C Coetzee
Biographic Data
| ID | 18216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Coetzee |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Coetzee |
| SIGNATURE | COETZEE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1526-7862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Regenerates
Nigerian Campus Forms
Afrikaner faith and ordentlikheid
Slow Research and Peer Support: An Alternative Model of Networking
The Myth of Oxford and Black Counter-Narratives
The myth of Oxford, which echoes and replicates the ideology of an unchanging world of privileged white youth, is a common trope in many films and literary works. This vision is, however, overlaid and underlaid with counter-traditions that decenter Oxford and instead insert Oxford upside down into other epistemologies, geographies, and networks. Some attempts at the transformation of elite institutions such as Oxford inadvertently serve to contin…
Academic Fakes
In this contribution to the special issue on Fakery in Africa, I catalogue some examples of academic fakes. I show that our fields are shot through with fakery, and ask what is at stake in holding these fakes up not only as real, but as what we value most highly. Fakes and fakery, I suggest, are not exceptional and deviant forms, but are in fact endemic to academia, and in particular to African Studies scholarship. Acknowledging that much around …
Thinking China from Africa: Encounter with the Other Other
Translated into Chinese from the original English by Ying Cheng, Peking UniversityThis roundtable on China-Africa “position and positionality”1 was produced during the first half of 2020, a time of
Repacking the crates: A response to Bhakti Shringarpure’s Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital
The term “assemblage” in the title of Bhakti Shringarpure’s book works powerfully throughout as a method for revealing the ways in which consensus has been manufactured in our disciplines. The book
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Tambudzai Trilogy and the Work of Mourning
I first read Nervous Conditions in 1988, when I was in my first job teaching African literature. My mother had given me a pair of Lady Di shoes, which were white with navy-coloured toes. They were
Reading in go-slow mode: Appreciating Lindsey Green-Simms'sPostcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South AfricaCarli Coetzee - author's response
The JALA book panels aim to bring together a range of readers, and often (as in this case) the published roundtables are a record of actual panels at the ALA conference. The location of the ALA con
Between the world and Wakanda
Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther follows the familiar plot of a society in transition as a result of a genealogical crisis. As is the case in many art works concerned with the theme of a dead father an
Ethical?! Collaboration?! Keywords for our contradictory times
The idea for this set of contributions initially came from a panel that was convened at the biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) held in September 2018 at the Un
The past and future of Journal of African Cultural Studies
This editorial announces a new phase in the life of the Journal of African Cultural Studies, and introduces the revised editorial and management structure as well as the journal’s new affiliation w
Carli Coetzee
Unsettling the air-conditioned room: Journal work as ethical labour
The scholarship that gets published in academic journals reflects and replicates particular conversations, and privileges authors schooled in certain methodologies. The friendships and collaborations between scholars of African literature based in different regions of the world are evident in the ongoing work and membership of the ALA, and make the organisation and its gatherings distinctive. Yet in order for publishing patterns to shift, we need…
Being invited into the teacher’s home”
Roundtable on Grace A. Musila’s A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
Home, family and intimacy in recent writings on and from South Africa
In recent works on intimacy and home in South Africa, scholars question the assumptions about where 'home' ends, and who counts as 'family'. In calls for curriculum change and the transformation of the university (discourses that were about access for both black studentsandblack faculty), these questions of affiliation and 'home' have played a prominent role. In the student protest movement of 2015 and 2016, for example, a recurring discourse was…
Academic Freedom in Contexts
The limits of academic freedom are disputed in South African contexts, as elsewhere. The recent Rhodes Must Fall movement has given voice to demands to reinterpret the very idea of the university, as well as to redefine what academic freedom entails. The arguments made in John Higgins’s book Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa, published before these recent events started unfolding, reveal the ruptures and continuities in the debates in…
Afro-superheroes: Prepossessing the Future
