Gugu Hlongwane
Biographic Data
| ID | 122498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gugu Hlongwane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gugu |
| FAMILY NAME | Hlongwane |
| SIGNATURE | HLONGWANE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1129-1539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Journeys, Paths and Healing in Simphiwe Dana's Music
This article explores the role of popular culture, especially music, in human rights struggles and global rights discourses. We highlight selected songs from Simphiwe Dana's albums, The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street (2006) and Kulture Noire (2010). The article centres on Dana's socially conscious music, which is replete with figurative use of streets, ways and journeys. According to African cosmologies, the journey motif is central to Af…
Mentoring, masculinity and reparation in Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man
This article discusses roles of mentoring, masculinity and reparation in Thando Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man. We explore how male initiation, specifically ulwaluko – a rite of passage in Xhosa traditions – negatively impacts the development of the novel’s protagonist. We argue that initiation rites, which typically highlight and parallel the steps of human growth, hinge on supportive and mentoring environments in the production of healthy …
Contextualizing South Africa’s Freedom Songs
This article offers an examination of Lee Hirsch’s Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony. Beginning with the liberation songs that gained salience during the National Party’s implementation of apartheid policy in 1948 and ending with the struggle songs of a post-1994 democratic South Africa, the documentary’s aim is to retrieve and recount the role of freedom songs in antiapartheid struggle. Using the writings of Ernesto Laclau, John Mbiti,…
A piece of person
This paper explores the role of multi‐racial education in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not. Focusing on the “engulfment” of protagonist Tambudzai Sigauke at the Young Ladies’ College of the Sacred Heart in colonial Rhodesia of the 1970s, I argue that Tambu is so battered and overwhelmed by the racist environment as a black pupil in a multi‐racial school that she succumbs to the very forces that threaten her existence. At the novel’s end Tambu…
What has modernity to do with it
This article explores the place of alternative modernities in the tentatively “new” South Africa. Premised upon Paul Gilroy's theoretical deconstruction of “race” and “nation” in the “black Atlantic”, the arguments presented will underscore the limitations of Gilroy's “counterculture” of modernity. Whilst the world is in need of the humanism that Gilroy advocates, “postrace” and “postnation” states are premature ideals for a newly post‐apartheid …
A piece of person
This paper explores the role of multi‐racial education in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not. Focusing on the “engulfment” of protagonist Tambudzai Sigauke at the Young Ladies’ College of the Sacred Heart in colonial Rhodesia of the 1970s, I argue that Tambu is so battered and overwhelmed by the racist environment as a black pupil in a multi‐racial school that she succumbs to the very forces that threaten her existence. At the novel’s end Tambu…
Mentoring, masculinity and reparation in Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man
This article discusses roles of mentoring, masculinity and reparation in Thando Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man. We explore how male initiation, specifically ulwaluko – a rite of passage in Xhosa traditions – negatively impacts the development of the novel’s protagonist. We argue that initiation rites, which typically highlight and parallel the steps of human growth, hinge on supportive and mentoring environments in the production of healthy …
What has modernity to do with it
This article explores the place of alternative modernities in the tentatively “new” South Africa. Premised upon Paul Gilroy's theoretical deconstruction of “race” and “nation” in the “black Atlantic”, the arguments presented will underscore the limitations of Gilroy's “counterculture” of modernity. Whilst the world is in need of the humanism that Gilroy advocates, “postrace” and “postnation” states are premature ideals for a newly post‐apartheid …
A piece of person
This paper explores the role of multi‐racial education in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not. Focusing on the “engulfment” of protagonist Tambudzai Sigauke at the Young Ladies’ College of the Sacred Heart in colonial Rhodesia of the 1970s, I argue that Tambu is so battered and overwhelmed by the racist environment as a black pupil in a multi‐racial school that she succumbs to the very forces that threaten her existence. At the novel’s end Tambu…
Contextualizing South Africa’s Freedom Songs
This article offers an examination of Lee Hirsch’s Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony. Beginning with the liberation songs that gained salience during the National Party’s implementation of apartheid policy in 1948 and ending with the struggle songs of a post-1994 democratic South Africa, the documentary’s aim is to retrieve and recount the role of freedom songs in antiapartheid struggle. Using the writings of Ernesto Laclau, John Mbiti,…
Journeys, Paths and Healing in Simphiwe Dana's Music
This article explores the role of popular culture, especially music, in human rights struggles and global rights discourses. We highlight selected songs from Simphiwe Dana's albums, The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street (2006) and Kulture Noire (2010). The article centres on Dana's socially conscious music, which is replete with figurative use of streets, ways and journeys. According to African cosmologies, the journey motif is central to Af…
Mentoring, masculinity and reparation in Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man
This article discusses roles of mentoring, masculinity and reparation in Thando Mgqolozana’s A Man Who is Not a Man. We explore how male initiation, specifically ulwaluko – a rite of passage in Xhosa traditions – negatively impacts the development of the novel’s protagonist. We argue that initiation rites, which typically highlight and parallel the steps of human growth, hinge on supportive and mentoring environments in the production of healthy …
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works)