Andy Carolin
Biographic Data
| ID | 143495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andy Carolin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andy |
| FAMILY NAME | Carolin |
| SIGNATURE | CAROLIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5869-8876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using WhatsApp to Teach Close Reading
This article explores the use of the instant messaging app, WhatsApp, to teach close reading, critical thinking, and argumentation skills. Academic and argumentative essays continue to be the dominant form of both formative and summative assessments, particularly in literary studies. However, many students who enter university in South Africa struggle with academic writing, particularly in the form of academic essays, to make arguments about lite…
Failure as/in the queer bildungsroman
The Eternal Audience of One (Rémy Ngamije)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities
This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within the specific context of post-apartheid South Africa, it also looks outwards towards transnational connectivity and cultural flows. The author uses the i…
Introduction
(2020). Introduction: Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness. Journal of Literary Studies: Vol. 36, Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness, pp. 1-8
A Tree for the Birds (Vernon R.L. Head)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
South African Gay Pages and the politics of whiteness
In this article, I use Gay Pages as a local archive of cultural meaning to think about the relationship between race, sexuality, and identity in a post-apartheid context. Through an analysis of the quarterly magazine series, I focus on how an invisible and unacknowledged whiteness marks privileged ways of both speaking and being heard. I argue that whiteness continues to function as the custodian of the normative in much of South Africa’s public …
Transnational imaginaries and the negotiation of sexual rights during the South African transition
In this article, we trace the transnational cultural flows that shaped the recognition of sexual rights as human rights during the transition to democracy in South Africa. Through a close reading of Beverley Ditsie and Nicky Newman’s documentary film, Simon & I (2002), we investigate the contested history of postapartheid sexual rights in which local cultural politics overlap and intersect with transnational agents, ideologies, and affect. Ditsie…
Appropriating Herman Charles Bosman
This article focuses on two recent short stories that appropriate features of the literary works of Herman Charles Bosman, one of South Africa’s most prolific short story writers. The two stories that I examine appear in different texts, neither of which has received sustained critical attention. Whereas Emil Rorke’s “Poisoned Grief” was published in an anthology of short stories titled Queer Africa (2013), Richard de Nooy’s untitled short story …
Locating Sexual Rights in the Anti-apartheid Movement
While the anti-apartheid movement was in many ways one of the moral flagbearers of the global human rights project of the 1980s, its initial heteronormative impulses point to gaps in its conceptualisation of rights. This article offers a close reading of Robert Colman's Your Loving Simon (2003), a stage drama that examines the contested place of sexuality within discourses of the liberation movement. The play focuses on the imprisonment of Simon …
A Gap in the Hedge (Johan Vlok Louw)
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.
The Uncertain Future of the South African University
It has been said that ‘South Africa has truly become a country defined by its protests: a protest nation’.1 For many, this sentiment rings true, given the ubiquity of protests, whether against loca
Apartheid's Immorality Act and the fiction of heteronormative whiteness
This article traces both the centrality and fragility of the figure of the heterosexual white male to the moral and ideological core of the apartheid regime. Through a comparative reading of Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Gerald Kraak's Ice in the Lungs (2006), the article examines how apartheid's Immorality Act functioned as the legislative mechanism to produce and police heteronormative whiteness. The randomness and unpredictab…
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
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.