In ‘Popular Arts in Africa’, published in 1987, Karin Barber made passing reference to the syncretic use made of Marvel Comic superheroes alongside figures from Twi folktales, in comics produced in Accra and Kumasi in the 1970s (1987). In these comics, Marvel superheroes and folklore figures, she wrote, have in common their special powers, and a past that stretches beyond the lives of everyday Ghanaians. In the explosion of these figures into the…
Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation
Notes1 Ulrich, “Review of Imagining the Cape Colony,” 88
To Refuse Containment, To Resist Translation: Two South African Examples
This essay is concerned with translation in situations of linguistic or social inequality. Its focus is South African English and it relationship to the other South African languages. Its argument is that much of the translation work done in South Africa serves to extend and confirm monolingual privilege. Translation in official contexts in South Africa tends to happen into English, out of other South African languages, and the labour of translat…
The languages of the archive: Revisiting the debates around African languages in the arts and in the academy
South African discourses about the past have been dominated by skin and surface. In this paper, we investigate ways of accessing history beyond the body, and beyond the classification systems of apartheid. One such an avenue, we argue, is through language, and in particular, African languages considered as archives. The paper makes a contribution to emerging debates around the uses of African languages in the academy. It revisits the longstanding…
Sihle Khumalo, Cape to Cairo , and Questions of Intertextuality: How to Write About Africa, How to Read About Africa
Carli Coetzee, Sihle Khumalo, Cape to Cairo, and Questions of Intertextuality: How to Write About Africa, How to Read About Africa, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 44, No. 2, (In)Visibility in African Cultures / Zoe Norridge, Charlotte Baker, and Elleke Boehmer, Guest Editors (Summer 2013), pp. 62-75
Ethical?! Collaboration?! Keywords for our contradictory times
The idea for this set of contributions initially came from a panel that was convened at the biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) held in September 2018 at the Un
Unsettling the air-conditioned room: Journal work as ethical labour
The scholarship that gets published in academic journals reflects and replicates particular conversations, and privileges authors schooled in certain methodologies. The friendships and collaborations between scholars of African literature based in different regions of the world are evident in the ongoing work and membership of the ALA, and make the organisation and its gatherings distinctive. Yet in order for publishing patterns to shift, we need…
They Never Wept, the Men of my Race: Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull and the White South African Signature
Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull is a text that, in terms of the audience to whom it is addressed, heralds a new direction in writing by white South Africans. The addressee of this text is twofold: Krog directs her work at both her traditional Afrikaans-speaking audience, and at a new audience by whom she wishes to be accepted. In this article I discuss two trends in the text. On the one hand, Krog actively distances herself from her heritage an…
Afro-superheroes: Prepossessing the Future
In ‘Popular Arts in Africa’, published in 1987, Karin Barber made passing reference to the syncretic use made of Marvel Comic superheroes alongside figures from Twi folktales, in comics produced in Accra and Kumasi in the 1970s (1987). In these comics, Marvel superheroes and folklore figures, she wrote, have in common their special powers, and a past that stretches beyond the lives of everyday Ghanaians. In the explosion of these figures into the…
Nigerian Campus Forms
Thinking China from Africa: Encounter with the Other Other
Translated into Chinese from the original English by Ying Cheng, Peking UniversityThis roundtable on China-Africa “position and positionality”1 was produced during the first half of 2020, a time of
Between the world and Wakanda
Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther follows the familiar plot of a society in transition as a result of a genealogical crisis. As is the case in many art works concerned with the theme of a dead father an
The Myth of Oxford and Black Counter-Narratives
The myth of Oxford, which echoes and replicates the ideology of an unchanging world of privileged white youth, is a common trope in many films and literary works. This vision is, however, overlaid and underlaid with counter-traditions that decenter Oxford and instead insert Oxford upside down into other epistemologies, geographies, and networks. Some attempts at the transformation of elite institutions such as Oxford inadvertently serve to contin…
The past and future of Journal of African Cultural Studies
This editorial announces a new phase in the life of the Journal of African Cultural Studies, and introduces the revised editorial and management structure as well as the journal’s new affiliation w
