Natasha Distiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 204173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasha Distiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Distiller |
| SIGNATURE | DISTILLER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory
Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools
Love and Politics
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Vir iemand wat altyd die gewig van 'n boek takseer terwyl jy begin blaai en nie die verleiding kan weerstaan om aan die binnekant te ruik nie, is Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa 'n heerlike boek. Nie dat dit spesifiek lekkerder as ander moderne boeke ruik nie - wel kraakhelder en fris - maar omdat die materialiteit, die boek as ding, so sterk op die voorgrond staan in die 21 artikels waaruit dit bestaan. Die plesier begin al danksy …
Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On post-apartheid South African culture
Begging the questions: Producing Shakespeare for post-apartheid South African schools
This paper examines some of the ways 'Shakespeare' is functioning in the post‐apartheid education system. It is not based on education or textbook theory. Rather, it seeks to test some of the assertions of new historicist and cultural materialist theories by analysing the ideological work performed by editions of Macbeth produced for post‐apartheid schools. It asks questions about Shakespeare in the South African school classroom, and about the r…
My People all over the World”: Hip Hop, Gender, and Black Nationalism
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women (2007) and Charise L. Cheney’s Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (2005) both offer committed and informed analyses of the gender politics of a cultural movement with which their authors identify. Sharpley-Whiting’s personal story prefaces her investigation into how, why, and at what cost hip hop’s representations of…
Surviving the Future: Towards a South African Cultural Studies1
Since liberation in 1994, the meaning of ‘South African’ has undergone change. Theoretical terms need to be developed in order to talk about culture and identity in the ‘new’ South Africa. There are rich traditions on which a South African cultural studies could draw, in the context of the Anglo-American domination of the field of cultural studies. However, the complexities of undertaking any kind of cultural studies in the context of the country…
Petrarch's long-deceased woes’: Petrarchism and Hip-Hop
This article points to similarities between Petrarchism, an early modern discourse of unrequited love as it appears in sixteenth and early seventeenth century English love poetry, and gangsta rap. The article argues that the connections between the two genres suggest ways in which gender, desire, and the economics of display play themselves out in a profitable performance of self. Drawing on thematic and stylistic similarities between the two gen…
"Denying the Coloured Mother": Gender and Race in South Africa
A Sign that History is Happening: Shakespeare in 20th‐Century South African literature
This article makes use of the notion of cultural hybridity as developed by Homi Bhabha in order to come to terms with the ways in which specific writers in 20th‐century South Africa incorporated Shakespeare as an icon and as a collection of texts into their work. I explore how the parameters of, particularly, gender and class impact on the identity positions that are both enabled by and developed in defiance of colonial and apartheid knowledge sy…
Colonial Shakespeare”: Report on the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa's Tri-annual Shakespeare Congress
(2003). “Colonial Shakespeare”: Report on the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa's Tri-annual Shakespeare Congress. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 253-257
Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory
Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On post-apartheid South African culture
Surviving the Future: Towards a South African Cultural Studies1
Since liberation in 1994, the meaning of ‘South African’ has undergone change. Theoretical terms need to be developed in order to talk about culture and identity in the ‘new’ South Africa. There are rich traditions on which a South African cultural studies could draw, in the context of the Anglo-American domination of the field of cultural studies. However, the complexities of undertaking any kind of cultural studies in the context of the country…
Begging the questions: Producing Shakespeare for post-apartheid South African schools
This paper examines some of the ways 'Shakespeare' is functioning in the post‐apartheid education system. It is not based on education or textbook theory. Rather, it seeks to test some of the assertions of new historicist and cultural materialist theories by analysing the ideological work performed by editions of Macbeth produced for post‐apartheid schools. It asks questions about Shakespeare in the South African school classroom, and about the r…
Colonial Shakespeare”: Report on the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa's Tri-annual Shakespeare Congress
(2003). “Colonial Shakespeare”: Report on the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa's Tri-annual Shakespeare Congress. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 253-257
"Denying the Coloured Mother": Gender and Race in South Africa
A Sign that History is Happening: Shakespeare in 20th‐Century South African literature
This article makes use of the notion of cultural hybridity as developed by Homi Bhabha in order to come to terms with the ways in which specific writers in 20th‐century South Africa incorporated Shakespeare as an icon and as a collection of texts into their work. I explore how the parameters of, particularly, gender and class impact on the identity positions that are both enabled by and developed in defiance of colonial and apartheid knowledge sy…
Petrarch's long-deceased woes’: Petrarchism and Hip-Hop
This article points to similarities between Petrarchism, an early modern discourse of unrequited love as it appears in sixteenth and early seventeenth century English love poetry, and gangsta rap. The article argues that the connections between the two genres suggest ways in which gender, desire, and the economics of display play themselves out in a profitable performance of self. Drawing on thematic and stylistic similarities between the two gen…
My People all over the World”: Hip Hop, Gender, and Black Nationalism
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting’s Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women (2007) and Charise L. Cheney’s Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (2005) both offer committed and informed analyses of the gender politics of a cultural movement with which their authors identify. Sharpley-Whiting’s personal story prefaces her investigation into how, why, and at what cost hip hop’s representations of…
Surviving the Future: Towards a South African Cultural Studies1
Since liberation in 1994, the meaning of ‘South African’ has undergone change. Theoretical terms need to be developed in order to talk about culture and identity in the ‘new’ South Africa. There are rich traditions on which a South African cultural studies could draw, in the context of the Anglo-American domination of the field of cultural studies. However, the complexities of undertaking any kind of cultural studies in the context of the country…
Begging the questions: Producing Shakespeare for post-apartheid South African schools
This paper examines some of the ways 'Shakespeare' is functioning in the post‐apartheid education system. It is not based on education or textbook theory. Rather, it seeks to test some of the assertions of new historicist and cultural materialist theories by analysing the ideological work performed by editions of Macbeth produced for post‐apartheid schools. It asks questions about Shakespeare in the South African school classroom, and about the r…
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Vir iemand wat altyd die gewig van 'n boek takseer terwyl jy begin blaai en nie die verleiding kan weerstaan om aan die binnekant te ruik nie, is Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa 'n heerlike boek. Nie dat dit spesifiek lekkerder as ander moderne boeke ruik nie - wel kraakhelder en fris - maar omdat die materialiteit, die boek as ding, so sterk op die voorgrond staan in die 21 artikels waaruit dit bestaan. Die plesier begin al danksy …
Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On post-apartheid South African culture
Love and Politics
Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools
Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)