Rosemary Jane Jolly
Biographic Data
| ID | 208907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Jane Jolly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Jolly |
| SIGNATURE | JOLLY R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0562-1127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction: Reading African Forms Simultaneously
This introduction to the special issue “African Literatures and the Question of Form” draws on Achille Mbembe’s work, arguing that form should be understood as a process. This, the authors argue, forms the basis of a comparative approach to African cultural and literary forms, centering the process of forming. Avoiding imposing preconceived definitions of form on a particular work, this is a “simultaneous” approach to form, in so far as it eschew…
Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: An intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism
This paper brings together fifth-wave public health theory and a decolonised approach to the human informed by the Caribbean thinker, Sylvia Wynter, and the primary exponent of African Humanism, Es'kia Mpahlele. Sub-Saharan indigenous ways of thinking the human as co-constitutive in a subject we might call human-animal-'environment', in conjunction with the subcontinent's experiences of colonial damage in disease 'prevention' and 'treatment', dem…
Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing Against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine
The last decade has witnessed far greater attention to the social determinants of health in health research, but literary studies have yet to address, in a sustained way, how narratives addressing issues of health across postcolonial cultural divides depict the meeting – or non-meeting – of radically differing conceptualisations of wellness and disease. This chapter explores representations of illness in which Western narrators and notions of the…
Introduction: Reflections on Postcolonial Animations of the Material
In this introduction to the special issue, “Animating Theories of the Material: Approaching Animist Being in Postcolonial Literatures,” Rosemary Jolly and Alexander Fyfe consider the recent surge of interest in animisms within postcolonial studies alongside the roughly coeval turn to questions of materiality within the humanities. Introducing the five essays in the issue, they raise questions around the potential limitations of various forms of m…
Effluence, "waste" and African Humanism: Extra-Anthropocentric Being and Human Rightness
I propose a extra-anthropocentric contextualisation of normative human rights as human rightness. To undo the normative construction of the human, I turn to a theory of the effluent. I argue effluent communities, defined as communities who have never depended on the state, re-envision normative human rights. Effluent communities suggest the necessity for a rethinking of the centrality of the state in Butlerian conceptions of precarity and grievab…
Witnessing Embodiment: Trauma, Narrative and Theory at the Limit in Field Research and in the Classroom
As theories of trauma and narrative appeal to notions of healing, they tend to imply a) that narrative itself can bear adequate witness to the body and b) that in so doing, narrative can, autonomously, enable healing. Giving examples from my experience, I argue that these assumptions encourage us to overlook embodied experiences of violence both in research and the classroom. I conclude by proposing a pedagogy that avoids stigmatizing subjects by…
Yes, There are Rights but Sometimes They Don't Work: Gender Equity, HIV/Aids, and Democracy in Rural South Africa since 1994
This article draws on research conducted during 2005-07 for a project examining the connections between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV/AIDS in one rural municipality in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. The responses of communities to both epidemics have been greatly affected by the post-apartheid political order and the provisions of the Bill of Rights, Chapter 2 of the Constitution of 1996. These arrangements transform the legal status of…
Sexually transmitted infection and public health in South Africa: Educational campaigns for prevention, 1935–1948 and 1999–2008
For Northern Displacements: Understanding the Meaning of Madness in Global Constructions of HIV/Aids
This essay argues for the value of 'ex-centric' comparisons within global intellectual exchange. To privilege East-West in Northern academies to the exclusion of less apparently immediate concerns, the essay suggests, is to hinder the production of adequate historical and comparative contexts whose global scope enables proper comprehension of problems close to hand. This results in a kind of exaggerated global imaginary map, in that its ability t…
Spectral Presences: Narrating Women in the Context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(2004). Spectral Presences: Narrating Women in the Context of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 622-637
Desiring Good(s) in the Face of Marginalized Subjects: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a Global Context
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
White Men's (And Women's) Burden: Literature after Apartheid
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995
Voyages in J.M. Coetzee’s Novels: Narrative Conquests in Foe, Narrative Exploration in Age Of Iron
Spectral Presences: Narrating Women in the Context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(2004). Spectral Presences: Narrating Women in the Context of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 622-637
Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: An intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism
This paper brings together fifth-wave public health theory and a decolonised approach to the human informed by the Caribbean thinker, Sylvia Wynter, and the primary exponent of African Humanism, Es'kia Mpahlele. Sub-Saharan indigenous ways of thinking the human as co-constitutive in a subject we might call human-animal-'environment', in conjunction with the subcontinent's experiences of colonial damage in disease 'prevention' and 'treatment', dem…
Introduction: Reflections on Postcolonial Animations of the Material
