Elsie Cloete
Biographic Data
| ID | 802735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elsie Cloete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elsie |
| FAMILY NAME | Cloete |
| SIGNATURE | CLOETE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Going on safari
In Kiswahili, the word safari simply means going on a journey. This article is about journeys begun, aborted and ended by two people with the matching names of Koos Prinsloo. Koos Prinsloo Senior used his handwritten memoir about his journeys and hunting adventures as a symbolic reference to his masculinity and frontiersman status in Kenya at the height of British colonialism. Koos Prinsloo Junior, his Kenyan-born grandson, who left Kenya as a yo…
Going to the bush
English, in the words of Bill Bryson, ‘is one of the world's great growth industries’. Like some kind of metalanguage with its own Europe‐based meaning systems, it has constructed its own discourses in relation to Africa's conserved natural environment, nature documentaries, tourism and environmental education – at the expense of indigenous knowledge systems, cultural practices and languages. This paper examines the potency of English when it com…
Women, Home and Personal Narrative in Kenya
The reading of home is especially problematic with regard to a great many women in the postcolony of Kenya, and the major part of this article will focus on how one of Kenya's most controversial women's rights activists, Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, has become unhomed. In particular, I shall concentrate on a select number of chapters in her autobiography, Mau Mau's Daughter (1998) – those dealing with the burial of her husband, where the idea of home i…
Africa's ‘Charismatic Megafauna’ and Berlin's ‘Two Concepts of Liberty
Charismatic megafauna are those animals, in particular elephants, which have achieved international star status and have been accorded moral significance. In southern Africa, where elephants are relatively plentiful, environmental havoc is being wreaked because so many of them are confined within fortress-like islands of conservation. International and local pressure on nations in Africa to not only preserve biodiversity and conserve and increase…
Tigers, Humans and Animots
This article tracks the spoor of the tiger within recent literary imagination before turning to the narrative coils in Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2003), where a young boy, Pi, is stranded on a lifeboat with Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. A tiger, as Margaret Attwood notes, "that burns bright... that glows with life-force, that roars and rips things apart", "[a] tiger, that disappears without a trace into a jungle once land is reached le…
Fixing the guilt
This article examines the emergence of popular detective fiction in Africa as part of a new third wave of literature. While the new wave is a very particular response to conditions on the continent it nevertheless taps into the main streams of detective fiction that have emerged from Britain and in some respects the USA in the last hundred years. In particular this article focuses on the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Sm…
Being ‘unAfrican’
This article reflects on notions of being unAfrican, ideas of the father and the invention of tradition in the postcolony. The basis for analysis is a Nairobi street pamphlet and the ways in which ordinary Kenyans, reading the pamphlet, reacted to the presence of two policemen sauntering past
Specificities
Afrikaner Identity
Going to the bush
English, in the words of Bill Bryson, ‘is one of the world's great growth industries’. Like some kind of metalanguage with its own Europe‐based meaning systems, it has constructed its own discourses in relation to Africa's conserved natural environment, nature documentaries, tourism and environmental education – at the expense of indigenous knowledge systems, cultural practices and languages. This paper examines the potency of English when it com…
Afrikaner Identity
Women, Home and Personal Narrative in Kenya
The reading of home is especially problematic with regard to a great many women in the postcolony of Kenya, and the major part of this article will focus on how one of Kenya's most controversial women's rights activists, Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, has become unhomed. In particular, I shall concentrate on a select number of chapters in her autobiography, Mau Mau's Daughter (1998) – those dealing with the burial of her husband, where the idea of home i…
Africa's ‘Charismatic Megafauna’ and Berlin's ‘Two Concepts of Liberty
Charismatic megafauna are those animals, in particular elephants, which have achieved international star status and have been accorded moral significance. In southern Africa, where elephants are relatively plentiful, environmental havoc is being wreaked because so many of them are confined within fortress-like islands of conservation. International and local pressure on nations in Africa to not only preserve biodiversity and conserve and increase…
Fixing the guilt
This article examines the emergence of popular detective fiction in Africa as part of a new third wave of literature. While the new wave is a very particular response to conditions on the continent it nevertheless taps into the main streams of detective fiction that have emerged from Britain and in some respects the USA in the last hundred years. In particular this article focuses on the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Sm…
Specificities
Afrikaner Identity
Specificities
Being ‘unAfrican’
This article reflects on notions of being unAfrican, ideas of the father and the invention of tradition in the postcolony. The basis for analysis is a Nairobi street pamphlet and the ways in which ordinary Kenyans, reading the pamphlet, reacted to the presence of two policemen sauntering past
Fixing the guilt
This article examines the emergence of popular detective fiction in Africa as part of a new third wave of literature. While the new wave is a very particular response to conditions on the continent it nevertheless taps into the main streams of detective fiction that have emerged from Britain and in some respects the USA in the last hundred years. In particular this article focuses on the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Sm…
Tigers, Humans and Animots
This article tracks the spoor of the tiger within recent literary imagination before turning to the narrative coils in Yann Martel's Life of Pi (2003), where a young boy, Pi, is stranded on a lifeboat with Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. A tiger, as Margaret Attwood notes, "that burns bright... that glows with life-force, that roars and rips things apart", "[a] tiger, that disappears without a trace into a jungle once land is reached le…
Women, Home and Personal Narrative in Kenya
The reading of home is especially problematic with regard to a great many women in the postcolony of Kenya, and the major part of this article will focus on how one of Kenya's most controversial women's rights activists, Wambui Waiyaki Otieno, has become unhomed. In particular, I shall concentrate on a select number of chapters in her autobiography, Mau Mau's Daughter (1998) – those dealing with the burial of her husband, where the idea of home i…
Africa's ‘Charismatic Megafauna’ and Berlin's ‘Two Concepts of Liberty
Charismatic megafauna are those animals, in particular elephants, which have achieved international star status and have been accorded moral significance. In southern Africa, where elephants are relatively plentiful, environmental havoc is being wreaked because so many of them are confined within fortress-like islands of conservation. International and local pressure on nations in Africa to not only preserve biodiversity and conserve and increase…
Going to the bush
English, in the words of Bill Bryson, ‘is one of the world's great growth industries’. Like some kind of metalanguage with its own Europe‐based meaning systems, it has constructed its own discourses in relation to Africa's conserved natural environment, nature documentaries, tourism and environmental education – at the expense of indigenous knowledge systems, cultural practices and languages. This paper examines the potency of English when it com…
Going on safari
In Kiswahili, the word safari simply means going on a journey. This article is about journeys begun, aborted and ended by two people with the matching names of Koos Prinsloo. Koos Prinsloo Senior used his handwritten memoir about his journeys and hunting adventures as a symbolic reference to his masculinity and frontiersman status in Kenya at the height of British colonialism. Koos Prinsloo Junior, his Kenyan-born grandson, who left Kenya as a yo…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works)