A Yolisa Kenqu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5679771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Yolisa Kenqu |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Yolisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenqu |
| SIGNATURE | KENQU A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3039-9628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jerome Pikwane, dir. The Tokoloshe. 2018. 92 minutes. English and isiZulu, with English subtitles. South Africa. Indigenous Film Distribution. No price reported
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Plunging into the Mire of Corruption and Pleasure”: Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home
This article presents a close reading of Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home, particularly its representation of the post-apartheid nation-state as a place of excess or, indeed, what James Ogude might call a “a site of eating”. To begin, I locate Mhlongo’s oeuvre within the long and rich tradition of black-centred artistic expression that is preoccupied with black masculinities and the politics/performance of ‘hustling’. Turning to Way Back Home specific…
Splitting and becoming double in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
This article explores Zakes Mda’s fascination with and deployment of the (leit)motif of twins, doubles/doppelgängers, and the notion of duality in his novels. In a close reading of The Heart of Redness, I explore how Mda dramatizes the breakdown of Xhosa society during the colonial encounters with the British and their continued impact on the present. I am also interested in the ways in which this novel animates the tensions between colonial mode…
Fraught Starts, Fragmented Twists, and Forged Endings: (Re)Imagining and (Re)Imaging Black Womanhood in Zulu Love Letter and Yesterday
This article explores the representations of black womanhood in the postapartheid films Zulu Love Letter (dir. Ramdan Suleman, 2004) and Yesterday (dir. Darrell Roodt, 2004). Drawing on African feminist theories, I examine how both films grapple with the complexities of visualizing race and gender against the backdrop of a changing South Africa. I also consider the ways in which Zulu Love Letter and Yesterday negotiate a language and gaze to repr…
Splitting and becoming double in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
This article explores Zakes Mda’s fascination with and deployment of the (leit)motif of twins, doubles/doppelgängers, and the notion of duality in his novels. In a close reading of The Heart of Redness, I explore how Mda dramatizes the breakdown of Xhosa society during the colonial encounters with the British and their continued impact on the present. I am also interested in the ways in which this novel animates the tensions between colonial mode…
Fraught Starts, Fragmented Twists, and Forged Endings: (Re)Imagining and (Re)Imaging Black Womanhood in Zulu Love Letter and Yesterday
This article explores the representations of black womanhood in the postapartheid films Zulu Love Letter (dir. Ramdan Suleman, 2004) and Yesterday (dir. Darrell Roodt, 2004). Drawing on African feminist theories, I examine how both films grapple with the complexities of visualizing race and gender against the backdrop of a changing South Africa. I also consider the ways in which Zulu Love Letter and Yesterday negotiate a language and gaze to repr…
Plunging into the Mire of Corruption and Pleasure”: Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home
This article presents a close reading of Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home, particularly its representation of the post-apartheid nation-state as a place of excess or, indeed, what James Ogude might call a “a site of eating”. To begin, I locate Mhlongo’s oeuvre within the long and rich tradition of black-centred artistic expression that is preoccupied with black masculinities and the politics/performance of ‘hustling’. Turning to Way Back Home specific…
Splitting and becoming double in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
This article explores Zakes Mda’s fascination with and deployment of the (leit)motif of twins, doubles/doppelgängers, and the notion of duality in his novels. In a close reading of The Heart of Redness, I explore how Mda dramatizes the breakdown of Xhosa society during the colonial encounters with the British and their continued impact on the present. I am also interested in the ways in which this novel animates the tensions between colonial mode…
Jerome Pikwane, dir. The Tokoloshe. 2018. 92 minutes. English and isiZulu, with English subtitles. South Africa. Indigenous Film Distribution. No price reported
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
African history and culture studies (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works)