Tom Penfold
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 103885 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tom Penfold |
| NOMBRES | Tom |
| APELLIDO | Penfold |
| FIRMA | PENFOLD T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Johannesburg |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Editing My Mother’s Laughter
Reading emotion, reading joy
Fallism has taken South African literature to a precipice.A growing mistrust in the country's postcolonial politics and the continuing physical and economic oppression of black bodies -captured in the spirit of #RhodesMustFall -has led to a questioning of the rational desire to 'put into words'.The radical social and political change required, critics imply, can no longer be adequately understood through the certainty of the written form: The pat…
Being a better human
In 2017, the South African poet Angifi Dladla released his second collection of poetry, Lament for Kofifi Macu, published by Deep South Press. This follows a hiatus of 11 years since the publishing of his debut work The Girl who then Feared to Sleep & Other Poems. The new collection marks a departure from several aspects of Dladla’s previous works but continues his uncompromisingly critical gaze at the structure and personalities of contemporary …
Black Consciousness and South Africa’s National Literature
Writing the City from Below
Cited as an elusive metropolis, the city of Johannesburg largely resists the imagination. Following on from Lucy Gasser’s (2014) reading of Ivan Vladislavić’s Portrait with Keys this article considers how graffiti and street art offer ways of “mapping” the city. Focusing on Nuttall and Mbembe’s distinction between surface and depth I argue, through a particular focus on the Westdene Graffiti Project, how street art captures some of the tensions i…
A Specific Kind of Violence
The recent histories of South Africa and Brazil share many commonalities. Most obviously, both have experienced a shared political history of democratic transition. Two somewhat similar forms of socio-political oppression and manipulation – military rule in Brazil (ended 1985) and South African apartheid (ended 1994) – have been replaced by democratic regimes and exceedingly optimistic hopes for the future. Yet neither transition has been as smoo…
Dissonances from the Global South
Taking up the important work of other theorists of performance, social memory and the political in Africa and Latin America we restate the need for a re-configured understanding of how performance – and in particular forms of expressive art – impinges on the practice of politics and is in fact embedded within it. Memory as held in the body can be both replayed within, and can re-form, the present. Thus, history overlays but is also redrawn throug…
Biko's Ghost
At the start of 2016, 22 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa is reaching a crossroads. The previous year will be remembered as a year of discontent. The country was persistently unsettle
Conditional Tense
Mxolisi Nyezwa's Poetry of No Sure Place
A change in direction of the journal New Coin during the 1990s saw the emergence of a diverse group of poets who had previously struggled for publication. This article recognises this often overlooked collective and argues that they quickly established their own style of “Poetry of No Sure Place”, which expresses a malaise of sadness within South Africa that is popularly felt but rarely articulated. Focusing on three collections of poetry by Mxol…
Volume, Power, Originality
This article aims to reassess recent and continuing analyses of Soweto poetry that merely confirm it as a product and expression of a Black Consciousness vogue. Discussing works by Mongane Serote, Sipho Sepamla, James Matthews and Njabulo Ndebele, I argue that although Black Consciousness ideas of self-respect and self-assertion are unmistakably included, this canon is situated within a profoundly complex historical and social context. Adopting S…
Towards a new public space
Going as far as to discuss political violence and funerals alongside poetry and theatre, this article adopts an inclusive approach to culture and explores the changing nature of performance in 1980s South Africa. Focusing initially on trade unions and worker culture, before widening the discussion, it is shown that those marginalized by apartheid society were able to work at the boundaries of established genres to perform messages of mobilization…
Public and Private Space in Contemporary South Africa
Starting from a reading of Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, this article examines the changing nature of social space in South Africa since 1994 as reflected in recent writing by Galgut, Ivan Vladislavić, Jonny Steinberg, K.S. Duiker and J.M. Coetzee. Adapting Mikael Karlström's distinction between ‘dystopian’ and ‘eutopian’ responses to social phenomena, I argue that post-apartheid literature bears witness to the perpetuation of a fundamentally d…
Towards a new public space
Going as far as to discuss political violence and funerals alongside poetry and theatre, this article adopts an inclusive approach to culture and explores the changing nature of performance in 1980s South Africa. Focusing initially on trade unions and worker culture, before widening the discussion, it is shown that those marginalized by apartheid society were able to work at the boundaries of established genres to perform messages of mobilization…
Dissonances from the Global South
Taking up the important work of other theorists of performance, social memory and the political in Africa and Latin America we restate the need for a re-configured understanding of how performance – and in particular forms of expressive art – impinges on the practice of politics and is in fact embedded within it. Memory as held in the body can be both replayed within, and can re-form, the present. Thus, history overlays but is also redrawn throug…
Mxolisi Nyezwa's Poetry of No Sure Place
A change in direction of the journal New Coin during the 1990s saw the emergence of a diverse group of poets who had previously struggled for publication. This article recognises this often overlooked collective and argues that they quickly established their own style of “Poetry of No Sure Place”, which expresses a malaise of sadness within South Africa that is popularly felt but rarely articulated. Focusing on three collections of poetry by Mxol…
