looked at for years and stand them next to one another on the dining room table. In one, my mother in her white coat at the hospital looks up from her notes, distracted, in the grainy matte finish you could ask for in the eighties instead of gloss. Here she is, younger, standing …
Regarding Muslims
Tributes to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
The Ghost in the House
In South Africa, the house is a haunted place. Apartheid’s separate publics also required separate private lives and separate leisures in which to practice ways of living apartheid’s ideological partitions into reality. This essay analyzes the compulsive interest in black domesticity that has characterized South Africa since the colonial period and shows that domestic labor in white homes has historically shaped the entry of black women into publ…
Regarding Muslims
Regarding Muslims argues that the 350-year archive of images documenting Muslims in South Africa is central to understanding the development of concepts of race, sexuality and belonging. Baderoon explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, a set of images whose instability is revealed when more disquieting images burst into prominence during moments of crisis. Popular culture, visual art, jokes…
Gabeba Baderoon
In the city, the green cranes have paused and the scaffold lattice of the week-day workers clanks emptily in the wind. Under the Civic Centre, a column of shadow and silence divides the street. The
Writers and Their Cities
Writers and Their Cities new books Five Bells Gail Jones (Picador) “Circular Quay: she loved even the sound of it.” And so begins this novel spanning a single day in Sydney, the city in which the author lives and teaches. Initially published in 2011, Five Bells is now available in paperback. Publishers Weekly called it “an elegant literary meditation on time and chance.” Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale Mario Levi, tr. Ender Gürol (Dalkey Archive) Throu…
Small differences
The sea inside us
1 1. From Mxolisi Nyezwa’s poem, ‘Sea’ (Nyezwa 2000 Nyezwa, M., 2000. Sea. In: Song trials. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 62. [Google Scholar]). How do Muslims in South Africa recount the experience of pilgrimage? This paper considers the genre of oral and written South African hajj narratives and reflects on the insights they hold about Muslim subjectivity and history in South Africa. Pilgrimage is a complex theme, or, as …
The Literature Police
Book Review| March 01 2011 The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences McDonald, PeterThe Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 432 pp. Paper $27.95. Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon Pennsylvania State University Gabeba Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town. She has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, th…
Gender within Gender
"Gender within Gender": Zanele Muholi's Imagesof Trans Being and Becoming Gabeba Baderoon Before I knew about transgender, I called it gender within gender. —Zanele Muholi, 2011. In her keynote address to the "African Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity" conference in Pretoria, South Africa, in February 2011, Desiree Lewis pointed to Zanele Muholi's photograph Ms. D'vine I as exem plifying the Utopian possibilities of queer liberation. With…
This is our speech
In recent years, different South African literary genres have revealed writers' innovative efforts to name subjectivities and experiences that have been erased by legacies of colonial and sexual violence. By analysing the poem 'Tongues of Their Mothers', the novel Unconfessed and the play Reclaiming the P...Word, this essay traces a shift away from realistic representations of the physical and symbolic violence to which Black women's bodies have …
Ocean of Letters
Reviewed by: Ocean of Letters Gabeba Baderoon Ocean of Letters BY Pier M. LarsonCritical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. In the evocatively titled Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora, Pier Larson explores the history of Malagasy, a language from the island of Madagascar that, as a result of forced migration, was spoken across the Indian Ocean region, and yet whose role in the lives of ens…
The African Oceans—Tracing the Sea as Memory of Slavery in South African Literature and Culture
This essay traces images of the Indian and Atlantic oceans in South African literature and art for their evocation of the country's history of slavery. I argue that turning one's gaze to the sea recovers evidence of slave lives otherwise erased from folk memory, as well as the decisively modern character of slave practices subsumed behind picturesque portrayals of the Cape. The essay reveals an alternative modernity crafted by enslaved people in …
Gender within Gender
"Gender within Gender": Zanele Muholi's Imagesof Trans Being and Becoming Gabeba Baderoon Before I knew about transgender, I called it gender within gender. —Zanele Muholi, 2011. In her keynote address to the "African Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity" conference in Pretoria, South Africa, in February 2011, Desiree Lewis pointed to Zanele Muholi's photograph Ms. D'vine I as exem plifying the Utopian possibilities of queer liberation. With…
Animal likenesses
The dog is a charged and powerful symbol in South Africa. Racialized canine invective played a formative role in colonial efforts to dispossess Africans of land. However, the symbolic meanings of dogs in South African culture range far beyond insult. Recent portrayals of canines have turned suggestively, if equivocally, from denigration toward signalling post-apartheid racial authenticity. To reflect on this shift, I draw on academic and popular …
Surplus, excess, dirt