Imraan Coovadia’s Post-transitional Palimpsest
It is widely accepted that South African literature has undergone considerable thematic and stylistic shifts since the transitional decade of the 1990s. However, literary scholarship is divided not only as to the extent of these shifts but also as to what should be emphasised when mapping their contours. In this article, I focus on two of Imraan Coovadia’s recent novels that point to a post-transitional literary landscape in South Africa. Focusin…
Breyten Breytenbach, A Monologue in Two Voices/Sandra Saayman
In A Monologue in Two Voices, Sandra Saayman argues that Breyten Breytenbach’s poetry and prose should be read alongside his paintings and drawings. The book focuses particularly on the literary and visual texts that Breytenbach produced during and about his imprisonment in the 1970s and 1980s. Saayman considers not only representations of the personal experiences of the author/artist but she also identifies instances in which Breytenbach engages…
A Novel Archive of Intimacy
Tracing the figure of the archive, this article examines the ways in which official sites of memorialisation either erase or radically desexualise the histories of sexual minorities. Furthermore, the article examines the epistemological status of fiction as an alternative archive of marginalised voices and experiences. I focus particularly on Gerald Kraak's novel Ice in the Lungs (2006) to reveal the importance of literature in reinscribing a gay…
Constructing post-colonial African sexualities
In this article, my intention is to explore the radically different ways in which same-sex sexualities are being discursively constructed in two different parts of Africa. The texts’ different socio-political and geographic contexts serve to complicate singular understandings of how sexuality operates and is performed on the continent. The focus is on how different narrative modes – in particular, a memoir and a novel – construct and shift partic…
Apartheid's Immorality Act and the fiction of heteronormative whiteness
This article traces both the centrality and fragility of the figure of the heterosexual white male to the moral and ideological core of the apartheid regime. Through a comparative reading of Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Gerald Kraak's Ice in the Lungs (2006), the article examines how apartheid's Immorality Act functioned as the legislative mechanism to produce and police heteronormative whiteness. The randomness and unpredictab…
South African Gay Pages and the politics of whiteness
In this article, I use Gay Pages as a local archive of cultural meaning to think about the relationship between race, sexuality, and identity in a post-apartheid context. Through an analysis of the quarterly magazine series, I focus on how an invisible and unacknowledged whiteness marks privileged ways of both speaking and being heard. I argue that whiteness continues to function as the custodian of the normative in much of South Africa’s public …
Transnational imaginaries and the negotiation of sexual rights during the South African transition
In this article, we trace the transnational cultural flows that shaped the recognition of sexual rights as human rights during the transition to democracy in South Africa. Through a close reading of Beverley Ditsie and Nicky Newman’s documentary film, Simon & I (2002), we investigate the contested history of postapartheid sexual rights in which local cultural politics overlap and intersect with transnational agents, ideologies, and affect. Ditsie…
Locating Sexual Rights in the Anti-apartheid Movement
While the anti-apartheid movement was in many ways one of the moral flagbearers of the global human rights project of the 1980s, its initial heteronormative impulses point to gaps in its conceptualisation of rights. This article offers a close reading of Robert Colman's Your Loving Simon (2003), a stage drama that examines the contested place of sexuality within discourses of the liberation movement. The play focuses on the imprisonment of Simon …
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
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.
Constructing post-colonial African sexualities
In this article, my intention is to explore the radically different ways in which same-sex sexualities are being discursively constructed in two different parts of Africa. The texts’ different socio-political and geographic contexts serve to complicate singular understandings of how sexuality operates and is performed on the continent. The focus is on how different narrative modes – in particular, a memoir and a novel – construct and shift partic…
Constructing post-colonial African sexualities
In this article, my intention is to explore the radically different ways in which same-sex sexualities are being discursively constructed in two different parts of Africa. The texts’ different socio-political and geographic contexts serve to complicate singular understandings of how sexuality operates and is performed on the continent. The focus is on how different narrative modes – in particular, a memoir and a novel – construct and shift partic…
A Novel Archive of Intimacy
Tracing the figure of the archive, this article examines the ways in which official sites of memorialisation either erase or radically desexualise the histories of sexual minorities. Furthermore, the article examines the epistemological status of fiction as an alternative archive of marginalised voices and experiences. I focus particularly on Gerald Kraak's novel Ice in the Lungs (2006) to reveal the importance of literature in reinscribing a gay…
Imraan Coovadia’s Post-transitional Palimpsest
It is widely accepted that South African literature has undergone considerable thematic and stylistic shifts since the transitional decade of the 1990s. However, literary scholarship is divided not only as to the extent of these shifts but also as to what should be emphasised when mapping their contours. In this article, I focus on two of Imraan Coovadia’s recent novels that point to a post-transitional literary landscape in South Africa. Focusin…
Breyten Breytenbach, A Monologue in Two Voices/Sandra Saayman
In A Monologue in Two Voices, Sandra Saayman argues that Breyten Breytenbach’s poetry and prose should be read alongside his paintings and drawings. The book focuses particularly on the literary and visual texts that Breytenbach produced during and about his imprisonment in the 1970s and 1980s. Saayman considers not only representations of the personal experiences of the author/artist but she also identifies instances in which Breytenbach engages…
Apartheid's Immorality Act and the fiction of heteronormative whiteness
This article traces both the centrality and fragility of the figure of the heterosexual white male to the moral and ideological core of the apartheid regime. Through a comparative reading of Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Gerald Kraak's Ice in the Lungs (2006), the article examines how apartheid's Immorality Act functioned as the legislative mechanism to produce and police heteronormative whiteness. The randomness and unpredictab…
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
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.
