Diana Wylie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 146449 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Diana Wylie |
| PRENOMES | Diana |
| SOBRENOME | Wylie |
| ASSINATURA | WYLIE D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0148-8525 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
“A Sort of Arcadian Country”
Various branches of current ecocriticism are exploring ways of dismantling or at least diminishing dominant anthropocentric ways of evaluating the relationships among humans, the non-human world, and the literary imagination. Critical Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies, and multispecies ecocriticism endeavour to re-evaluate the roles, even agency, of non-human life, as represented in literary works. This article unpacks the depiction of plant…
Remember me”
This essay looks at the short life of one artist, Thami Mnyele, assassinated in 1985. Mnyele sacrificed his life for a vague vision of equality and sincere love for ordinary people. The essay notes his growing commitment to serving the "common good," both in his art and in his decision to become a MK soldier. Enduring times of extreme violence and distrust in the 1980s, he could not know that he was living on the cusp of radical change, when the …
The dark surrealism of Phyllis Haring’s poetry
The slender poetic oeuvre of Phyllis Haring (1919–2016) is now almost forgotten. Only one collection, A Taste of Salt, was published in 1976, and a number of poems appeared in small magazines until 1991. Though she is unquestionably a “minor poet,” I argue that her dream-like, dark yet musical work is worth attention, especially as something of a local pioneer in Surrealist techniques. (Surrealism’s influence more broadly in South African poetry …
Algeria
Defying the bulldozers
How does one actually DO ‘historic preservation’? The following essays and interview provide nuts and bolts responses to that question. Each focuses on the actual challenge of taking care of buildi
The work of historic preservation
The following interview addresses a big question at the heart of preservationist practice: how do you encourage people to appreciate the beauty and historical significance of their surroundings and to take care of them? The personal testimony of Abdeslem Abdelhak, active in Bel Horizon since its founding in 2001, conveys a nuanced and democratic vision of the role that associations can play in preserving architectural vestiges from the past. By t…
Sermon among the ruins”
Laurens van der Post is chiefly remembered by the general public for his voluminous and at times bewitchingly popular writings, and for his almost guru-like status as a conservationist. Yet only one early and incomplete monograph deals with Van der Post’s literary output. His several novels have received patchy critical attention, and none have been examined ecocritically, despite their pervasive ruminations upon the natural world. This article i…
Robert R. Edgar. The Finger of God
“Haunted Still by Memories”
Bulawayo-based writer John Eppel is gaining increased prominence and acceptance as Zimbabwe’s premier satirist, in both poetry and prose. Early critics, even fellow-poets, failed to read the coruscating and self-referential nature of that satire, and poems treating the natural world were too easily dismissed as Romantic “white” nostalgia. A closer reading reveals a subtler range of questions, exploring the relations between white or Rhodesian ide…
They’ve killed the dogs!”
This article explores the positioning of the dog in representations of farm takeovers in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2017. It highlights the localised embeddedness of animal lives within social processes at a specific juncture of postcolonial history. The article focuses particularly on this moment marked by abrupt reversals of power, geographical distributions of people and animals, and the erasure of many physical and psychological borderlines. I…
Under Glass (Claire Robertson)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Introduction
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Learning Zulu
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Mongrel
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Touching Trunks
Nothing may be more crucial to the future of animals within ecology than appropriately educating our children. In this article, the author explores the question “How do we educate children about wild animals?” through an examination of three teen novels about elephants. All three novels are set in southern Africa, and so can be contextualised (indeed, contextualise themselves) tightly within quite specific socio-political, racial, economic and ec…
The garden of love's decay”
Alan Mabin recently noted that “Suburbs have been a silent presence in the widely disseminated ‘models’ of the apartheid city. [H]ow the suburbs happened is assumed rather than understood.” Many suburbs, including the famously well-treed northern suburbs of Johannesburg and, indeed, the historically white suburbs of Grahamstown, do not fit the American or Australian stereotype; their uses and meanings prove to be extremely patchy and variable in …
Not Quite a Refutation
Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, landscape and the problem of belonging David McDermott Hughes New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 224 pp. (pbk) 978-0-230-62143-5 I most often frame the way light strik
Environment at the margins
Environment at the margins: literary and environmental studies in Africa, edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2011, vii + 295 pp. including notes
Playing God in Small Spaces
This article seeks to address an apparent paucity of scholarly attention in two interrelated areas: a lack of detailed attention to the ecology of the suburban garden in South African urbanisation studies; and a dearth of attention to the suburban garden as locus and trope in South African literature. By briefly surveying urban-planning and related studies, and then focusing on the experiential and phenomenological dimensions of the garden poems …
Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction
