Jane Starfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 80747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Starfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Starfield |
| SIGNATURE | STARFIELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remembrance of things past and recent: Modiri Molema's letters home to Mafeking
Modiri Molema was a medical student at Glasgow during the First World War. The war kept him in Scotland far longer than his five-year medical curriculum required and inspired the many letters that he wrote to bridge the gulf between the two spaces in which he lived, Glasgow and Mafeking. Though written during wartime, his letters did not share the phlegmatic self-censorship that made the epistolary style of soldiers “a literature of their own”, i…
A Member of the Race’: Dr Modiri Molema's Intellectual Engagement with the Popular History of South Africa, 1912–1921
This paper offers a prelude to the reconsideration of the writing life and contribution of an African intellectual and nationalist who, studiously and courageously, subjected the concepts of race, culture and nationalism to critical evaluation. Molema's engagement with popular politics began after his return from years of studying medicine at Glasgow University. However, from 1912 to 1921, he engaged with the history of South Africa intellectuall…
The humane art”
Change, continuity and cultural studies: The development of an alternative humanities curriculum for Vista University, Soweto
This article on a proposed undergraduate cultural studies curriculum at Vista University (Soweto, South Africa) reflects also on the potential of the subject to analyse and transform its social and educational contexts. Special attention is paid here to outlining the specific economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the national and institutional contexts for this proposed course. Then the aims and shape of the course itself is outl…
Phyllis Lewsen: A Tribute
Extracted from text ... 1. As this is a personal tribute with aspects of a formal obituary, we have decided to refer to Professor Lewsen as Phyllis. 184 South African Historical Journal 44 (May 2001), 184-194 Phyllis Lewsen: A Tribute Jane Starfield and Sue Krige Vista University and University of the Witwatersrand Phyllis's is quite an orthodox collection of music, unless one looks carefully: Mozart's major concerti, his best-known operas, his c…
A Dance with the Empire: Modiri Molema's Glasgow Years, 1914-1921
This paper examines Seetsele Modiri Molema's World War I stay in Glasgow during which, in addition to his medical studies, he completed a lengthy argumentative history of African southern Africans. In analysing this vital episode of Molema's life, this paper engages with one of Shula Marks's most substantial contributions to the historiography of the past three decades: the concept of ambiguity as a means of understanding the complex relationship…
Re-thinking Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary
(2001). Re-thinking Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 855-863
The return of Bessie head
Bessie Head, The Cardinals, with Meditations and Short Stories (Heinemann Educational Publishers, Oxford, 1993 and 1995), xvi + 141 pp., £5.99 pbk, ISBN 0–435–90967–3. Bessie Head, Maru (Heinemann Educational Publishers, Oxford, 1971 and 1995), 123 pp., £4.99 pbk, ISBN 0–435–90963–0
An Acute Social and Economic Analysis
On the Prescribed List
Reawakening the dead: J.B. Peires'S the dead will arise and the writing of oral history
Not quite history’: The Autobiographies H. Selby Msimang and R.V. Selope Thema and the writing of South African history
This paper examines the kind of contribution autobiographical writings may make to an historical reworking of the events in which the writers are involved. Autobiography, being the very conscious revaluation ‐ often re‐creation — and presentation of the self, is a most problematic genre. Its narrative perspective is subjective; its authentication almost entirely personal, rather than documentary. These limitations should flash red lights at the h…
Books reviewed
Kevin Shillington, The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana 1870–1900 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985). Pp. xxiv+311. R20/£10.95 paperback. (Available from Third World Publications, 151 Stratford Road, Birmingham B11 1RD.) André Odendaal, Vukani Bantu! The Beginnings of Black Protest Politics in South Africa to 1912 (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1984). Pp. xv+391. £7.75. Beatrix Heintze (ed.), Fontes para a história de Angola do sécu…
Not quite history’: The Autobiographies H. Selby Msimang and R.V. Selope Thema and the writing of South African history
This paper examines the kind of contribution autobiographical writings may make to an historical reworking of the events in which the writers are involved. Autobiography, being the very conscious revaluation ‐ often re‐creation — and presentation of the self, is a most problematic genre. Its narrative perspective is subjective; its authentication almost entirely personal, rather than documentary. These limitations should flash red lights at the h…
Remembrance of things past and recent: Modiri Molema's letters home to Mafeking
