Njabulo S Ndebele
Biographic Data
| ID | 1253546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Njabulo S Ndebele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Njabulo S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ndebele |
| SIGNATURE | NDEBELE N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
They are burning memory
To be or not to be: No longer at ease 1
This essay examines the changing range of descriptors available for black South African experience from the 1960s through to the present and shows the changing implications of ‘black’, ‘African’, ‘citizen’ and ‘human being’, with particular reference to the formative structures of education, and the enabling (or disabling) effects of literary studies in their Eurocentric and Afrocentric forms. In a general continental context in which the post-co…
A case for sheer compulsive and imaginative depth
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Tributes to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Love and politics: Sister Quinlan and the future we have desired
Seamus Heaney (like Stimpson and Parker in this issue) speaks of: A historic dialectic [which] exists between beautiful and bestial. In this speech, delivered on 13 December 2012, Njabulo Ndebele reflects on stories South Africa tells itself about past atrocity, as a way of achieving the future we have desired. Ndebele informs that telling of story of killing of Sister Quinlan in classroom would have been considered by state as a subversive act. …
Liberation betrayed by bloodshed
Iph' Indlela? Finding our way into the future' - the first Steve Biko memorial lecture
(2000). ‘Iph’ Indlela? Finding our way into the future’ ‐ the first Steve Biko memorial lecture. Social Dynamics: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 43-55
Whither English in the 21st century
Creative Instability: The Case of the South African Higher Education System
Njabulo S. Ndebele, Creative Instability: The Case of the South African Higher Education System, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 66, No. 4, Education in a New South Africa: The Crises of Conflict, the Challenges of Change (Autumn, 1997), pp. 443-448
Literature in Another South Africa: Njabulo Ndebele's Theory of Emergent Culture
The rediscovery of the ordinary: Some new writings in South Africa
The history of Black South African literature has largely been the history of the representation of spectacle. The visible symbols of the overwhelmingly oppressive South African social formation appear to have prompted over the years the development of a highly dramatic, highly demonstrative form of literary representation. One is reminded here of Roland Barthes's essay on wrestling. Some of Barthes's observations on the wrestling match seem part…
The rediscovery of the ordinary: Some new writings in South Africa
The history of Black South African literature has largely been the history of the representation of spectacle. The visible symbols of the overwhelmingly oppressive South African social formation appear to have prompted over the years the development of a highly dramatic, highly demonstrative form of literary representation. One is reminded here of Roland Barthes's essay on wrestling. Some of Barthes's observations on the wrestling match seem part…
Iph' Indlela? Finding our way into the future' - the first Steve Biko memorial lecture
(2000). ‘Iph’ Indlela? Finding our way into the future’ ‐ the first Steve Biko memorial lecture. Social Dynamics: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 43-55
They are burning memory
To be or not to be: No longer at ease 1
This essay examines the changing range of descriptors available for black South African experience from the 1960s through to the present and shows the changing implications of ‘black’, ‘African’, ‘citizen’ and ‘human being’, with particular reference to the formative structures of education, and the enabling (or disabling) effects of literary studies in their Eurocentric and Afrocentric forms. In a general continental context in which the post-co…
Love and politics: Sister Quinlan and the future we have desired
Seamus Heaney (like Stimpson and Parker in this issue) speaks of: A historic dialectic [which] exists between beautiful and bestial. In this speech, delivered on 13 December 2012, Njabulo Ndebele reflects on stories South Africa tells itself about past atrocity, as a way of achieving the future we have desired. Ndebele informs that telling of story of killing of Sister Quinlan in classroom would have been considered by state as a subversive act. …
Liberation betrayed by bloodshed
The rediscovery of the ordinary: Some new writings in South Africa
The history of Black South African literature has largely been the history of the representation of spectacle. The visible symbols of the overwhelmingly oppressive South African social formation appear to have prompted over the years the development of a highly dramatic, highly demonstrative form of literary representation. One is reminded here of Roland Barthes's essay on wrestling. Some of Barthes's observations on the wrestling match seem part…
Literature in Another South Africa: Njabulo Ndebele's Theory of Emergent Culture
Creative Instability: The Case of the South African Higher Education System
Njabulo S. Ndebele, Creative Instability: The Case of the South African Higher Education System, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 66, No. 4, Education in a New South Africa: The Crises of Conflict, the Challenges of Change (Autumn, 1997), pp. 443-448
Whither English in the 21st century
Iph' Indlela? Finding our way into the future' - the first Steve Biko memorial lecture
(2000). ‘Iph’ Indlela? Finding our way into the future’ ‐ the first Steve Biko memorial lecture. Social Dynamics: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 43-55
Liberation betrayed by bloodshed
Tributes to Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Love and politics: Sister Quinlan and the future we have desired
Seamus Heaney (like Stimpson and Parker in this issue) speaks of: A historic dialectic [which] exists between beautiful and bestial. In this speech, delivered on 13 December 2012, Njabulo Ndebele reflects on stories South Africa tells itself about past atrocity, as a way of achieving the future we have desired. Ndebele informs that telling of story of killing of Sister Quinlan in classroom would have been considered by state as a subversive act. …
To be or not to be: No longer at ease 1
This essay examines the changing range of descriptors available for black South African experience from the 1960s through to the present and shows the changing implications of ‘black’, ‘African’, ‘citizen’ and ‘human being’, with particular reference to the formative structures of education, and the enabling (or disabling) effects of literary studies in their Eurocentric and Afrocentric forms. In a general continental context in which the post-co…
A case for sheer compulsive and imaginative depth
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
They are burning memory
Sociology (8 works) · South African History and Culture (8 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)