This article focuses on the debate about the culling of elephants in South Africa and includes, as a literary example, the discussion of Mateerâ s poem
Ranka Primorac's The Place of Tears
(2009). Ranka Primorac's The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe. Scrutiny2: Vol. 14, The ‘States’ of Popular Culture, pp. 119-122
Decadence? The Khaldunian cycle in Algeria and South Africa
This article asks if Ibn Khaldun's cycle – his study of how civilisations rise and fall – is relevant to the modern world. Two introductory sections set the stage for the reply: a series of early nineteenth century American paintings is used to explicate the theory, which is then put in historical context. The theory is applied to two countries – Algeria and South Africa – where the sense of national solidarity changed radically at the end of the…
Kabbo's Challenge
The presence of the "Bushman" in southern African literature and media is pervasive; it is arguably an ineradicable part of our regional identity. Literature derived from San or Bushman testimony provides both an opportunity and a problem for an ecologically orientated critic. This article focuses on Alan James's versions of the testimony of //Kabbo, in the Bleek-Lloyd archive, to explore the question of whether any articulations of the "Bushman"…
Now strangers walk in that place’
Antjie Krog's treatment of testimonies from the Bleek and Lloyd Collection of /Xam (San) testimonies, the stars say 'tsau', belongs to a stream of such 'versions', beginning with Laurens van der Post and Eugène Marais and running through to modern poets, including Stephen Watson and Alan James. This article explores the dimensions of the displacements of modernity which have attracted these poets to the /Xam material, especially that of the infor…
Imagined corners”
In a world in which sometimes irreconcilable currents of globalization threaten to destabilize both notions of identity and belonging and the language in which such belonging is expressed, many writers turn to the specifics of locality as a form of resistance. The flattening-out effects of mainstream global culture are countered by poetics which are at once deliberately marginal (eccentric) and focused on the unique textures and denizens of regio…
The Colonial Disease
Confrontation over Kenya
Between the world wars, Colonial Office decisions regarding Kenya were subject to two opposed pressures: while the settlers wrestled with officials for greater control of their own affairs, a body of pro-African reformers loudly protested every concession and lobbied for equal rights and an end to the colour bar. This humanitarian lobby was largely the creation of two former colonial servants, Dr Norman Leys and W. McGregor Ross. Working mainly t…
A South African Kingdom
1. Introduction 2. Settlement and trade patterns before 1830 3. Political consolidation and the rise of Moshoeshoe in the 1820s 4. The land of the Basotho: the geographic extent of Moshoeshoe's authority, 1824-64 5. The European intrusion and the competition for land, 1834-68 6. Food and politics: feasts and famines 7. The rise and decline of craft specialization 8. The allocation of labor, 1830-1910 9. The local exchange of goods and services, 1…
Not Quite a Refutation
Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, landscape and the problem of belonging David McDermott Hughes New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 224 pp. (pbk) 978-0-230-62143-5 I most often frame the way light strik
Feeding Families
Starving on a Full Stomach
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
Contents: Introduction Part One: Islam and State: The Islamisation of Morocco from the Arabs to the Almoravids Ifriqiya as a market for Saharan trade from the 10th to the 12th century AD The Mim, the a Ayn, and the making of Ismaa ilism The realm of the Imam: the Fatimids in the 10th century Islam and trade in the Bilad al - Sudan, 10th-11th centuries AD The lamp of the Almohads: illumination as a political idea in 12th-century Morocco Morocco an…
Proprietor of Natal
If ever South Africa could boast of a Robinson Crusoe of her own, as affable, shrewd, politically sagacious, courageous and large-hearted as Defoe's, here is one to life... “Mr Fynn” [Fynn is] a greater ass and Don Quixote than one could possibly conceive. The fictional referents in these diametrically opposed judgments of Henry Francis Fynn (1806-61) alert us to the “constructed” nature of the reputation of this most famous of Shakan eyewitnesse…
Food and Society in Nigeria
The Changing Face of Hunger in Southern African History 1880-1980
THE CHANGING FACE OF HUNGER IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN HISTORY 1880–1980* Diana Wylie Diana Wylie Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar * This article has benefited from criticism by Chris Lowe, Howard Venable, Pauline Peters, Jacqueline Solway and Luis Varella, M.D. Author Notes Past & Present, Volume 122, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages 159–199, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/122.1.159 Published: 01 Febru…
Norman leys and Mcgregor Ross
(1977). Norman leys and Mcgregor Ross: A case study in the conscience of African empire 1900–39. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 294-309
The Anthropomorphic Ethic Fiction and the Animal Mind in Virginia Woolf 's Flush and Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone
Journal Article The Anthropomorphic Ethic Fiction and the Animal Mind in Virginia Woolf 's Flush and Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone Get access Dan Wylie Dan Wylie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 9, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 115-131, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/9.2.115 Published: 01 July 2002
Serving the Master, Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
Autobiography as Atibi
(1991). Autobiography as Atibi: History and Projection in Nathaniel Isaacs's Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa (1836) Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 71-90
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
