Karl Van Wyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Van Wyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Wyk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN WYK K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4779-4253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Women and Place in Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boy (1946)
The seeing eye, the narrating I
Eben Venter’s 2023 novel, Decima, centres on the titular rhinoceros living in the Great Fish River Reserve, South Africa, under constant threat of poachers after her horn. Decima shares the narrative with human characters, some out to harm her (poachers, the rhinoceros-horn kingpin, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine—TCM) and those willing to protect her (scientists intent on debunking the efficacy of TCM, conservationists working at t…
Experiments with Truth
Truth finds itself under threat. That it is under threat at all is not new. Yet with the advent of new technologies, particularly those that allow for varying modes of being and expression, informa
(Pre)apartheid time
South African academic and historian Arthur Keppel-Jones wrote When Smuts Goes as an imagined history of a time (1952 to 2010) when fascist Afrikaner nationalism consumed the country. Keppel-Jones’ book was published in 1947; apartheid began in 1948. This article considers previous scholarship on Keppel-Jones’ work (such as its depictions of race), before beginning an analysis on the text’s temporal forms. The work has also been discussed as a dy…
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Experiments with Truth
Truth finds itself under threat. That it is under threat at all is not new. Yet with the advent of new technologies, particularly those that allow for varying modes of being and expression, informa
(Pre)apartheid time
South African academic and historian Arthur Keppel-Jones wrote When Smuts Goes as an imagined history of a time (1952 to 2010) when fascist Afrikaner nationalism consumed the country. Keppel-Jones’ book was published in 1947; apartheid began in 1948. This article considers previous scholarship on Keppel-Jones’ work (such as its depictions of race), before beginning an analysis on the text’s temporal forms. The work has also been discussed as a dy…
Women and Place in Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boy (1946)
The seeing eye, the narrating I
Eben Venter’s 2023 novel, Decima, centres on the titular rhinoceros living in the Great Fish River Reserve, South Africa, under constant threat of poachers after her horn. Decima shares the narrative with human characters, some out to harm her (poachers, the rhinoceros-horn kingpin, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine—TCM) and those willing to protect her (scientists intent on debunking the efficacy of TCM, conservationists working at t…
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