Judith Lütge Coullie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Lütge Coullie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith Lütge |
| FAMILY NAME | Coullie |
| SIGNATURE | COULLIE J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5275-140X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Current Writing 39 (2) 2027 Special Issue: Life Writing in/on Southern Africa
The Paradox of ‘Impersonal Autobiography’: Albert Luthuli’s Let My People Go
Autobiographies are about selves, and one can reasonably expect that in writing an autobiography the authorial subject is making a claim of personal significance, and is, in the text, engaging in self-assertion and self-display. Might one not then question whether an autobiography which strives to portray the autobiographical subject’s selflessness could be effective? This is an important issue in relation to Albert Luthuli’s Let My People Go (19…
The Memory Box Project: Ethical Considerations of Memory Work Amongst Aids Orphans in South Africa
The Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa runs a variety of research and community development projects which aim to assist orphans and vulnerable children to take ownership of their history. Sinomlando is an isiZulu word meaning “we have a history.” Adapting the skills and methods of oral history, one of the programmes run by Sinomlando is the memory box project which helps families affected by HIV&AIDS and, to a lesser ex…
Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography
Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind us that the self is constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its status and representation are always in question. The contribut…
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
The Cambridge History has a generous compass: oral and written literature, dating back as far as current knowledge permits, in all the country's eleven official languages (but with little on Setswa
Engendering a Little More Truth: Gender and Genre in Shared Lives
In debunking the possibility of ‘an all-powerful theory’, Julia Kristeva argues that we need to pay attention to ‘the art and literature of our time, which remain alone, in our world of technological rationality, to impel us not toward the absolute but toward a quest for a little more truth, an impossible truth, concerning the meaning of speech, concerning our condition as speaking beings’. Shared Lives, Lyndall Gordon's biographical homage to th…
The ethics of nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa
The ethics of memory, for Avishai Margalit and Paul Ricoeur, means, respectively, remembering the past so as to foster more caring relationships and seeking the truth of the past and building a better future. In post-apartheid South Africa, a variety of memory practices bring to public attention reminders of apartheid, a past that must be remembered so that it will strengthen relationships amongst once-divided citizens and so that iniquities will…
Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa
Philippe Denis and Radikobo Ntsimane, eds. Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa . Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. viii & 196 pages, ISBN
White Women Writing White: Identity and Representation in (Post-)Apartheid Literatures of South Africa , by Mary West
Judith Lüütge Coullie, White Women Writing White: Identity and Representation in (Post-)Apartheid Literatures of South Africa, by Mary West, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 189-190
Telling the Life Story, Anxiously: The Memoirs of Teresa and Anna Campbell
Jürgen Schlaeger describes autobiography ("a discourse of anxiety") and biography ("a discourse of usurpation") as "distinctly different kinds of rhetorical constructions with different legitimizing strategies, grounds of authority, and points of view." Focusing on the memoirs of Teresa and Anna, daughters of the poet and writer, Roy Campbell (1901-1957) and his wife Mary (1898-1979), this essay examines the challenges arising when autobiography …
Remembering to forget: Testimony, collective memory and the genesis of the 'new' South African nation incountry of my skull
In this essay I consider the role of memory in the creation of the post-apartheid nation: how does memory - individual and communal - function in the shaping of nationhood? Specifically, how does a text such as Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, which seeks to straddle the divide of personal, individualised memory and collective memory, contribute to this process in post-apartheid South Africa? Drawing on the proliferation of testimonies which em…
Sterling work
A.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach: Critical Approaches to his Writings and Paintings
The essays in this volume hold up for scrutiny, in diverse ways, many facets of the artistic output of Breyten Breytenbach, the Afrikaans poet who first became a public figure in apartheid South Africa – his poetry, his fictional and non-fictional prose, his plays, and his painting and drawing. The approaches adopted by the authors of the essays range from the largely theoretical to the more popular forms of the interview and the review. Collecti…
A proper conversation: Some reflections on the role of psychoanalysis in literary study in South Africa
This paper asks: what are the epistemological and broader political implications of the employment of psychoanalytic theories in literary studies in South Africa? In the implicit endorsement of psychoanalytic theories of the subject in much poststructuralist and some postcolonial theory, academics subscribe to a value‐laden conception of the self. Psychoanalysis rejects as “primitive” notions of self such as those circulating amongst indigenous S…
The Race to be hero: Race and Gender in Roy Campbell’s Light on a Dark Horse
While blackness and femininity are interrogated, whiteness and masculinity come to seem to be incontestable and axiomatic. Thus race comes to mean that which is not white, while gender appears to signify femininity only
Not quite fiction’: The challenges of poststructuralism to the reading of contemporary South African autobiography
The ethics of nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa
The ethics of memory, for Avishai Margalit and Paul Ricoeur, means, respectively, remembering the past so as to foster more caring relationships and seeking the truth of the past and building a better future. In post-apartheid South Africa, a variety of memory practices bring to public attention reminders of apartheid, a past that must be remembered so that it will strengthen relationships amongst once-divided citizens and so that iniquities will…
Remembering to forget: Testimony, collective memory and the genesis of the 'new' South African nation incountry of my skull
In this essay I consider the role of memory in the creation of the post-apartheid nation: how does memory - individual and communal - function in the shaping of nationhood? Specifically, how does a text such as Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, which seeks to straddle the divide of personal, individualised memory and collective memory, contribute to this process in post-apartheid South Africa? Drawing on the proliferation of testimonies which em…
