Gitte Postel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gitte Postel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Postel |
| SIGNATURE | POSTEL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tiscali (Italy) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Media, mediums and metaphors
During the past fifteen years, sangomas have become a distinctive presence in South African literature. Furthermore, an international focus on indigenous knowledge and a national emphasis on cultural regeneration have made room for sangomas in several public South African spheres. In this paper, the way in which Nicholas Gcaleka, the sangoma who went to find Hintsa's skull, became both narrator of and character in different narratives within lite…
The Unsettling Side of Death
Few things in life will be as contradictory as death. Death is always there, even though it is never more than an absence; it is the one sure thing in a human's life, but at the same time it is nev
The Diviner's Task
When read in what were perhaps South Africa's darkest decades, the 1970s and 1980s, Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist seemed to be a rather apocalyptic novel. But the fear-stricken, history-bound protagonist who walks right into his own trap shows only one side of reality. The other side is referred to by his two antagonists who are—as a dead man who has yet to be buried and a woman becoming a diviner—both in the middle of an existential tran…
Unheimlich moederland
Prior to the abolishing of Apartheid rule in 1994 several major South African white writers wrote a novel set on a South African farm. Likewise, in the decades that preceded the institutionalising of Apartheid, several farm novels were published, but with an entirely different message. In Unheimlich moederland insights from several disciplines are used to show how major changes in social-economic relations, land rights and the construction of cul…
The Unsettling Side of Death
Few things in life will be as contradictory as death. Death is always there, even though it is never more than an absence; it is the one sure thing in a human's life, but at the same time it is nev
The Diviner's Task
When read in what were perhaps South Africa's darkest decades, the 1970s and 1980s, Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist seemed to be a rather apocalyptic novel. But the fear-stricken, history-bound protagonist who walks right into his own trap shows only one side of reality. The other side is referred to by his two antagonists who are—as a dead man who has yet to be buried and a woman becoming a diviner—both in the middle of an existential tran…
Unheimlich moederland
Prior to the abolishing of Apartheid rule in 1994 several major South African white writers wrote a novel set on a South African farm. Likewise, in the decades that preceded the institutionalising of Apartheid, several farm novels were published, but with an entirely different message. In Unheimlich moederland insights from several disciplines are used to show how major changes in social-economic relations, land rights and the construction of cul…
The Diviner's Task
When read in what were perhaps South Africa's darkest decades, the 1970s and 1980s, Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist seemed to be a rather apocalyptic novel. But the fear-stricken, history-bound protagonist who walks right into his own trap shows only one side of reality. The other side is referred to by his two antagonists who are—as a dead man who has yet to be buried and a woman becoming a diviner—both in the middle of an existential tran…
The Unsettling Side of Death
Few things in life will be as contradictory as death. Death is always there, even though it is never more than an absence; it is the one sure thing in a human's life, but at the same time it is nev
Media, mediums and metaphors
During the past fifteen years, sangomas have become a distinctive presence in South African literature. Furthermore, an international focus on indigenous knowledge and a national emphasis on cultural regeneration have made room for sangomas in several public South African spheres. In this paper, the way in which Nicholas Gcaleka, the sangoma who went to find Hintsa's skull, became both narrator of and character in different narratives within lite…
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Afrikaans literature (1 works)