Lily Saint
Biographic Data
| ID | 180397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lily Saint |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lily |
| FAMILY NAME | Saint |
| SIGNATURE | SAINT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Necessary paradox: A new method for postcolonial history
Necessary paradox: a new method for postcolonial history." Journal of the African Literature Association, 14(2), pp. 325–326
My Quest for Recognition: Existentialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga'sThe Book of Not
Read together, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s trilogy provides an extended meditation on how colonial and postcolonial worlds affect the existential life of the colonized subject. Each novel dwells with Tamb
Introduction: Genre in Africa
In this introduction to this special issue, “Genre and Africa,” Jaji and Saint theorize genre from the perspective of the African continent to explore how such an orientation necessarily interrogates and transforms previous understandings of genre. After a brief review of pivotal work in genre studies, the authors turn to Africa’s particular colonial and postcolonial predicaments to theorize the specific interventions to genre theory that such a …
Forward never, backward ever: Reading lessons in David Scott's Omens of adversity: tragedy, time, memory, justice
Response: “Why Slavery Now?” Django Unchained as a History of the Present
This response considers Django Unchained in light of Quentin Tarantino’s comments about the relationship between films on slavery and national “healing.” The essay draws upon the roundtable discussion on Django Unchained, to address the contemporary relevance of Tarantino’s historical retelling.
You Kiss in Westerns’: Cultural translation in Moustapha Alassane’s Le retour d’un aventurier
Le retour d’un aventurier/The Return of an Adventurer, a 1966 short film by Nigerien director Moustapha Alassane, stands at the forefront of a long history of fascination with cowboys in African film-making (Alassane, 1966a). This article revisits Le retour via recent theoretical considerations of cultural assimilation and translation, to argue that instances of cultural appropriation from non-African sources should not be dismissed under the rub…
Roundtable on Invictus
Albert Grundlingh Saturday 24 June 1995 was a red letter day in South Africa. Before a capacity crowd at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg and with millions more watching the finals of the Rugby W
Reading subjects: Passbooks, Literature and Apartheid
Between 1916 and 1981, 17.25 million black South Africans were arrested for pass-law infringements. Though passbooks were pivotal texts in the lives of many South Africans, scholarship has focused mostly on their role in administering labour influxes. Thus the implications of having books facilitate state power have been largely unexplored. This article considers passbooks as books to examine how they narrated lives and conditioned various politi…
Books
Not Western: Race, Reading, and the South African Photocomic
Photocomics were widely popular in South Africa in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, yet they have received little critical attention. This article has two goals. First, it seeks to contextualise the production and consumption of photocomics during apartheid. Second, focusing on one popular form of the photocomic – the Western – I look at how narrative and aesthetic conventions of the form reinforced, yet simultaneously disturbed, the apartheid state's…
Not Western: Race, Reading, and the South African Photocomic
Photocomics were widely popular in South Africa in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, yet they have received little critical attention. This article has two goals. First, it seeks to contextualise the production and consumption of photocomics during apartheid. Second, focusing on one popular form of the photocomic – the Western – I look at how narrative and aesthetic conventions of the form reinforced, yet simultaneously disturbed, the apartheid state's…
Introduction: Genre in Africa
In this introduction to this special issue, “Genre and Africa,” Jaji and Saint theorize genre from the perspective of the African continent to explore how such an orientation necessarily interrogates and transforms previous understandings of genre. After a brief review of pivotal work in genre studies, the authors turn to Africa’s particular colonial and postcolonial predicaments to theorize the specific interventions to genre theory that such a …
My Quest for Recognition: Existentialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga'sThe Book of Not
Read together, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s trilogy provides an extended meditation on how colonial and postcolonial worlds affect the existential life of the colonized subject. Each novel dwells with Tamb
You Kiss in Westerns’: Cultural translation in Moustapha Alassane’s Le retour d’un aventurier
Le retour d’un aventurier/The Return of an Adventurer, a 1966 short film by Nigerien director Moustapha Alassane, stands at the forefront of a long history of fascination with cowboys in African film-making (Alassane, 1966a). This article revisits Le retour via recent theoretical considerations of cultural assimilation and translation, to argue that instances of cultural appropriation from non-African sources should not be dismissed under the rub…
Reading subjects: Passbooks, Literature and Apartheid
Between 1916 and 1981, 17.25 million black South Africans were arrested for pass-law infringements. Though passbooks were pivotal texts in the lives of many South Africans, scholarship has focused mostly on their role in administering labour influxes. Thus the implications of having books facilitate state power have been largely unexplored. This article considers passbooks as books to examine how they narrated lives and conditioned various politi…
Not Western: Race, Reading, and the South African Photocomic
Photocomics were widely popular in South Africa in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, yet they have received little critical attention. This article has two goals. First, it seeks to contextualise the production and consumption of photocomics during apartheid. Second, focusing on one popular form of the photocomic – the Western – I look at how narrative and aesthetic conventions of the form reinforced, yet simultaneously disturbed, the apartheid state's…
Books
Roundtable on Invictus
Albert Grundlingh Saturday 24 June 1995 was a red letter day in South Africa. Before a capacity crowd at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg and with millions more watching the finals of the Rugby W
Reading subjects: Passbooks, Literature and Apartheid
Between 1916 and 1981, 17.25 million black South Africans were arrested for pass-law infringements. Though passbooks were pivotal texts in the lives of many South Africans, scholarship has focused mostly on their role in administering labour influxes. Thus the implications of having books facilitate state power have been largely unexplored. This article considers passbooks as books to examine how they narrated lives and conditioned various politi…
You Kiss in Westerns’: Cultural translation in Moustapha Alassane’s Le retour d’un aventurier
Le retour d’un aventurier/The Return of an Adventurer, a 1966 short film by Nigerien director Moustapha Alassane, stands at the forefront of a long history of fascination with cowboys in African film-making (Alassane, 1966a). This article revisits Le retour via recent theoretical considerations of cultural assimilation and translation, to argue that instances of cultural appropriation from non-African sources should not be dismissed under the rub…
Response: “Why Slavery Now?” Django Unchained as a History of the Present
This response considers Django Unchained in light of Quentin Tarantino’s comments about the relationship between films on slavery and national “healing.” The essay draws upon the roundtable discussion on Django Unchained, to address the contemporary relevance of Tarantino’s historical retelling.
Forward never, backward ever: Reading lessons in David Scott's Omens of adversity: tragedy, time, memory, justice
Introduction: Genre in Africa
In this introduction to this special issue, “Genre and Africa,” Jaji and Saint theorize genre from the perspective of the African continent to explore how such an orientation necessarily interrogates and transforms previous understandings of genre. After a brief review of pivotal work in genre studies, the authors turn to Africa’s particular colonial and postcolonial predicaments to theorize the specific interventions to genre theory that such a …
Necessary paradox: A new method for postcolonial history
Necessary paradox: a new method for postcolonial history." Journal of the African Literature Association, 14(2), pp. 325–326
My Quest for Recognition: Existentialism in Tsitsi Dangarembga'sThe Book of Not
Read together, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s trilogy provides an extended meditation on how colonial and postcolonial worlds affect the existential life of the colonized subject. Each novel dwells with Tamb
Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · History (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works)