Centuries before apartheid, South Africa was fundamentally shaped by 176 years of slavery, a period of racialised and gendered brutality that lasted from 1658 to 1834. Enslaved people were brought to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company from African and Asian territories around the Indian Ocean, and eventually came to constitute the majority of the population of the Colony. Françoise Vergès (2005 Vergès, F. 2005. “One World, Many Maps.” Inter…
The Ghost in the House
In South Africa, the house is a haunted place. Apartheid’s separate publics also required separate private lives and separate leisures in which to practice ways of living apartheid’s ideological partitions into reality. This essay analyzes the compulsive interest in black domesticity that has characterized South Africa since the colonial period and shows that domestic labor in white homes has historically shaped the entry of black women into publ…
Southern African Literatures
Book Review| January 01 2006 Southern African Literatures Southern African LiteraturesChapman, Michael Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2006) 43 (1-2): 171–173. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659510 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gabeba Baderoon; Southern African Literatures. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2006;…
I Compose Myself”
Journal Article "I Compose Myself": Lesbian Muslim Autobiographies and the Craft of Self-Writing in South Africa Get access Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon * * Gabeba Baderoon, Pennsylvania State University, 129 Willard Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: [email protected] . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 83, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 897–9…
This is our speech
In recent years, different South African literary genres have revealed writers' innovative efforts to name subjectivities and experiences that have been erased by legacies of colonial and sexual violence. By analysing the poem 'Tongues of Their Mothers', the novel Unconfessed and the play Reclaiming the P...Word, this essay traces a shift away from realistic representations of the physical and symbolic violence to which Black women's bodies have …
African Feminisms
Small differences
The Literature Police
Book Review| March 01 2011 The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences McDonald, PeterThe Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 432 pp. Paper $27.95. Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon Pennsylvania State University Gabeba Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town. She has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, th…
Shooting the East/Veils and Masks
Happy endings
In this paper I examine the complex manner in which narrative and genre operate in the American television series Twin Peaks (1990/1991). The role of the detective, in classic as well as postmodernist models of the detective story, is explored. Dale Cooper, the “literal” hero of Twin Peaks, is contrasted with earlier incarnations of similar protagonists. The most interesting index of the difference in this rendition of the detective hero lies in …
Shooting the East/Veils and Masks
In this essay the author analyzes a series of South African newspaper articles on a Cape Town-based group called Pagad (People against Gangsterism and Drugs). The essay draws upon a larger study of the images of Islam in the South African media and reveals that both the Pagad and the media make use of regressive discourses about Islam. The author finds traces in the media of what Edward Said has referred to as Orientalism. Through the Pagad stori…
Shooting the East/Veils and Masks
South Africa
This article examines representations of Islam in South African media through an analysis of images of Pagad in one particular South African newspaper, the Cape Times in one week of coverage from 5 to 12 August 1996. Reference is also made to the Cape Argus. Major patterns of visual and verbal images are considered that characterised the Pagad news-stories, showing that the fi gure of the “masked man” became a primary marker of the stories. The i…
HungerI Used to Live
Southern African Literatures
Book Review| January 01 2006 Southern African Literatures Southern African LiteraturesChapman, Michael Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2006) 43 (1-2): 171–173. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659510 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gabeba Baderoon; Southern African Literatures. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2006;…
Methodologies
The idea of archive crucially informs my thesis on images of Islam in South African media and culture. In repositories of authoritative texts the thesis tracked the dynamics that render Islam visible in South Africa. I examined official and parallel archives, finding images of Islam in overlooked and insignificant places such as cookbooks, jokes and stories and, through them, explored interior and resistant meanings. In the thesis I analysed nove…
“A language to fit Africa”
The Five Names of Tatamkhulu Afrika
r Chameleon (2005) is the autobiography of the South African political activist, poet, and novelist Tatamkhulu Afrika, who was born in Cairo in 1920 and died eighty-two years later in Cape Town. Afrika converted to Islam in the 1960s and classi fied himself as Muslim, thereby ceding the racial privilege of whiteness under apartheid. Afrika titled his autobiography after the chameleon, which embodies the discursive elusiveness of the life recounte…
Regarding South African Images of Islam