Public and Private Space in Contemporary South Africa
Starting from a reading of Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, this article examines the changing nature of social space in South Africa since 1994 as reflected in recent writing by Galgut, Ivan Vladislavić, Jonny Steinberg, K.S. Duiker and J.M. Coetzee. Adapting Mikael Karlström's distinction between ‘dystopian’ and ‘eutopian’ responses to social phenomena, I argue that post-apartheid literature bears witness to the perpetuation of a fundamentally d…
Being a better human
In 2017, the South African poet Angifi Dladla released his second collection of poetry, Lament for Kofifi Macu, published by Deep South Press. This follows a hiatus of 11 years since the publishing of his debut work The Girl who then Feared to Sleep & Other Poems. The new collection marks a departure from several aspects of Dladla’s previous works but continues his uncompromisingly critical gaze at the structure and personalities of contemporary …
Volume, Power, Originality
This article aims to reassess recent and continuing analyses of Soweto poetry that merely confirm it as a product and expression of a Black Consciousness vogue. Discussing works by Mongane Serote, Sipho Sepamla, James Matthews and Njabulo Ndebele, I argue that although Black Consciousness ideas of self-respect and self-assertion are unmistakably included, this canon is situated within a profoundly complex historical and social context. Adopting S…
Public and Private Space in Contemporary South Africa
Starting from a reading of Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, this article examines the changing nature of social space in South Africa since 1994 as reflected in recent writing by Galgut, Ivan Vladislavić, Jonny Steinberg, K.S. Duiker and J.M. Coetzee. Adapting Mikael Karlström's distinction between ‘dystopian’ and ‘eutopian’ responses to social phenomena, I argue that post-apartheid literature bears witness to the perpetuation of a fundamentally d…
Volume, Power, Originality
This article aims to reassess recent and continuing analyses of Soweto poetry that merely confirm it as a product and expression of a Black Consciousness vogue. Discussing works by Mongane Serote, Sipho Sepamla, James Matthews and Njabulo Ndebele, I argue that although Black Consciousness ideas of self-respect and self-assertion are unmistakably included, this canon is situated within a profoundly complex historical and social context. Adopting S…
Towards a new public space
Going as far as to discuss political violence and funerals alongside poetry and theatre, this article adopts an inclusive approach to culture and explores the changing nature of performance in 1980s South Africa. Focusing initially on trade unions and worker culture, before widening the discussion, it is shown that those marginalized by apartheid society were able to work at the boundaries of established genres to perform messages of mobilization…
Biko's Ghost
At the start of 2016, 22 years since the end of apartheid, South Africa is reaching a crossroads. The previous year will be remembered as a year of discontent. The country was persistently unsettle
Conditional Tense
Mxolisi Nyezwa's Poetry of No Sure Place
A change in direction of the journal New Coin during the 1990s saw the emergence of a diverse group of poets who had previously struggled for publication. This article recognises this often overlooked collective and argues that they quickly established their own style of “Poetry of No Sure Place”, which expresses a malaise of sadness within South Africa that is popularly felt but rarely articulated. Focusing on three collections of poetry by Mxol…
Black Consciousness and South Africa’s National Literature
Writing the City from Below
Cited as an elusive metropolis, the city of Johannesburg largely resists the imagination. Following on from Lucy Gasser’s (2014) reading of Ivan Vladislavić’s Portrait with Keys this article considers how graffiti and street art offer ways of “mapping” the city. Focusing on Nuttall and Mbembe’s distinction between surface and depth I argue, through a particular focus on the Westdene Graffiti Project, how street art captures some of the tensions i…
A Specific Kind of Violence
The recent histories of South Africa and Brazil share many commonalities. Most obviously, both have experienced a shared political history of democratic transition. Two somewhat similar forms of socio-political oppression and manipulation – military rule in Brazil (ended 1985) and South African apartheid (ended 1994) – have been replaced by democratic regimes and exceedingly optimistic hopes for the future. Yet neither transition has been as smoo…
Dissonances from the Global South
Taking up the important work of other theorists of performance, social memory and the political in Africa and Latin America we restate the need for a re-configured understanding of how performance – and in particular forms of expressive art – impinges on the practice of politics and is in fact embedded within it. Memory as held in the body can be both replayed within, and can re-form, the present. Thus, history overlays but is also redrawn throug…
Being a better human
In 2017, the South African poet Angifi Dladla released his second collection of poetry, Lament for Kofifi Macu, published by Deep South Press. This follows a hiatus of 11 years since the publishing of his debut work The Girl who then Feared to Sleep & Other Poems. The new collection marks a departure from several aspects of Dladla’s previous works but continues his uncompromisingly critical gaze at the structure and personalities of contemporary …
Editing My Mother’s Laughter
Reading emotion, reading joy
Fallism has taken South African literature to a precipice.A growing mistrust in the country's postcolonial politics and the continuing physical and economic oppression of black bodies -captured in the spirit of #RhodesMustFall -has led to a questioning of the rational desire to 'put into words'.The radical social and political change required, critics imply, can no longer be adequately understood through the certainty of the written form: The pat…
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