In this introduction to the special issue, “Animating Theories of the Material: Approaching Animist Being in Postcolonial Literatures,” Rosemary Jolly and Alexander Fyfe consider the recent surge of interest in animisms within postcolonial studies alongside the roughly coeval turn to questions of materiality within the humanities. Introducing the five essays in the issue, they raise questions around the potential limitations of various forms of m…
Witnessing Embodiment: Trauma, Narrative and Theory at the Limit in Field Research and in the Classroom
As theories of trauma and narrative appeal to notions of healing, they tend to imply a) that narrative itself can bear adequate witness to the body and b) that in so doing, narrative can, autonomously, enable healing. Giving examples from my experience, I argue that these assumptions encourage us to overlook embodied experiences of violence both in research and the classroom. I conclude by proposing a pedagogy that avoids stigmatizing subjects by…
Sexually transmitted infection and public health in South Africa: Educational campaigns for prevention, 1935–1948 and 1999–2008
Desiring Good(s) in the Face of Marginalized Subjects: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a Global Context
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
White Men's (And Women's) Burden: Literature after Apartheid
Voyages in J.M. Coetzee’s Novels: Narrative Conquests in Foe, Narrative Exploration in Age Of Iron
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995
White Men's (And Women's) Burden: Literature after Apartheid
Desiring Good(s) in the Face of Marginalized Subjects: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a Global Context
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
Spectral Presences: Narrating Women in the Context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(2004). Spectral Presences: Narrating Women in the Context of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 622-637
For Northern Displacements: Understanding the Meaning of Madness in Global Constructions of HIV/Aids
This essay argues for the value of 'ex-centric' comparisons within global intellectual exchange. To privilege East-West in Northern academies to the exclusion of less apparently immediate concerns, the essay suggests, is to hinder the production of adequate historical and comparative contexts whose global scope enables proper comprehension of problems close to hand. This results in a kind of exaggerated global imaginary map, in that its ability t…
Sexually transmitted infection and public health in South Africa: Educational campaigns for prevention, 1935–1948 and 1999–2008
Yes, There are Rights but Sometimes They Don't Work: Gender Equity, HIV/Aids, and Democracy in Rural South Africa since 1994
This article draws on research conducted during 2005-07 for a project examining the connections between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV/AIDS in one rural municipality in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. The responses of communities to both epidemics have been greatly affected by the post-apartheid political order and the provisions of the Bill of Rights, Chapter 2 of the Constitution of 1996. These arrangements transform the legal status of…
Witnessing Embodiment: Trauma, Narrative and Theory at the Limit in Field Research and in the Classroom
As theories of trauma and narrative appeal to notions of healing, they tend to imply a) that narrative itself can bear adequate witness to the body and b) that in so doing, narrative can, autonomously, enable healing. Giving examples from my experience, I argue that these assumptions encourage us to overlook embodied experiences of violence both in research and the classroom. I conclude by proposing a pedagogy that avoids stigmatizing subjects by…
Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing Against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine
The last decade has witnessed far greater attention to the social determinants of health in health research, but literary studies have yet to address, in a sustained way, how narratives addressing issues of health across postcolonial cultural divides depict the meeting – or non-meeting – of radically differing conceptualisations of wellness and disease. This chapter explores representations of illness in which Western narrators and notions of the…
Introduction: Reflections on Postcolonial Animations of the Material
In this introduction to the special issue, “Animating Theories of the Material: Approaching Animist Being in Postcolonial Literatures,” Rosemary Jolly and Alexander Fyfe consider the recent surge of interest in animisms within postcolonial studies alongside the roughly coeval turn to questions of materiality within the humanities. Introducing the five essays in the issue, they raise questions around the potential limitations of various forms of m…
Effluence, "waste" and African Humanism: Extra-Anthropocentric Being and Human Rightness
I propose a extra-anthropocentric contextualisation of normative human rights as human rightness. To undo the normative construction of the human, I turn to a theory of the effluent. I argue effluent communities, defined as communities who have never depended on the state, re-envision normative human rights. Effluent communities suggest the necessity for a rethinking of the centrality of the state in Butlerian conceptions of precarity and grievab…
Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: An intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism
This paper brings together fifth-wave public health theory and a decolonised approach to the human informed by the Caribbean thinker, Sylvia Wynter, and the primary exponent of African Humanism, Es'kia Mpahlele. Sub-Saharan indigenous ways of thinking the human as co-constitutive in a subject we might call human-animal-'environment', in conjunction with the subcontinent's experiences of colonial damage in disease 'prevention' and 'treatment', dem…
Introduction: Reading African Forms Simultaneously
This introduction to the special issue “African Literatures and the Question of Form” draws on Achille Mbembe’s work, arguing that form should be understood as a process. This, the authors argue, forms the basis of a comparative approach to African cultural and literary forms, centering the process of forming. Avoiding imposing preconceived definitions of form on a particular work, this is a “simultaneous” approach to form, in so far as it eschew…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · South African History and Culture (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)