Appropriating Herman Charles Bosman
This article focuses on two recent short stories that appropriate features of the literary works of Herman Charles Bosman, one of South Africa’s most prolific short story writers. The two stories that I examine appear in different texts, neither of which has received sustained critical attention. Whereas Emil Rorke’s “Poisoned Grief” was published in an anthology of short stories titled Queer Africa (2013), Richard de Nooy’s untitled short story …
Locating Sexual Rights in the Anti-apartheid Movement
While the anti-apartheid movement was in many ways one of the moral flagbearers of the global human rights project of the 1980s, its initial heteronormative impulses point to gaps in its conceptualisation of rights. This article offers a close reading of Robert Colman's Your Loving Simon (2003), a stage drama that examines the contested place of sexuality within discourses of the liberation movement. The play focuses on the imprisonment of Simon …
A Gap in the Hedge (Johan Vlok Louw)
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.
The Uncertain Future of the South African University
It has been said that ‘South Africa has truly become a country defined by its protests: a protest nation’.1 For many, this sentiment rings true, given the ubiquity of protests, whether against loca
South African Gay Pages and the politics of whiteness
In this article, I use Gay Pages as a local archive of cultural meaning to think about the relationship between race, sexuality, and identity in a post-apartheid context. Through an analysis of the quarterly magazine series, I focus on how an invisible and unacknowledged whiteness marks privileged ways of both speaking and being heard. I argue that whiteness continues to function as the custodian of the normative in much of South Africa’s public …
Transnational imaginaries and the negotiation of sexual rights during the South African transition
In this article, we trace the transnational cultural flows that shaped the recognition of sexual rights as human rights during the transition to democracy in South Africa. Through a close reading of Beverley Ditsie and Nicky Newman’s documentary film, Simon & I (2002), we investigate the contested history of postapartheid sexual rights in which local cultural politics overlap and intersect with transnational agents, ideologies, and affect. Ditsie…
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities
This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture. While the book situates these texts within the specific context of post-apartheid South Africa, it also looks outwards towards transnational connectivity and cultural flows. The author uses the i…
Introduction
(2020). Introduction: Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness. Journal of Literary Studies: Vol. 36, Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness, pp. 1-8
A Tree for the Birds (Vernon R.L. Head)
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
The Eternal Audience of One (Rémy Ngamije)
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
Using WhatsApp to Teach Close Reading
This article explores the use of the instant messaging app, WhatsApp, to teach close reading, critical thinking, and argumentation skills. Academic and argumentative essays continue to be the dominant form of both formative and summative assessments, particularly in literary studies. However, many students who enter university in South Africa struggle with academic writing, particularly in the form of academic essays, to make arguments about lite…
Failure as/in the queer bildungsroman
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · South African History and Culture (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art (9 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)