In this article I trace the trajectory of images of Islam in South Africa from the tradition of the picturesque mode that had developed in the Cape during the colonial period when Muslims slaves constituted a significant part of the population of the colony, and were portrayed as submissive and compliant with the wishes of the slave-owning dominant society, to contemporary images of Islam in South African media, literature and art. The article an…
The African Oceans—Tracing the Sea as Memory of Slavery in South African Literature and Culture
This essay traces images of the Indian and Atlantic oceans in South African literature and art for their evocation of the country's history of slavery. I argue that turning one's gaze to the sea recovers evidence of slave lives otherwise erased from folk memory, as well as the decisively modern character of slave practices subsumed behind picturesque portrayals of the Cape. The essay reveals an alternative modernity crafted by enslaved people in …
Father Receives News His Son Died in the Intifada
Father Receives News His Son Died in the Intifada* Gabeba Baderoon (bio) When he heard the news, Mr. Karim became silent. He did not look at the cameras, nor at the people who brought their grief. He felt a hand slip from his hand, a small unclasping, and for that he refused the solace of glory. [End Page 1064] Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon, who received her PhD in English at the University of Capetown in South Africa, is author of four books o…
I Cannot Myself
I Cannot Myself* Gabeba Baderoon (bio) To come to this country, my body must assemble itself into photographs and signatures. Among them they will search for me. I must leave behind all uncertainties. I cannot myself be a question. [End Page 1062] Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon, who received her PhD in English at the University of Capetown in South Africa, is author of four books of poems: The Silence Before Speaking, The Museum of Ordinary Life…
Ocean of Letters
Reviewed by: Ocean of Letters Gabeba Baderoon Ocean of Letters BY Pier M. LarsonCritical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. In the evocatively titled Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora, Pier Larson explores the history of Malagasy, a language from the island of Madagascar that, as a result of forced migration, was spoken across the Indian Ocean region, and yet whose role in the lives of ens…
The Literature Police
Book Review| March 01 2011 The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences McDonald, PeterThe Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 432 pp. Paper $27.95. Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon Pennsylvania State University Gabeba Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town. She has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, th…
Gender within Gender
"Gender within Gender": Zanele Muholi's Imagesof Trans Being and Becoming Gabeba Baderoon Before I knew about transgender, I called it gender within gender. —Zanele Muholi, 2011. In her keynote address to the "African Same-Sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity" conference in Pretoria, South Africa, in February 2011, Desiree Lewis pointed to Zanele Muholi's photograph Ms. D'vine I as exem plifying the Utopian possibilities of queer liberation. With…
This is our speech
In recent years, different South African literary genres have revealed writers' innovative efforts to name subjectivities and experiences that have been erased by legacies of colonial and sexual violence. By analysing the poem 'Tongues of Their Mothers', the novel Unconfessed and the play Reclaiming the P...Word, this essay traces a shift away from realistic representations of the physical and symbolic violence to which Black women's bodies have …
Writers and Their Cities
Writers and Their Cities new books Five Bells Gail Jones (Picador) “Circular Quay: she loved even the sound of it.” And so begins this novel spanning a single day in Sydney, the city in which the author lives and teaches. Initially published in 2011, Five Bells is now available in paperback. Publishers Weekly called it “an elegant literary meditation on time and chance.” Istanbul Was a Fairy Tale Mario Levi, tr. Ender Gürol (Dalkey Archive) Throu…
Small differences
The sea inside us
1 1. From Mxolisi Nyezwa’s poem, ‘Sea’ (Nyezwa 2000 Nyezwa, M., 2000. Sea. In: Song trials. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 62. [Google Scholar]). How do Muslims in South Africa recount the experience of pilgrimage? This paper considers the genre of oral and written South African hajj narratives and reflects on the insights they hold about Muslim subjectivity and history in South Africa. Pilgrimage is a complex theme, or, as …
Gabeba Baderoon
In the city, the green cranes have paused and the scaffold lattice of the week-day workers clanks emptily in the wind. Under the Civic Centre, a column of shadow and silence divides the street. The
Regarding Muslims
Tributes to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
The Ghost in the House
In South Africa, the house is a haunted place. Apartheid’s separate publics also required separate private lives and separate leisures in which to practice ways of living apartheid’s ideological partitions into reality. This essay analyzes the compulsive interest in black domesticity that has characterized South Africa since the colonial period and shows that domestic labor in white homes has historically shaped the entry of black women into publ…
Regarding Muslims
Regarding Muslims argues that the 350-year archive of images documenting Muslims in South Africa is central to understanding the development of concepts of race, sexuality and belonging. Baderoon explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, a set of images whose instability is revealed when more disquieting images burst into prominence during moments of crisis. Popular culture, visual art, jokes…
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