The One That Got Away: Zoë Wicomb in the Archives
This article examines the role of reading and readers in the work of Zoë Wicomb. It discusses the uses made of printed material such as archives, newspapers and letters in the body of work, and argues that Wicomb uses these documents to interrogate notions of originality, origins and stability. In Wicomb's work, printed texts are often being cut, or lost, or changed. This lack of trust in the fixed, original version of a text is a recurring theme…
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Tambudzai Trilogy and the Work of Mourning
I first read Nervous Conditions in 1988, when I was in my first job teaching African literature. My mother had given me a pair of Lady Di shoes, which were white with navy-coloured toes. They were
Reading in go-slow mode: Appreciating Lindsey Green-Simms'sPostcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
Being invited into the teacher’s home”
Roundtable on Grace A. Musila’s A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
Academic Freedom in Contexts
The limits of academic freedom are disputed in South African contexts, as elsewhere. The recent Rhodes Must Fall movement has given voice to demands to reinterpret the very idea of the university, as well as to redefine what academic freedom entails. The arguments made in John Higgins’s book Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa, published before these recent events started unfolding, reveal the ruptures and continuities in the debates in…
Sihle Khumalo, Cape to Cairo , and Questions of Intertextuality: How to Write About Africa, How to Read About Africa
Carli Coetzee, Sihle Khumalo, Cape to Cairo, and Questions of Intertextuality: How to Write About Africa, How to Read About Africa, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 44, No. 2, (In)Visibility in African Cultures / Zoe Norridge, Charlotte Baker, and Elleke Boehmer, Guest Editors (Summer 2013), pp. 62-75
Visions of disorder and profit: The Khoikhoi and the first years of the Dutch east India company at the cape
(1994). Visions of disorder and profit: The Khoikhoi and the first years of the Dutch east India company at the cape. Social Dynamics: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 35-66
Astrology and Personality: Sun-Sign or Chart
Recent studies on astrology and personality have almost exclusively concentrated on the sun-sign. Astrologers, however, maintain that the complete astrological chart gives a more accurate indication of personality than the sun-sign alone. A study was conducted to test this hypothesis. Two astrologers independently rated 48 subjects on the 16PF factors by using the complete chart. Inter-astrologer correlations were computed and found to be low. Th…
Visions of disorder and profit: The Khoikhoi and the first years of the Dutch east India company at the cape
(1994). Visions of disorder and profit: The Khoikhoi and the first years of the Dutch east India company at the cape. Social Dynamics: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 35-66
Individual and Collective Notions of the ‘Promised Land’: The ‘Private’ Writings of the Boer Emigrants
Truth, Reconciliation, and Amnesty in South Africa
They Never Wept, the Men of my Race: Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull and the White South African Signature
Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull is a text that, in terms of the audience to whom it is addressed, heralds a new direction in writing by white South Africans. The addressee of this text is twofold: Krog directs her work at both her traditional Afrikaans-speaking audience, and at a new audience by whom she wishes to be accepted. In this article I discuss two trends in the text. On the one hand, Krog actively distances herself from her heritage an…
The One That Got Away: Zoë Wicomb in the Archives
This article examines the role of reading and readers in the work of Zoë Wicomb. It discusses the uses made of printed material such as archives, newspapers and letters in the body of work, and argues that Wicomb uses these documents to interrogate notions of originality, origins and stability. In Wicomb's work, printed texts are often being cut, or lost, or changed. This lack of trust in the fixed, original version of a text is a recurring theme…
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…
To Refuse Containment, To Resist Translation: Two South African Examples
This essay is concerned with translation in situations of linguistic or social inequality. Its focus is South African English and it relationship to the other South African languages. Its argument is that much of the translation work done in South Africa serves to extend and confirm monolingual privilege. Translation in official contexts in South Africa tends to happen into English, out of other South African languages, and the labour of translat…
The languages of the archive: Revisiting the debates around African languages in the arts and in the academy
