Sofia Kostelac
Biographic Data
| ID | 7501951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofia Kostelac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofia |
| FAMILY NAME | Kostelac |
| SIGNATURE | KOSTELAC S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6895-1553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mrs Dalloway in Johannesburg: Reconceptualizing Literariness in Woolf’s Novel after #FeesMustFall1
This article describes my experience teaching Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway as part of a third-year English Literature course during the #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa and the calls for curriculum transformation across the academy that ensued. In particular, it discusses students’ heightened awareness of “the social function of difficulty” (Diepeveen 30) and the critical doubt to which activist readings of Woolf’s aesthetic were subsequen…
The (Im)possibility of a New Cosmopolitanism? Damon Galgut’s Critique of Residual Cultural Scripts in The Impostor
This article analyses Damon Galgut’s 2008 novel, The Impostor, in light of recent critiques which argue that South African writing is beset by “repetition compulsions” (Boehmer 2018: 90) that betray the nation’s sublimated traumas and unhealable wounds. It argues that Galgut’s novel does not simply rehearse the tropes of South Africa’s literature of crisis, but rather subjects them to extended metafictional and ironic critique. Among the targets …
The Singularity of Damon Galgut's Small Circle of Beings
This article offers a close reading of Damon Galgut's Small Circle of Beings, a novella which attracted little interest upon its initial publication in 1988 and remains one of the most critically neglected works in his oeuvre. I suggest that the novella's neglect sheds light on some of the reading protocols which governed the reception of local writing in the late apartheid years and continue to inform definitions of what “properly” constituted S…
The body is his, pulse and motion”: Violence and Desire in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins
This article examines Yvonne Vera’s representation of sexual violence in her 2002 novel The Stone Virgins. Set during the violent period of Zimbabwe’s postindependence history known as the gukurahundi, the novel shows how women’s bodies are made to bear the material wounds of protracted national struggles. Vera complicates this critique by articulating scenes of murder and rape using an intensely intimate lexicon, conventionally associated with a…
The body is his, pulse and motion”: Violence and Desire in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins
This article examines Yvonne Vera’s representation of sexual violence in her 2002 novel The Stone Virgins. Set during the violent period of Zimbabwe’s postindependence history known as the gukurahundi, the novel shows how women’s bodies are made to bear the material wounds of protracted national struggles. Vera complicates this critique by articulating scenes of murder and rape using an intensely intimate lexicon, conventionally associated with a…
The body is his, pulse and motion”: Violence and Desire in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins
This article examines Yvonne Vera’s representation of sexual violence in her 2002 novel The Stone Virgins. Set during the violent period of Zimbabwe’s postindependence history known as the gukurahundi, the novel shows how women’s bodies are made to bear the material wounds of protracted national struggles. Vera complicates this critique by articulating scenes of murder and rape using an intensely intimate lexicon, conventionally associated with a…
The Singularity of Damon Galgut's Small Circle of Beings
This article offers a close reading of Damon Galgut's Small Circle of Beings, a novella which attracted little interest upon its initial publication in 1988 and remains one of the most critically neglected works in his oeuvre. I suggest that the novella's neglect sheds light on some of the reading protocols which governed the reception of local writing in the late apartheid years and continue to inform definitions of what “properly” constituted S…
Mrs Dalloway in Johannesburg: Reconceptualizing Literariness in Woolf’s Novel after #FeesMustFall1
This article describes my experience teaching Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway as part of a third-year English Literature course during the #FeesMustFall protests in South Africa and the calls for curriculum transformation across the academy that ensued. In particular, it discusses students’ heightened awareness of “the social function of difficulty” (Diepeveen 30) and the critical doubt to which activist readings of Woolf’s aesthetic were subsequen…
The (Im)possibility of a New Cosmopolitanism? Damon Galgut’s Critique of Residual Cultural Scripts in The Impostor
This article analyses Damon Galgut’s 2008 novel, The Impostor, in light of recent critiques which argue that South African writing is beset by “repetition compulsions” (Boehmer 2018: 90) that betray the nation’s sublimated traumas and unhealable wounds. It argues that Galgut’s novel does not simply rehearse the tropes of South Africa’s literature of crisis, but rather subjects them to extended metafictional and ironic critique. Among the targets …
Art (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · History (2 works)