Daniel Roux
Biographic Data
| ID | 120548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Roux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Roux |
| SIGNATURE | ROUX D |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5578-5613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and the Genesis of the South African Prison Memoir
This article considers Herman Charles Bosman’s memoir, Cold Stone Jug, as an early and influential prototype for the important genre of South African prison literature in the twentieth century. The memoir is attentive to the ways in which the material space of the Benthamite prison dictates social relationships and rituals, and becomes psychologically internalized. The article performs a close analysis of Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug in order to show …
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary and Prison Writing from Africa
If the unvarnished power of the state has a face, then it is the prison. When the mask of cultural hegemony slips, we encounter the walls of the penal institution, its barbed wire, and its blankly functional architecture, mute and unseeing. A prison is one of the most concentrated modalities of state power. By definition, a prison is a zone of exclusion; it defines the normal, everyday civic sphere by defining a site of exception. A prison has it…
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
Reading Hamlet’s Dreams as Theory
Inside/Outside
A striking feature of the post-apartheid era is the demise of prison life writing: the prison narrative, once a central pillar of South African autobiographical writing, abruptly moved to an almost-invisible periphery after the demise of apartheid. This article discusses two striking exceptions to this trend, namely Jonny Steinberg's book The Number and two photographic exhibitions by the South African artist Mikhael Subotzky titled Die Vier Hoek…
Jonny Steinberg'sThe Numberand prison life writing in post-apartheid South Africa
Under apartheid, the prison autobiography enjoyed a privileged status, with the prison playing the role of the apartheid state in miniature: the penitentiary was one of the most coercive material manifestations of a racist and brutal regime. With the demise of apartheid, however, the prison autobiography has become a marginalised and depoliticised genre. The loss of status of the prison autobiography is paralleled by the endemic neglect of the pe…
Inside/Outside
A striking feature of the post-apartheid era is the demise of prison life writing: the prison narrative, once a central pillar of South African autobiographical writing, abruptly moved to an almost-invisible periphery after the demise of apartheid. This article discusses two striking exceptions to this trend, namely Jonny Steinberg's book The Number and two photographic exhibitions by the South African artist Mikhael Subotzky titled Die Vier Hoek…
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary and Prison Writing from Africa
If the unvarnished power of the state has a face, then it is the prison. When the mask of cultural hegemony slips, we encounter the walls of the penal institution, its barbed wire, and its blankly functional architecture, mute and unseeing. A prison is one of the most concentrated modalities of state power. By definition, a prison is a zone of exclusion; it defines the normal, everyday civic sphere by defining a site of exception. A prison has it…
Jonny Steinberg'sThe Numberand prison life writing in post-apartheid South Africa
Under apartheid, the prison autobiography enjoyed a privileged status, with the prison playing the role of the apartheid state in miniature: the penitentiary was one of the most coercive material manifestations of a racist and brutal regime. With the demise of apartheid, however, the prison autobiography has become a marginalised and depoliticised genre. The loss of status of the prison autobiography is paralleled by the endemic neglect of the pe…
Jonny Steinberg'sThe Numberand prison life writing in post-apartheid South Africa
Under apartheid, the prison autobiography enjoyed a privileged status, with the prison playing the role of the apartheid state in miniature: the penitentiary was one of the most coercive material manifestations of a racist and brutal regime. With the demise of apartheid, however, the prison autobiography has become a marginalised and depoliticised genre. The loss of status of the prison autobiography is paralleled by the endemic neglect of the pe…
The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was one of the most revered figures of our time. He committed himself to a compelling political cause, suffered a long prison sentence, and led his violent and divided country to a peaceful democratic transition. His legacy, however, is not uncontested: his decision to embark on an armed struggle in the 1960s, his solitary talks with apartheid officials in the 1980s, and the economic policies adopted during his presidency still spa…
Reading Hamlet’s Dreams as Theory
Inside/Outside
A striking feature of the post-apartheid era is the demise of prison life writing: the prison narrative, once a central pillar of South African autobiographical writing, abruptly moved to an almost-invisible periphery after the demise of apartheid. This article discusses two striking exceptions to this trend, namely Jonny Steinberg's book The Number and two photographic exhibitions by the South African artist Mikhael Subotzky titled Die Vier Hoek…
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary and Prison Writing from Africa
If the unvarnished power of the state has a face, then it is the prison. When the mask of cultural hegemony slips, we encounter the walls of the penal institution, its barbed wire, and its blankly functional architecture, mute and unseeing. A prison is one of the most concentrated modalities of state power. By definition, a prison is a zone of exclusion; it defines the normal, everyday civic sphere by defining a site of exception. A prison has it…
Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and the Genesis of the South African Prison Memoir
This article considers Herman Charles Bosman’s memoir, Cold Stone Jug, as an early and influential prototype for the important genre of South African prison literature in the twentieth century. The memoir is attentive to the ways in which the material space of the Benthamite prison dictates social relationships and rituals, and becomes psychologically internalized. The article performs a close analysis of Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug in order to show …
Prison (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (3 works)