South African discourses about the past have been dominated by skin and surface. In this paper, we investigate ways of accessing history beyond the body, and beyond the classification systems of apartheid. One such an avenue, we argue, is through language, and in particular, African languages considered as archives. The paper makes a contribution to emerging debates around the uses of African languages in the academy. It revisits the longstanding…
Sihle Khumalo, Cape to Cairo , and Questions of Intertextuality: How to Write About Africa, How to Read About Africa
Carli Coetzee, Sihle Khumalo, Cape to Cairo, and Questions of Intertextuality: How to Write About Africa, How to Read About Africa, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 44, No. 2, (In)Visibility in African Cultures / Zoe Norridge, Charlotte Baker, and Elleke Boehmer, Guest Editors (Summer 2013), pp. 62-75
All Tickets Please, or How Cinema Histories of South Africa Can Stop Re-Enacting the Racialised Past
Imagining the Cape Colony: History, Literature and the South African Nation
Notes1 Ulrich, “Review of Imagining the Cape Colony,” 88
Academic Freedom in Contexts
The limits of academic freedom are disputed in South African contexts, as elsewhere. The recent Rhodes Must Fall movement has given voice to demands to reinterpret the very idea of the university, as well as to redefine what academic freedom entails. The arguments made in John Higgins’s book Academic Freedom in a Democratic South Africa, published before these recent events started unfolding, reveal the ruptures and continuities in the debates in…
Afro-superheroes: Prepossessing the Future
In ‘Popular Arts in Africa’, published in 1987, Karin Barber made passing reference to the syncretic use made of Marvel Comic superheroes alongside figures from Twi folktales, in comics produced in Accra and Kumasi in the 1970s (1987). In these comics, Marvel superheroes and folklore figures, she wrote, have in common their special powers, and a past that stretches beyond the lives of everyday Ghanaians. In the explosion of these figures into the…
Being invited into the teacher’s home”
Roundtable on Grace A. Musila’s A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder
Home, family and intimacy in recent writings on and from South Africa
In recent works on intimacy and home in South Africa, scholars question the assumptions about where 'home' ends, and who counts as 'family'. In calls for curriculum change and the transformation of the university (discourses that were about access for both black studentsandblack faculty), these questions of affiliation and 'home' have played a prominent role. In the student protest movement of 2015 and 2016, for example, a recurring discourse was…
Carli Coetzee
Unsettling the air-conditioned room: Journal work as ethical labour
The scholarship that gets published in academic journals reflects and replicates particular conversations, and privileges authors schooled in certain methodologies. The friendships and collaborations between scholars of African literature based in different regions of the world are evident in the ongoing work and membership of the ALA, and make the organisation and its gatherings distinctive. Yet in order for publishing patterns to shift, we need…
Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South AfricaCarli Coetzee - author's response
The JALA book panels aim to bring together a range of readers, and often (as in this case) the published roundtables are a record of actual panels at the ALA conference. The location of the ALA con
Between the world and Wakanda
Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther follows the familiar plot of a society in transition as a result of a genealogical crisis. As is the case in many art works concerned with the theme of a dead father an
Ethical?! Collaboration?! Keywords for our contradictory times
The idea for this set of contributions initially came from a panel that was convened at the biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) held in September 2018 at the Un
The past and future of Journal of African Cultural Studies
This editorial announces a new phase in the life of the Journal of African Cultural Studies, and introduces the revised editorial and management structure as well as the journal’s new affiliation w
Repacking the crates: A response to Bhakti Shringarpure’s Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital
The term “assemblage” in the title of Bhakti Shringarpure’s book works powerfully throughout as a method for revealing the ways in which consensus has been manufactured in our disciplines. The book
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Tambudzai Trilogy and the Work of Mourning
I first read Nervous Conditions in 1988, when I was in my first job teaching African literature. My mother had given me a pair of Lady Di shoes, which were white with navy-coloured toes. They were
Sociology (23 works) · History (22 works) · History (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · South African History and Culture (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (7 works)