Ralph Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6597450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Boundary issues and beyond
This article is written primarily within the Derridean frame of différance, his composite term which alludes to both “deferral” and “difference” and challenges Ferdinand Saussure’s notion of language, which the latter saw as stable. In its place Jacques Derrida offers another convention – of engaged delay between signifier and referent – a “form of critical dialogue” with language (Johnson1997: 53), from which more significant meaning (and action…
Homage to Mr Turner
Pilgrimage of the sperm
Reprise
Kopano Matlwa's Coconut
This article demonstrates how Kopano Matlwa's recent novel, Coconut, highlights the faultlines that persist in contemporary South African society. The dangers of binary thinking and certain modernist approaches are discussed, and the influence of racist and colonial approaches is demonstrated. Coconut reflects current South African social and political realities, showing how the results of apartheid continue to haunt race relations, and how struc…
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Ivan Vladislavić's Portrait with Keys
Portrait with Keys: Joburg and What-what IVAN VLADISLAVIC Roggebaai, Umuzi, 2006, pp. 211 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4152-0020-91 1 Also published in the United Kingdom as Portrait with Keys: The City of Joh
The man, the woman and the whale
Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller is set in the Western Cape village of Hermanus, which proves to be an idyllic place only for tourists and rich South Africans, framing a story of doomed love for its three chief protagonists, Saluni, the otherwise nameless Whale Caller, and Sharisha, a female whale. The Whale Caller revolves around a love story with a timely narrative which, at a point in South African history when some influential voices have been su…
Ivan Vladislavić's The exploded view
This essay discusses Ivan Vladislavić's The exploded view as a satirical text about the construction of space in post-1994 South Africa. The text consists of four sections, each of which foregrounds attempts to grapple with and represent various South African spaces, both literal and figurative. The census-taker in section one, the town-planner in section two, the trendy artist in section three and the philosophizing erector of billboards in sect…
De‐scribing the centre
In The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) Zakes Mda makes use of both satiric and postcoloniai strategies to create discursive fissures within colonial discourses, with a strong focus on issues of race and the Immorality Act in particular. This essay explores the nature of both satire and postcolonialism as dialogic, heteroglossic textual forms which serve to liberate the subject from the power of hegemonic language, contrasting satire and postcoloniali…
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Ivan Vladislavić's Portrait with Keys
Portrait with Keys: Joburg and What-what IVAN VLADISLAVIC Roggebaai, Umuzi, 2006, pp. 211 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4152-0020-91 1 Also published in the United Kingdom as Portrait with Keys: The City of Joh
Boundary issues and beyond
This article is written primarily within the Derridean frame of différance, his composite term which alludes to both “deferral” and “difference” and challenges Ferdinand Saussure’s notion of language, which the latter saw as stable. In its place Jacques Derrida offers another convention – of engaged delay between signifier and referent – a “form of critical dialogue” with language (Johnson1997: 53), from which more significant meaning (and action…
Ivan Vladislavić's The exploded view
This essay discusses Ivan Vladislavić's The exploded view as a satirical text about the construction of space in post-1994 South Africa. The text consists of four sections, each of which foregrounds attempts to grapple with and represent various South African spaces, both literal and figurative. The census-taker in section one, the town-planner in section two, the trendy artist in section three and the philosophizing erector of billboards in sect…
De‐scribing the centre
In The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) Zakes Mda makes use of both satiric and postcoloniai strategies to create discursive fissures within colonial discourses, with a strong focus on issues of race and the Immorality Act in particular. This essay explores the nature of both satire and postcolonialism as dialogic, heteroglossic textual forms which serve to liberate the subject from the power of hegemonic language, contrasting satire and postcoloniali…
Ivan Vladislavić's The exploded view
This essay discusses Ivan Vladislavić's The exploded view as a satirical text about the construction of space in post-1994 South Africa. The text consists of four sections, each of which foregrounds attempts to grapple with and represent various South African spaces, both literal and figurative. The census-taker in section one, the town-planner in section two, the trendy artist in section three and the philosophizing erector of billboards in sect…
The man, the woman and the whale
Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller is set in the Western Cape village of Hermanus, which proves to be an idyllic place only for tourists and rich South Africans, framing a story of doomed love for its three chief protagonists, Saluni, the otherwise nameless Whale Caller, and Sharisha, a female whale. The Whale Caller revolves around a love story with a timely narrative which, at a point in South African history when some influential voices have been su…
Ivan Vladislavić's Portrait with Keys
Portrait with Keys: Joburg and What-what IVAN VLADISLAVIC Roggebaai, Umuzi, 2006, pp. 211 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4152-0020-91 1 Also published in the United Kingdom as Portrait with Keys: The City of Joh
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Kopano Matlwa's Coconut
This article demonstrates how Kopano Matlwa's recent novel, Coconut, highlights the faultlines that persist in contemporary South African society. The dangers of binary thinking and certain modernist approaches are discussed, and the influence of racist and colonial approaches is demonstrated. Coconut reflects current South African social and political realities, showing how the results of apartheid continue to haunt race relations, and how struc…
Pilgrimage of the sperm
Reprise
Homage to Mr Turner
Boundary issues and beyond
This article is written primarily within the Derridean frame of différance, his composite term which alludes to both “deferral” and “difference” and challenges Ferdinand Saussure’s notion of language, which the latter saw as stable. In its place Jacques Derrida offers another convention – of engaged delay between signifier and referent – a “form of critical dialogue” with language (Johnson1997: 53), from which more significant meaning (and action…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)