Wamuwi Mbao
Biographic Data
| ID | 6596765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wamuwi Mbao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wamuwi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mbao |
| SIGNATURE | MBAO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4026-7872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Staying with the crisis: A review of Eve Fairbanks’s The Inheritors
The question of what the legacy of South Africa’s democratic moment will be is one that has taken on new dimensions in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Since 1994, the country has bee
Feeling towards the Contemporary: Judging New South African Fiction
The awarding of a prize to a work of art is meant to convey something about the value of that work in the world. But art prizes always provoke questions that evade easy answering: what purpose do prizes serve? What visions of life are promoted when we choose one book over another? How do the judges arrive at their choices? This response tells a partial story about the process of judging a literary award and what informs the event of decision-maki…
Terror Terroir: Building Disruptive Possibilities in Ivan Vladislavić’s The Folly
Ivan Vladislavić’s 1993 novel The Folly has received less critical attention than his other writing. The novel was republished recently and, in this article, I read The Folly as a text that, from the vantage point of 1993, stages white South African suburbia as a site fraught with tensions. In the novel, the appearance of a drifter on a terrain vague dissolves the certainties of a suburban neighbourhood, creating an inchoate but gnawing sense of …
Culture and spectacle: Making meaning from the spectacular reception of Inxeba
Inxeba (The Wound) has emerged as an immensely vital film in the ongoing quest for greater representation of queer subjectivities. The film scripts a narrative whose affective capacity has a great deal to do with the notion that it telling a story that has hitherto not been publicly aired. However, as the film gained prominence and won awards, it was met with a violent backlash from sectors of society who felt that the film misrepresented aspects…
The new black middle class in South Africa, by Roger Southall
Testing Style: Imraan Coovadia’s Transformations and the Performance of Restless Wisdom
This article engages with Coovadia’s essays as expressions of, to use Leon De Kock’s phrase, “public wisdom” that trouble the boundaries between “serious” academic work and the play of “the critical intelligence in the imaginative position” (to borrow from David Shields)
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Testing Style: Imraan Coovadia’s Transformations and the Performance of Restless Wisdom
This article engages with Coovadia’s essays as expressions of, to use Leon De Kock’s phrase, “public wisdom” that trouble the boundaries between “serious” academic work and the play of “the critical intelligence in the imaginative position” (to borrow from David Shields)
The new black middle class in South Africa, by Roger Southall
Terror Terroir: Building Disruptive Possibilities in Ivan Vladislavić’s The Folly
Ivan Vladislavić’s 1993 novel The Folly has received less critical attention than his other writing. The novel was republished recently and, in this article, I read The Folly as a text that, from the vantage point of 1993, stages white South African suburbia as a site fraught with tensions. In the novel, the appearance of a drifter on a terrain vague dissolves the certainties of a suburban neighbourhood, creating an inchoate but gnawing sense of …
Culture and spectacle: Making meaning from the spectacular reception of Inxeba
Inxeba (The Wound) has emerged as an immensely vital film in the ongoing quest for greater representation of queer subjectivities. The film scripts a narrative whose affective capacity has a great deal to do with the notion that it telling a story that has hitherto not been publicly aired. However, as the film gained prominence and won awards, it was met with a violent backlash from sectors of society who felt that the film misrepresented aspects…
Staying with the crisis: A review of Eve Fairbanks’s The Inheritors
The question of what the legacy of South Africa’s democratic moment will be is one that has taken on new dimensions in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Since 1994, the country has bee
Feeling towards the Contemporary: Judging New South African Fiction
The awarding of a prize to a work of art is meant to convey something about the value of that work in the world. But art prizes always provoke questions that evade easy answering: what purpose do prizes serve? What visions of life are promoted when we choose one book over another? How do the judges arrive at their choices? This response tells a partial story about the process of judging a literary award and what informs the event of decision-maki…
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