Telling the Life Story, Anxiously: The Memoirs of Teresa and Anna Campbell
Jürgen Schlaeger describes autobiography ("a discourse of anxiety") and biography ("a discourse of usurpation") as "distinctly different kinds of rhetorical constructions with different legitimizing strategies, grounds of authority, and points of view." Focusing on the memoirs of Teresa and Anna, daughters of the poet and writer, Roy Campbell (1901-1957) and his wife Mary (1898-1979), this essay examines the challenges arising when autobiography …
The Race to be hero: Race and Gender in Roy Campbell’s Light on a Dark Horse
While blackness and femininity are interrogated, whiteness and masculinity come to seem to be incontestable and axiomatic. Thus race comes to mean that which is not white, while gender appears to signify femininity only
Not quite fiction’: The challenges of poststructuralism to the reading of contemporary South African autobiography
The Race to be hero: Race and Gender in Roy Campbell’s Light on a Dark Horse
While blackness and femininity are interrogated, whiteness and masculinity come to seem to be incontestable and axiomatic. Thus race comes to mean that which is not white, while gender appears to signify femininity only
A proper conversation: Some reflections on the role of psychoanalysis in literary study in South Africa
This paper asks: what are the epistemological and broader political implications of the employment of psychoanalytic theories in literary studies in South Africa? In the implicit endorsement of psychoanalytic theories of the subject in much poststructuralist and some postcolonial theory, academics subscribe to a value‐laden conception of the self. Psychoanalysis rejects as “primitive” notions of self such as those circulating amongst indigenous S…
A.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach: Critical Approaches to his Writings and Paintings
The essays in this volume hold up for scrutiny, in diverse ways, many facets of the artistic output of Breyten Breytenbach, the Afrikaans poet who first became a public figure in apartheid South Africa – his poetry, his fictional and non-fictional prose, his plays, and his painting and drawing. The approaches adopted by the authors of the essays range from the largely theoretical to the more popular forms of the interview and the review. Collecti…
Sterling work
Remembering to forget: Testimony, collective memory and the genesis of the 'new' South African nation incountry of my skull
In this essay I consider the role of memory in the creation of the post-apartheid nation: how does memory - individual and communal - function in the shaping of nationhood? Specifically, how does a text such as Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, which seeks to straddle the divide of personal, individualised memory and collective memory, contribute to this process in post-apartheid South Africa? Drawing on the proliferation of testimonies which em…
Telling the Life Story, Anxiously: The Memoirs of Teresa and Anna Campbell
Jürgen Schlaeger describes autobiography ("a discourse of anxiety") and biography ("a discourse of usurpation") as "distinctly different kinds of rhetorical constructions with different legitimizing strategies, grounds of authority, and points of view." Focusing on the memoirs of Teresa and Anna, daughters of the poet and writer, Roy Campbell (1901-1957) and his wife Mary (1898-1979), this essay examines the challenges arising when autobiography …
Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa
Philippe Denis and Radikobo Ntsimane, eds. Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa . Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. viii & 196 pages, ISBN
White Women Writing White: Identity and Representation in (Post-)Apartheid Literatures of South Africa , by Mary West
Judith Lüütge Coullie, White Women Writing White: Identity and Representation in (Post-)Apartheid Literatures of South Africa, by Mary West, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 189-190
The ethics of nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa
The ethics of memory, for Avishai Margalit and Paul Ricoeur, means, respectively, remembering the past so as to foster more caring relationships and seeking the truth of the past and building a better future. In post-apartheid South Africa, a variety of memory practices bring to public attention reminders of apartheid, a past that must be remembered so that it will strengthen relationships amongst once-divided citizens and so that iniquities will…
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
The Cambridge History has a generous compass: oral and written literature, dating back as far as current knowledge permits, in all the country's eleven official languages (but with little on Setswa
Engendering a Little More Truth: Gender and Genre in Shared Lives
In debunking the possibility of ‘an all-powerful theory’, Julia Kristeva argues that we need to pay attention to ‘the art and literature of our time, which remain alone, in our world of technological rationality, to impel us not toward the absolute but toward a quest for a little more truth, an impossible truth, concerning the meaning of speech, concerning our condition as speaking beings’. Shared Lives, Lyndall Gordon's biographical homage to th…
Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography
Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind us that the self is constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its status and representation are always in question. The contribut…
The Memory Box Project: Ethical Considerations of Memory Work Amongst Aids Orphans in South Africa
The Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa runs a variety of research and community development projects which aim to assist orphans and vulnerable children to take ownership of their history. Sinomlando is an isiZulu word meaning “we have a history.” Adapting the skills and methods of oral history, one of the programmes run by Sinomlando is the memory box project which helps families affected by HIV&AIDS and, to a lesser ex…
The Paradox of ‘Impersonal Autobiography’: Albert Luthuli’s Let My People Go
Autobiographies are about selves, and one can reasonably expect that in writing an autobiography the authorial subject is making a claim of personal significance, and is, in the text, engaging in self-assertion and self-display. Might one not then question whether an autobiography which strives to portray the autobiographical subject’s selflessness could be effective? This is an important issue in relation to Albert Luthuli’s Let My People Go (19…
Current Writing 39 (2) 2027 Special Issue: Life Writing in/on Southern Africa
Sociology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · South African History and Culture (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (5 works)