Janet Remmington
Biographic Data
| ID | 1744058 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Remmington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Remmington |
| SIGNATURE | REMMINGTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7925-8076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa
This chapter focuses on the Cape Colony publication, Izwi Labantu , which appeared in a combination of languages – isiXhosa, Sesotho and English. The Cape Colony’s emergent African-language public sphere at the end of the nineteenth century faced formidable political and economic obstacles: the erosion of the African franchise, encroachment on African land and British- and Boer-ruled polities fighting for control over the sub-continent. The two m…
Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa
19. Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa: The Cape African Newspaper Izwi Labantu, 1897–1909 was published in The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals on page 300.
Activist travel and decolonial worldmaking
The Art of Life in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner
Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa
You want people to see you in all your nuanced variety”
Born in Nigeria in 1976, Noo Saro-Wiwa grew up in the UK. In 2008 she took a trip around the country of her birth. The journey resulted in her first book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (Granta, 2012). It was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and the Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year in 2012. In this interview with Nicklas Hållén and Janet Remmington, Saro-Wiwa covers a range of topics and reflections, including (tran…
Solomon Plaatje's Decade of Creative Mobility, 1912-1922
This article foregrounds the hitherto relatively unexplored travel–writing nexus that characterised the extraordinarily mobile and textually productive, if personally precarious, decade (1912–1922) of Solomon T. Plaatje, founding General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (later African National Congress) and South Africa's first black novelist in English. Drawing on cross-disciplinary work, including ‘travel writing’ and ‘tr…
Native life in South Africa
Native life in South Africa
Solomon Plaatje's Decade of Creative Mobility, 1912-1922
This article foregrounds the hitherto relatively unexplored travel–writing nexus that characterised the extraordinarily mobile and textually productive, if personally precarious, decade (1912–1922) of Solomon T. Plaatje, founding General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (later African National Congress) and South Africa's first black novelist in English. Drawing on cross-disciplinary work, including ‘travel writing’ and ‘tr…
Native life in South Africa
Solomon Plaatje's Decade of Creative Mobility, 1912-1922
This article foregrounds the hitherto relatively unexplored travel–writing nexus that characterised the extraordinarily mobile and textually productive, if personally precarious, decade (1912–1922) of Solomon T. Plaatje, founding General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress (later African National Congress) and South Africa's first black novelist in English. Drawing on cross-disciplinary work, including ‘travel writing’ and ‘tr…
You want people to see you in all your nuanced variety”
Born in Nigeria in 1976, Noo Saro-Wiwa grew up in the UK. In 2008 she took a trip around the country of her birth. The journey resulted in her first book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (Granta, 2012). It was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and the Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year in 2012. In this interview with Nicklas Hållén and Janet Remmington, Saro-Wiwa covers a range of topics and reflections, including (tran…
Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa
The Art of Life in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner
Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa
This chapter focuses on the Cape Colony publication, Izwi Labantu , which appeared in a combination of languages – isiXhosa, Sesotho and English. The Cape Colony’s emergent African-language public sphere at the end of the nineteenth century faced formidable political and economic obstacles: the erosion of the African franchise, encroachment on African land and British- and Boer-ruled polities fighting for control over the sub-continent. The two m…
Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa
19. Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa: The Cape African Newspaper Izwi Labantu, 1897–1909 was published in The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals on page 300.
Activist travel and decolonial worldmaking
South African History and Culture (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)