Ntongela Masilela
Biographic Data
| ID | 176998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ntongela Masilela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ntongela |
| FAMILY NAME | Masilela |
| SIGNATURE | MASILELA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pitzer College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Presence Africaine and the Emergence of African Film Criticism
The essay was written in celebration of' the centennial year (1995) of the birth or the cinema
Lover of His People
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Remembering Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, who passed away at his home in Fourways, Johannesburg, on 12 April 2013, gave the lie to any idea that academics live cloistered in ivory towers removed from
The Political and Intellectual World of Bernard Makhosozwe Magubane (1930–2013)
Bernard Mahosozwe Magubane, whose death preceded that of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela by several months, was one of the last intellectual giants of the New African Movement in South African history. H
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the…
Becoming Worthy Ancestors
Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa…
Grappling with the Beast
This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces. Contributors include distinguished global scholars in the field as well as exciting young scholars. The essays l…
The Dassie and the Hunter
Reviewed by: The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting Ntongela Masilela The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting By Jeff Opland. Durban: U of KwaZulu-Natal P, 2005. 389 pp. ISBN 1-86914-036-2 hardback. In this unusual but pertinent book, Jeff Opland reconstructs the interaction between himself, an eminent scholar of Xhosa literature, and David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi (1926–1999), the distinguished Xhosa imbongi (poet…
Peter Abrahams in the modern African world
The article advances and refines Paul Gilroy's oft‐ignored characterisation of the Black Atlantic as an ‘assemblage’ in order to return to its Deleuzean provenance whereby an assemblage expresses a flux of becoming rather than a static belonging. In the autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es'kia Mphahlele becoming is evidenced by a sophisticated memoric repetition of Afro‐American figures of memory, involving as they do lines of flight and, in …
Xhosa Poets and Poetry (review)
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Book Review| July 01 2003 Xhosa Poets and Poetry Xhosa Poets and Poetry, Jeff Opland. Ntongela Masilela Ntongela Masilela Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (461): 364. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137797 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ntongela Masilela; Xhosa Poets and Poetry. Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2003;…
Thelma Gutsche
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNtongela MasilelaHe has written extensively on African cinema
South Africa's Alternative Press
The Return of Mazisi Kunene to South Africa
No abstract
People of the Great Sandface
“The final year in the traditional life of the last free‐living !Gwikwe Bushmen of the central Kalahari Desert of Botswana, before they followed others to a government settlement, becomes a moving and sensitive celebration of their struggle for survival. Having learnt the techniques needed to make the film single‐handedly Paul Myburgh went to extraordinary lengths of physical endurance and deprivation to put on record the last group of bushmen li…
Sterling A. Brown
Ngugi wa Thiongo's Petals of Blood
No abstract
Theory, Praxis and History
No abstract
Theory and History of Marxist Poetics in Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to Violence
No abstract
Theoretical and Historical Forms in and of the Novel
No abstract
Anniversaries
No abstract
Amil Cabral
[No abstract]
Thelma Gutsche
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNtongela MasilelaHe has written extensively on African cinema
People of the Great Sandface
“The final year in the traditional life of the last free‐living !Gwikwe Bushmen of the central Kalahari Desert of Botswana, before they followed others to a government settlement, becomes a moving and sensitive celebration of their struggle for survival. Having learnt the techniques needed to make the film single‐handedly Paul Myburgh went to extraordinary lengths of physical endurance and deprivation to put on record the last group of bushmen li…
Presence Africaine and the Emergence of African Film Criticism
The essay was written in celebration of' the centennial year (1995) of the birth or the cinema
Remembering Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, who passed away at his home in Fourways, Johannesburg, on 12 April 2013, gave the lie to any idea that academics live cloistered in ivory towers removed from
The Political and Intellectual World of Bernard Makhosozwe Magubane (1930–2013)
Bernard Mahosozwe Magubane, whose death preceded that of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela by several months, was one of the last intellectual giants of the New African Movement in South African history. H
Anniversaries
No abstract
Amil Cabral
[No abstract]
Theory and History of Marxist Poetics in Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to Violence
No abstract
Theoretical and Historical Forms in and of the Novel
No abstract
Theory, Praxis and History
No abstract
Ngugi wa Thiongo's Petals of Blood
No abstract
Sterling A. Brown
People of the Great Sandface
“The final year in the traditional life of the last free‐living !Gwikwe Bushmen of the central Kalahari Desert of Botswana, before they followed others to a government settlement, becomes a moving and sensitive celebration of their struggle for survival. Having learnt the techniques needed to make the film single‐handedly Paul Myburgh went to extraordinary lengths of physical endurance and deprivation to put on record the last group of bushmen li…
The Return of Mazisi Kunene to South Africa
No abstract
South Africa's Alternative Press
Thelma Gutsche
Additional informationNotes on contributorsNtongela MasilelaHe has written extensively on African cinema
Xhosa Poets and Poetry (review)
Xhosa Poets and Poetry
Book Review| July 01 2003 Xhosa Poets and Poetry Xhosa Poets and Poetry, Jeff Opland. Ntongela Masilela Ntongela Masilela Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (461): 364. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137797 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ntongela Masilela; Xhosa Poets and Poetry. Journal of American Folklore 1 January 2003;…
Peter Abrahams in the modern African world
The article advances and refines Paul Gilroy's oft‐ignored characterisation of the Black Atlantic as an ‘assemblage’ in order to return to its Deleuzean provenance whereby an assemblage expresses a flux of becoming rather than a static belonging. In the autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es'kia Mphahlele becoming is evidenced by a sophisticated memoric repetition of Afro‐American figures of memory, involving as they do lines of flight and, in …
The Dassie and the Hunter
Reviewed by: The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting Ntongela Masilela The Dassie and the Hunter: A South African Meeting By Jeff Opland. Durban: U of KwaZulu-Natal P, 2005. 389 pp. ISBN 1-86914-036-2 hardback. In this unusual but pertinent book, Jeff Opland reconstructs the interaction between himself, an eminent scholar of Xhosa literature, and David Livingstone Phakamile Yali-Manisi (1926–1999), the distinguished Xhosa imbongi (poet…
Grappling with the Beast
This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces. Contributors include distinguished global scholars in the field as well as exciting young scholars. The essays l…
Becoming Worthy Ancestors
Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa…
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the…
Remembering Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, who passed away at his home in Fourways, Johannesburg, on 12 April 2013, gave the lie to any idea that academics live cloistered in ivory towers removed from
The Political and Intellectual World of Bernard Makhosozwe Magubane (1930–2013)
Bernard Mahosozwe Magubane, whose death preceded that of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela by several months, was one of the last intellectual giants of the New African Movement in South African history. H
Lover of His People
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
Presence Africaine and the Emergence of African Film Criticism
The essay was written in celebration of' the centennial year (1995) of the birth or the cinema
Art (14 works) · History (13 works) · South African History and Culture (11 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works)