Modiri Molema was a medical student at Glasgow during the First World War. The war kept him in Scotland far longer than his five-year medical curriculum required and inspired the many letters that he wrote to bridge the gulf between the two spaces in which he lived, Glasgow and Mafeking. Though written during wartime, his letters did not share the phlegmatic self-censorship that made the epistolary style of soldiers “a literature of their own”, i…
Re-thinking Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary
(2001). Re-thinking Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 855-863
The return of Bessie head
Bessie Head, The Cardinals, with Meditations and Short Stories (Heinemann Educational Publishers, Oxford, 1993 and 1995), xvi + 141 pp., £5.99 pbk, ISBN 0–435–90967–3. Bessie Head, Maru (Heinemann Educational Publishers, Oxford, 1971 and 1995), 123 pp., £4.99 pbk, ISBN 0–435–90963–0
Books reviewed
Kevin Shillington, The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana 1870–1900 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985). Pp. xxiv+311. R20/£10.95 paperback. (Available from Third World Publications, 151 Stratford Road, Birmingham B11 1RD.) André Odendaal, Vukani Bantu! The Beginnings of Black Protest Politics in South Africa to 1912 (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1984). Pp. xv+391. £7.75. Beatrix Heintze (ed.), Fontes para a história de Angola do sécu…
Not quite history’: The Autobiographies H. Selby Msimang and R.V. Selope Thema and the writing of South African history
This paper examines the kind of contribution autobiographical writings may make to an historical reworking of the events in which the writers are involved. Autobiography, being the very conscious revaluation ‐ often re‐creation — and presentation of the self, is a most problematic genre. Its narrative perspective is subjective; its authentication almost entirely personal, rather than documentary. These limitations should flash red lights at the h…
Reawakening the dead: J.B. Peires'S the dead will arise and the writing of oral history
On the Prescribed List
An Acute Social and Economic Analysis
The return of Bessie head
Bessie Head, The Cardinals, with Meditations and Short Stories (Heinemann Educational Publishers, Oxford, 1993 and 1995), xvi + 141 pp., £5.99 pbk, ISBN 0–435–90967–3. Bessie Head, Maru (Heinemann Educational Publishers, Oxford, 1971 and 1995), 123 pp., £4.99 pbk, ISBN 0–435–90963–0
Phyllis Lewsen: A Tribute
Extracted from text ... 1. As this is a personal tribute with aspects of a formal obituary, we have decided to refer to Professor Lewsen as Phyllis. 184 South African Historical Journal 44 (May 2001), 184-194 Phyllis Lewsen: A Tribute Jane Starfield and Sue Krige Vista University and University of the Witwatersrand Phyllis's is quite an orthodox collection of music, unless one looks carefully: Mozart's major concerti, his best-known operas, his c…
A Dance with the Empire: Modiri Molema's Glasgow Years, 1914-1921
This paper examines Seetsele Modiri Molema's World War I stay in Glasgow during which, in addition to his medical studies, he completed a lengthy argumentative history of African southern Africans. In analysing this vital episode of Molema's life, this paper engages with one of Shula Marks's most substantial contributions to the historiography of the past three decades: the concept of ambiguity as a means of understanding the complex relationship…
Re-thinking Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary
(2001). Re-thinking Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 855-863
Change, continuity and cultural studies: The development of an alternative humanities curriculum for Vista University, Soweto
This article on a proposed undergraduate cultural studies curriculum at Vista University (Soweto, South Africa) reflects also on the potential of the subject to analyse and transform its social and educational contexts. Special attention is paid here to outlining the specific economic, political, social and cultural conditions of the national and institutional contexts for this proposed course. Then the aims and shape of the course itself is outl…
The humane art”
A Member of the Race’: Dr Modiri Molema's Intellectual Engagement with the Popular History of South Africa, 1912–1921
This paper offers a prelude to the reconsideration of the writing life and contribution of an African intellectual and nationalist who, studiously and courageously, subjected the concepts of race, culture and nationalism to critical evaluation. Molema's engagement with popular politics began after his return from years of studying medicine at Glasgow University. However, from 1912 to 1921, he engaged with the history of South Africa intellectuall…
Remembrance of things past and recent: Modiri Molema's letters home to Mafeking
Modiri Molema was a medical student at Glasgow during the First World War. The war kept him in Scotland far longer than his five-year medical curriculum required and inspired the many letters that he wrote to bridge the gulf between the two spaces in which he lived, Glasgow and Mafeking. Though written during wartime, his letters did not share the phlegmatic self-censorship that made the epistolary style of soldiers “a literature of their own”, i…
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