Leana van der Merwe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5227024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leana van der Merwe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leana |
| FAMILY NAME | van der Merwe |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER MERWE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0003-9936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading the “Present Time” as Queer Feminist Refuge in Lien Botha’s Eco-Apocalypse
Lien Botha’s Wonderboom (2015) explores forgetting as a strategy for undermining linear historiography, and feminine unravelling as a revolt against violent masculinity, colonialism, and environmental decline. This article presents a reading of Botha’s debut novel, accompanying visuals, and a selection of photographs from her oeuvre spanning at least 20 years—in counterpoint—to demonstrate how Botha fashions the present as queer feminist refuge i…
Performativity and the gendered city: Johannesburg as modern African metropolis
This paper examines Johannesburg as a gendered space by looking at texts by Ivan Vladislavic, and performance artworks by Anthea Moys and Donna Kukama in counterpoint. If Johannesburg is positioned by several authors as a quintessentially African metropolis that is being refashioned in postapartheid in creative and emergent ways, what implications does this have for women’s inclusion in the modernist project of ‘the nation’? The construction of l…
“Some White Women (Are Not Like That)”. Affective Gestures in Post-Apartheid Visual Art from South Africa
The Horizontal Sublime in Post-apartheid Gothic Landscape
This article examines how the sublime, as a form, operates in landscape from the post-apartheid period. Starting from the traditional view of landscape as genre at the turn of the twentieth century, and moving through W. J. T. Mitchell's assertion of landscape as medium in the transitional phase, I move to demonstrate how landscape operates as verb in post-apartheid visual art, following Jill Casid's notion of performative space. Casid's "landsca…
Writing Desire and History: Collecting as Postcolonial Feminist Methodology in South African Art
This article explores the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Stephané E. Conradie through a postcolonial feminist lens by reading it in counterpoint to the literary fiction of Bessie Head. The visual and literary texts are examined through a “surface reading” of the figurations contained therein, whilst attention is paid specifically to the methodology of collecting as a decolonial and feminist strategy which seeks to re-imagine history and memory. …
Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
(2020). Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa. de arte: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 104-108
Die mens en werk: N Sosiologiese beskouing / Man and work: A sociological perspective
Man's involvement in work has changed over the ages. Work was originally viewed as punishment. The Protestant work ethic and, to a lesser extent, rapid technological growth and industrialization have lead however, in the course of time, to a new meaning being attached to work. A situation has developed where workers attach an intrinsic value to work as opposed to a mainly extrinsic value previously attached thereto. The fast-growing technology an…
Die mens en werk: ’N Sosiologiese beskouing
Man and work: A sociological perspective. Man’s involvement in work has changed over the ages. Work was originally viewed as punishment. The Protestant work ethic and, to a lesser extent, rapid technological growth and industrialization have lead however, in the course of time, to a new meaning being attached to work. A situation has developed where workers attach an intrinsic value to work as opposed to a mainly extrinsic value previously attach…
Televisie as sosialiseringsagent by die Afrikaanssprekende laerskoolkind
Television as an agent of socialization for the Afrikaans-speaking child at primary school. A remarkable change occurred in the individual's world of recreation and relaxation with the arrival of television in the fifties. Researchers claim that the average person spends more time watching television than he or she does sleeping. Much has been said (contemplated) with regard to the effect that television might have on the child, be it negative or…
Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
(2020). Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa. de arte: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 104-108
Televisie as sosialiseringsagent by die Afrikaanssprekende laerskoolkind
Television as an agent of socialization for the Afrikaans-speaking child at primary school. A remarkable change occurred in the individual's world of recreation and relaxation with the arrival of television in the fifties. Researchers claim that the average person spends more time watching television than he or she does sleeping. Much has been said (contemplated) with regard to the effect that television might have on the child, be it negative or…
Die mens en werk: N Sosiologiese beskouing / Man and work: A sociological perspective
Man's involvement in work has changed over the ages. Work was originally viewed as punishment. The Protestant work ethic and, to a lesser extent, rapid technological growth and industrialization have lead however, in the course of time, to a new meaning being attached to work. A situation has developed where workers attach an intrinsic value to work as opposed to a mainly extrinsic value previously attached thereto. The fast-growing technology an…
Die mens en werk: ’N Sosiologiese beskouing
Man and work: A sociological perspective. Man’s involvement in work has changed over the ages. Work was originally viewed as punishment. The Protestant work ethic and, to a lesser extent, rapid technological growth and industrialization have lead however, in the course of time, to a new meaning being attached to work. A situation has developed where workers attach an intrinsic value to work as opposed to a mainly extrinsic value previously attach…
Writing Desire and History: Collecting as Postcolonial Feminist Methodology in South African Art
This article explores the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape and Stephané E. Conradie through a postcolonial feminist lens by reading it in counterpoint to the literary fiction of Bessie Head. The visual and literary texts are examined through a “surface reading” of the figurations contained therein, whilst attention is paid specifically to the methodology of collecting as a decolonial and feminist strategy which seeks to re-imagine history and memory. …
Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa
(2020). Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa. de arte: Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 104-108
The Horizontal Sublime in Post-apartheid Gothic Landscape
This article examines how the sublime, as a form, operates in landscape from the post-apartheid period. Starting from the traditional view of landscape as genre at the turn of the twentieth century, and moving through W. J. T. Mitchell's assertion of landscape as medium in the transitional phase, I move to demonstrate how landscape operates as verb in post-apartheid visual art, following Jill Casid's notion of performative space. Casid's "landsca…
“Some White Women (Are Not Like That)”. Affective Gestures in Post-Apartheid Visual Art from South Africa
Reading the “Present Time” as Queer Feminist Refuge in Lien Botha’s Eco-Apocalypse
Lien Botha’s Wonderboom (2015) explores forgetting as a strategy for undermining linear historiography, and feminine unravelling as a revolt against violent masculinity, colonialism, and environmental decline. This article presents a reading of Botha’s debut novel, accompanying visuals, and a selection of photographs from her oeuvre spanning at least 20 years—in counterpoint—to demonstrate how Botha fashions the present as queer feminist refuge i…
Performativity and the gendered city: Johannesburg as modern African metropolis
This paper examines Johannesburg as a gendered space by looking at texts by Ivan Vladislavic, and performance artworks by Anthea Moys and Donna Kukama in counterpoint. If Johannesburg is positioned by several authors as a quintessentially African metropolis that is being refashioned in postapartheid in creative and emergent ways, what implications does this have for women’s inclusion in the modernist project of ‘the nation’? The construction of l…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · South African History and Culture (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works)