Gerhard Genis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1548623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerhard Genis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Genis |
| SIGNATURE | GENIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6097-5681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jackals with muddy whiskers
Translanguaging in the classroom
This article explores learners’ experiences of using translanguaging as a strategy for learning English as a First Additional Language by examining the opportunities and barriers associated with it. We followed a qualitative research design and conducted six focus group discussions with 44 multilingual learners who participated in after-school peer-tutoring programmes. These learners came from township schools in Gauteng province, South Africa. A…
War Poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War
This article argues for a conceptualisation of war poetry as a corporeal re-membering that encapsulates trauma as literary theme through the ‘poetic bodies’ construct. The ‘poetic bodies’ concept implies that literary language, the physical and psychological body, and the environment interact to create ontological meaning through poetry. Therefore, the discussion takes place within a ‘poetic bodies’ epistemological framework, as it resonates with…
The Ragged Girl Doll (The Dea(f)th of Feminism)
The Re-membering of Literary Bodies in the Zimbabwean Classroom
This article explores ways in which literary and physical bodies are interlinked in a high-school English literature classroom in Zimbabwe. In this study, twenty-four Grade 12 learners, who are conceptualised as living human bodies closely connected through intergenerational memory, responded to an indigenous literary body, the set novel The Uncertainty of Hope (Harare: Weaver Press, 2006) by Valerie Tagwira. The learners’ responses were in the f…
A Haunting of Ancestors’
This paper focuses on the interaction of language, the physical and psychological body and the environment in creating a conjuring of ancestors in indigenous South African poetry. The ‘haunting’ of the ancestors is mirrored by the intergenerational word-traces in the indigenous poems. These ‘poetic bodies’ are laced with word and phrase markers that consist of culturalspecific metonyms, metaphors and archetypes. The poetic bodies are subsequently…
South African War Poetry of the Twentieth Century
War poetry by South Africans represents the embodiment of angry poetic bodies. These bodies are conduits for Fanonian “muscular demonstrations”. They embody reaction and resistance to world conflicts and colonial oppression of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and carry textual traces of intergenerational memory construction and trauma. The construct of poetic bodies serves as a conceptual framework through which to analyse the war expe…
Pedagogical practices in non-formal adult literacy classes in Zambia
The “bit-less” corpse or mannequin manqué
In this article, I discuss South African Great War1 poetry within a psychoanalytical, postcolonial and poststructuralist framework. This body of poems has never been analysed and reveals the embodiment of blackness, whiteness, masculinity, colonialism and empire during the early twentieth-century South Africa. Essentially, it is the poetry that rhythmically murmurs about the relationship between life and death, object and abject, as well as suffe…
Pedagogical practices in non-formal adult literacy classes in Zambia
The “bit-less” corpse or mannequin manqué
In this article, I discuss South African Great War1 poetry within a psychoanalytical, postcolonial and poststructuralist framework. This body of poems has never been analysed and reveals the embodiment of blackness, whiteness, masculinity, colonialism and empire during the early twentieth-century South Africa. Essentially, it is the poetry that rhythmically murmurs about the relationship between life and death, object and abject, as well as suffe…
The “bit-less” corpse or mannequin manqué
In this article, I discuss South African Great War1 poetry within a psychoanalytical, postcolonial and poststructuralist framework. This body of poems has never been analysed and reveals the embodiment of blackness, whiteness, masculinity, colonialism and empire during the early twentieth-century South Africa. Essentially, it is the poetry that rhythmically murmurs about the relationship between life and death, object and abject, as well as suffe…
Pedagogical practices in non-formal adult literacy classes in Zambia
A Haunting of Ancestors’
This paper focuses on the interaction of language, the physical and psychological body and the environment in creating a conjuring of ancestors in indigenous South African poetry. The ‘haunting’ of the ancestors is mirrored by the intergenerational word-traces in the indigenous poems. These ‘poetic bodies’ are laced with word and phrase markers that consist of culturalspecific metonyms, metaphors and archetypes. The poetic bodies are subsequently…
South African War Poetry of the Twentieth Century
War poetry by South Africans represents the embodiment of angry poetic bodies. These bodies are conduits for Fanonian “muscular demonstrations”. They embody reaction and resistance to world conflicts and colonial oppression of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and carry textual traces of intergenerational memory construction and trauma. The construct of poetic bodies serves as a conceptual framework through which to analyse the war expe…
The Re-membering of Literary Bodies in the Zimbabwean Classroom
This article explores ways in which literary and physical bodies are interlinked in a high-school English literature classroom in Zimbabwe. In this study, twenty-four Grade 12 learners, who are conceptualised as living human bodies closely connected through intergenerational memory, responded to an indigenous literary body, the set novel The Uncertainty of Hope (Harare: Weaver Press, 2006) by Valerie Tagwira. The learners’ responses were in the f…
Translanguaging in the classroom
This article explores learners’ experiences of using translanguaging as a strategy for learning English as a First Additional Language by examining the opportunities and barriers associated with it. We followed a qualitative research design and conducted six focus group discussions with 44 multilingual learners who participated in after-school peer-tutoring programmes. These learners came from township schools in Gauteng province, South Africa. A…
War Poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War
This article argues for a conceptualisation of war poetry as a corporeal re-membering that encapsulates trauma as literary theme through the ‘poetic bodies’ construct. The ‘poetic bodies’ concept implies that literary language, the physical and psychological body, and the environment interact to create ontological meaning through poetry. Therefore, the discussion takes place within a ‘poetic bodies’ epistemological framework, as it resonates with…
The Ragged Girl Doll (The Dea(f)th of Feminism)
Jackals with muddy whiskers
Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works)