Sope Maithufi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6177445 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sope Maithufi |
| NOMBRES | Sope |
| APELLIDO | Maithufi |
| FIRMA | MAITHUFI S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3936-9801 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Mitshimbilo (“Wanderlust Disease”)
This article extends a deliberation on the centrality of the shaman to the spiritual turn in African literatures, where it was argued that Ben Okri and Zakes Mda’s respective models of shamanism in Sculptors of Mapungubwe and Dangerous Love are bound inward and outward. This argument is rephrased; this time, postulating that, in both authors’ work, shamanism surfaces in heterogeneous and interlocking voices – all keyed into the motif of travel su…
Nelson Mandela
This article considers how Nelson Mandela’s immediate family members intellectualised themselves within his legacy when he was terminal and upon his death. These specifics sublimate and set him apart from the eulogising tendency such as it has energised the scholarship on him. The tactics highlight tradition as an analytical category. Citing succession as a key episteme, the discussion delineates how tradition rarefies in non-hegemonic, mobile an…
Shamanism
This article considers the theme of shamanism in those novels of Zakes Mda that trace it to the people named respectively ‘abaThwa’, ‘Khoikhoi’, ‘Barwa’, ‘San’ and ‘IXam’, as opposed to amaXhosa and Basotho who comprise this fiction’s dominant orders. The proposition is that shamanism is a discourse in which it is believed that, having entered into a trance, the performer articulates alterities and effects healing in his/her people. Notable in th…
Of Fire and Rejuvenation
In the novels, Scatter the ashes and go (Ravan 2002) and Rumours (Jacana Media 2013), Mongane Wally Serote depicts post-apartheid through a leitmotif central to which the soldier of the African National Congress military wing, ‘Umkhonto We Sizwe’ (MK), is ostensibly caught in an interrupted odyssey. In Scatter the Ashes and go, this soldier has returned from exile in various Southern African countries to a South Africa that is on the threshold of…
The Inward and Outward Trajectories of the Shaman's Journeys
This article teases out a dialogue between Zakes Mda's The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013) and Ben Okri's Dangerous love (1988), fictions that foreground art and delineate it as a shamanic ritual site. Having provided synopses of ritual in these two novels, the discussion then goes on to remark on the concern with this key subject in these novels’ respective scholarships. Thereafter, the examination moves on to suggest that these overlapping highl…
Reclaiming Masculinities
“[L]ike other phenomena of spiritual culture ... [that] preserve for a long time old forms under new conditions”, a Bheki Maseko story reads like “folklore” (Propp 1984: 13). This article considers the significance of storytelling in mediating the depersonalisation that is caused by migrancy in Maseko's Mamlambo and Other Stories (1991). The first section considers the interrelatedness between the aesthetic strategies deployed in the stories and …
In the dialectic of memory
This article considers Farida Karodia's construction of an alternative engagement with the violence of apartheid on the nuclear family. It proposes that central to her representation is the narration of this primary space of socialization in enunciations that reveal how apartheid interpellated kith and kin in the besieging of fatherhood. The suggestion is that depicting the family in these elocutions foregrounds it as a site of gender-specific ca…
The edge of things
Secular Blackness in Zoë Wicomb's Short Stories
This article submits that self-reclamation in Zoë Wicomb's short-story cycle, “You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town” and Other Stories, is revealed through storytelling. “Ritual enactment”, the phrase that bell hooks uses to depict the kind of narrative that calls to mind the mediation of the images of black depersonalisation especially as it pertains to the corporal body, is used in this discussion to explore memory as a site of resistance. The argum…
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Secular Blackness in Zoë Wicomb's Short Stories
This article submits that self-reclamation in Zoë Wicomb's short-story cycle, “You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town” and Other Stories, is revealed through storytelling. “Ritual enactment”, the phrase that bell hooks uses to depict the kind of narrative that calls to mind the mediation of the images of black depersonalisation especially as it pertains to the corporal body, is used in this discussion to explore memory as a site of resistance. The argum…
The edge of things
Reclaiming Masculinities
“[L]ike other phenomena of spiritual culture ... [that] preserve for a long time old forms under new conditions”, a Bheki Maseko story reads like “folklore” (Propp 1984: 13). This article considers the significance of storytelling in mediating the depersonalisation that is caused by migrancy in Maseko's Mamlambo and Other Stories (1991). The first section considers the interrelatedness between the aesthetic strategies deployed in the stories and …
In the dialectic of memory
This article considers Farida Karodia's construction of an alternative engagement with the violence of apartheid on the nuclear family. It proposes that central to her representation is the narration of this primary space of socialization in enunciations that reveal how apartheid interpellated kith and kin in the besieging of fatherhood. The suggestion is that depicting the family in these elocutions foregrounds it as a site of gender-specific ca…
Of Fire and Rejuvenation
In the novels, Scatter the ashes and go (Ravan 2002) and Rumours (Jacana Media 2013), Mongane Wally Serote depicts post-apartheid through a leitmotif central to which the soldier of the African National Congress military wing, ‘Umkhonto We Sizwe’ (MK), is ostensibly caught in an interrupted odyssey. In Scatter the Ashes and go, this soldier has returned from exile in various Southern African countries to a South Africa that is on the threshold of…
The Inward and Outward Trajectories of the Shaman's Journeys
This article teases out a dialogue between Zakes Mda's The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013) and Ben Okri's Dangerous love (1988), fictions that foreground art and delineate it as a shamanic ritual site. Having provided synopses of ritual in these two novels, the discussion then goes on to remark on the concern with this key subject in these novels’ respective scholarships. Thereafter, the examination moves on to suggest that these overlapping highl…
Shamanism
This article considers the theme of shamanism in those novels of Zakes Mda that trace it to the people named respectively ‘abaThwa’, ‘Khoikhoi’, ‘Barwa’, ‘San’ and ‘IXam’, as opposed to amaXhosa and Basotho who comprise this fiction’s dominant orders. The proposition is that shamanism is a discourse in which it is believed that, having entered into a trance, the performer articulates alterities and effects healing in his/her people. Notable in th…
Nelson Mandela
This article considers how Nelson Mandela’s immediate family members intellectualised themselves within his legacy when he was terminal and upon his death. These specifics sublimate and set him apart from the eulogising tendency such as it has energised the scholarship on him. The tactics highlight tradition as an analytical category. Citing succession as a key episteme, the discussion delineates how tradition rarefies in non-hegemonic, mobile an…
Mitshimbilo (“Wanderlust Disease”)
This article extends a deliberation on the centrality of the shaman to the spiritual turn in African literatures, where it was argued that Ben Okri and Zakes Mda’s respective models of shamanism in Sculptors of Mapungubwe and Dangerous Love are bound inward and outward. This argument is rephrased; this time, postulating that, in both authors’ work, shamanism surfaces in heterogeneous and interlocking voices – all keyed into the motif of travel su…
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