Kgomotso Masemola
Biographic Data
| ID | 7501972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kgomotso Masemola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kgomotso |
| FAMILY NAME | Masemola |
| SIGNATURE | MASEMOLA K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Synecdoche and Allegory in the Filmic Record of the Memory of African Genocide in John le Carré's The Constant Gardener
This article shows that the filmic depiction of the death of Tessa Quayle, a social activist portrayed by Rachel Weisz, is a memorialised historical allegory of genocide caused by deliberate and lethal clinical trials of drugs conducted throughout Africa. Although the film is set in Kenya, it tells the real story of the clinical genocide committed in Nigeria. The authors of this article do not delve into the academically naïve question of whether…
The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona
This article signposts the discussion of autobiographical selfing through figures of \ncultural memory that are a function of double consciousness and double temporality. \nTwo exemplary autobiographies, one by Ellen Kuzwayo and one by Sindiwe \nMagona, are shown to evince complex ontological formations between which the \ngap in representing the self of experience and the writing self is radically repeated in \nthe multiplicity of individual art…
Of belonging and becoming: Black atlantic (Inter‐)cultural memory in the early autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es'kia Mphahlele
Peter Abrahams was a major New African intellectual of the New African Movement. The New African Movement was a particular historical eventuation consisting of intellectuals, writers, musicians, political leaders and religious figures who – between the years 1904 and 1960 – constructed a singular form of modernity in South Africa known as “New African modernity.” One of the strongest outside forces influencing the construction of New African mode…
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Of belonging and becoming: Black atlantic (Inter‐)cultural memory in the early autobiographies of Peter Abrahams and Es'kia Mphahlele
Peter Abrahams was a major New African intellectual of the New African Movement. The New African Movement was a particular historical eventuation consisting of intellectuals, writers, musicians, political leaders and religious figures who – between the years 1904 and 1960 – constructed a singular form of modernity in South Africa known as “New African modernity.” One of the strongest outside forces influencing the construction of New African mode…
The Individuated Collective Utterance: Lack, Law and Desire in the Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Sindiwe Magona
This article signposts the discussion of autobiographical selfing through figures of \ncultural memory that are a function of double consciousness and double temporality. \nTwo exemplary autobiographies, one by Ellen Kuzwayo and one by Sindiwe \nMagona, are shown to evince complex ontological formations between which the \ngap in representing the self of experience and the writing self is radically repeated in \nthe multiplicity of individual art…
Synecdoche and Allegory in the Filmic Record of the Memory of African Genocide in John le Carré's The Constant Gardener
This article shows that the filmic depiction of the death of Tessa Quayle, a social activist portrayed by Rachel Weisz, is a memorialised historical allegory of genocide caused by deliberate and lethal clinical trials of drugs conducted throughout Africa. Although the film is set in Kenya, it tells the real story of the clinical genocide committed in Nigeria. The authors of this article do not delve into the academically naïve question of whether…
African history and culture studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)