The Realm of the Word
Textual Incest
Literary practitioners have long been, often uncomfortably, aware of the ambivalently fruitful and constraining rhetorical influences of the past. Writers successively utilize or rebel against traditional tropes, poetic conventions, and narrative norms, balancing cultural depth against individualist innovation, acceptability against rejection, public intelligibility against the opacity of private connotation. By such gestures towards the traditio…
Sermon among the ruins”
Laurens van der Post is chiefly remembered by the general public for his voluminous and at times bewitchingly popular writings, and for his almost guru-like status as a conservationist. Yet only one early and incomplete monograph deals with Van der Post’s literary output. His several novels have received patchy critical attention, and none have been examined ecocritically, despite their pervasive ruminations upon the natural world. This article i…
Minding Elephants and the Rhetorics of Destruction
This article focuses on the debate about the culling of elephants in South Africa and includes, as a literary example, the discussion of Mateerâ s poem
Decadence? The Khaldunian cycle in Algeria and South Africa
This article asks if Ibn Khaldun's cycle – his study of how civilisations rise and fall – is relevant to the modern world. Two introductory sections set the stage for the reply: a series of early nineteenth century American paintings is used to explicate the theory, which is then put in historical context. The theory is applied to two countries – Algeria and South Africa – where the sense of national solidarity changed radically at the end of the…
Imagined corners”
In a world in which sometimes irreconcilable currents of globalization threaten to destabilize both notions of identity and belonging and the language in which such belonging is expressed, many writers turn to the specifics of locality as a form of resistance. The flattening-out effects of mainstream global culture are countered by poetics which are at once deliberately marginal (eccentric) and focused on the unique textures and denizens of regio…
The Flogging of Phineas Mcintosh
Norman leys and Mcgregor Ross
(1977). Norman leys and Mcgregor Ross: A case study in the conscience of African empire 1900–39. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 294-309
Confrontation over Kenya
Between the world wars, Colonial Office decisions regarding Kenya were subject to two opposed pressures: while the settlers wrestled with officials for greater control of their own affairs, a body of pro-African reformers loudly protested every concession and lobbied for equal rights and an end to the colour bar. This humanitarian lobby was largely the creation of two former colonial servants, Dr Norman Leys and W. McGregor Ross. Working mainly t…
Wives for Cattle
The Flogging of Phineas Mcintosh
The Changing Face of Hunger in Southern African History 1880-1980
THE CHANGING FACE OF HUNGER IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN HISTORY 1880–1980* Diana Wylie Diana Wylie Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar * This article has benefited from criticism by Chris Lowe, Howard Venable, Pauline Peters, Jacqueline Solway and Luis Varella, M.D. Author Notes Past & Present, Volume 122, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages 159–199, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/122.1.159 Published: 01 Febru…
Autobiography as Atibi
(1991). Autobiography as Atibi: History and Projection in Nathaniel Isaacs's Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa (1836) Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 71-90
A Little God
Textual Incest
Literary practitioners have long been, often uncomfortably, aware of the ambivalently fruitful and constraining rhetorical influences of the past. Writers successively utilize or rebel against traditional tropes, poetic conventions, and narrative norms, balancing cultural depth against individualist innovation, acceptability against rejection, public intelligibility against the opacity of private connotation. By such gestures towards the traditio…
Bilharzia
Science and Empire
Of Revelation and Revolution
A Dangerous Admiration
(1993). A Dangerous Admiration: E.A. Ritter's Shaka Zulu. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 98-118
The Colonial Disease
The selves in the other
Proprietor of Natal
If ever South Africa could boast of a Robinson Crusoe of her own, as affable, shrewd, politically sagacious, courageous and large-hearted as Defoe's, here is one to life... “Mr Fynn” [Fynn is] a greater ass and Don Quixote than one could possibly conceive. The fictional referents in these diametrically opposed judgments of Henry Francis Fynn (1806-61) alert us to the “constructed” nature of the reputation of this most famous of Shakan eyewitnesse…
A South African Kingdom
1. Introduction 2. Settlement and trade patterns before 1830 3. Political consolidation and the rise of Moshoeshoe in the 1820s 4. The land of the Basotho: the geographic extent of Moshoeshoe's authority, 1824-64 5. The European intrusion and the competition for land, 1834-68 6. Food and politics: feasts and famines 7. The rise and decline of craft specialization 8. The allocation of labor, 1830-1910 9. The local exchange of goods and services, 1…
Food and Society in Nigeria
The Realm of the Word
Poems by Dan Wylie
Poems by Ian Tromp, Isobel Dixon, Kobus Moolman, Ishmael E Ai, and Dan Wylie
Serving the Master, Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen
Running towards Us
Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghrib
Contents: Introduction Part One: Islam and State: The Islamisation of Morocco from the Arabs to the Almoravids Ifriqiya as a market for Saharan trade from the 10th to the 12th century AD The Mim, the a Ayn, and the making of Ismaa ilism The realm of the Imam: the Fatimids in the 10th century Islam and trade in the Bilad al - Sudan, 10th-11th centuries AD The lamp of the Almohads: illumination as a political idea in 12th-century Morocco Morocco an…
The metaphysics of snails and other sentient beings
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