Jean Rossmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4237492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Rossmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossmann |
| SIGNATURE | ROßMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0290-8296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rekindling Eco-Ubuntu in Sicelo Mbatha’s Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness
Sicelo Mbatha's memoir, Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness (2021), is in keeping with the recent ecological turn in South African literature that offers a postcolonial ecocritical explanation for current environmental and socioeconomic crises.It advocates for spiritual awareness and a connection to nature to foster environmental justice through multispecies entanglements.For Mbatha, a relationship to land based solely on economic returns leads t…
Finding the 'way back: Displacement and the imaginings of home in Niq Mhlongo's Way Back Home
Charaxes and Collaborative Becoming in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat
This article focusses on Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat (2006 [2004] trans. Michiel Heyns) and its fabulation of the magical Overberg of the south-western Cape. While the mother–child bond has received much scholarly attention, what deserves closer examination is the tentacular imbrication of the creaturely world into this dynamic. Adopting a posthuman, ecocritical lens, this article highlights the intermediary role played by creatures in these comp…
“ Chew Me Until I Bind ”: Sacrifice and Cultural Renewal in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat
In Agaat (2006), Marlene van Niekerk presents the future of Afrikaner culture in a new matrilineal and racially hybrid genealogy. This matrilineal genealogy occurs through the self-sacrifice of the white matriarch, Milla de Wet. Van Niekerk disrupts and subverts dominant patriarchal, patrilineal and racial epistemes upon which the plaasroman is based by leaving the farm, not to Milla's son and putative male heir, but to the coloured housekeeper, …
Martha(martyr)dom: Compassion, Sacrifice and the Abject Mother in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf
Marlene van Niekerk's first novel, Triomf (1994; English translation by Leon de Kock, 1999), satirises Afrikaner nationalism's desire for racial purity by exposing its abject core, the poor white Afrikaner family, exemplified by the Benades. Much of the pleasure of the text comes from Treppie's irony and cynicism. He is the primary voice of satire and the dominant perspective in critical reception of the novel. However, the Benades do not only ev…
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“ Chew Me Until I Bind ”: Sacrifice and Cultural Renewal in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat
In Agaat (2006), Marlene van Niekerk presents the future of Afrikaner culture in a new matrilineal and racially hybrid genealogy. This matrilineal genealogy occurs through the self-sacrifice of the white matriarch, Milla de Wet. Van Niekerk disrupts and subverts dominant patriarchal, patrilineal and racial epistemes upon which the plaasroman is based by leaving the farm, not to Milla's son and putative male heir, but to the coloured housekeeper, …
Martha(martyr)dom: Compassion, Sacrifice and the Abject Mother in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf
Marlene van Niekerk's first novel, Triomf (1994; English translation by Leon de Kock, 1999), satirises Afrikaner nationalism's desire for racial purity by exposing its abject core, the poor white Afrikaner family, exemplified by the Benades. Much of the pleasure of the text comes from Treppie's irony and cynicism. He is the primary voice of satire and the dominant perspective in critical reception of the novel. However, the Benades do not only ev…
Charaxes and Collaborative Becoming in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat
This article focusses on Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat (2006 [2004] trans. Michiel Heyns) and its fabulation of the magical Overberg of the south-western Cape. While the mother–child bond has received much scholarly attention, what deserves closer examination is the tentacular imbrication of the creaturely world into this dynamic. Adopting a posthuman, ecocritical lens, this article highlights the intermediary role played by creatures in these comp…
Rekindling Eco-Ubuntu in Sicelo Mbatha’s Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness
Sicelo Mbatha's memoir, Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness (2021), is in keeping with the recent ecological turn in South African literature that offers a postcolonial ecocritical explanation for current environmental and socioeconomic crises.It advocates for spiritual awareness and a connection to nature to foster environmental justice through multispecies entanglements.For Mbatha, a relationship to land based solely on economic returns leads t…
Finding the 'way back: Displacement and the imaginings of home in Niq Mhlongo's Way Back Home
Art (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)