M Samuelson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 19668 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Samuelson |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Samuelson |
| ASSINATURA | SAMUELSON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5070-1046 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Anomalous, Containerized and Inundating Waters
K. Sello Duiker’s novel Thirteen Cents focalizes water in profound ways from the spatial vantage point of the Cape Peninsula, a location that has been the setting of various decisive episodes in what Isabel Hofmeyr describes as “hydrocolonialism.” Figuring water’s anomalous properties and the procedures of containerization that have advanced the capitalist world-system consuming the South, the novel offers the material metaphor of inundation with…
An ‘international author, but in a different sense’
J.M. Coetzee has unquestionably achieved the status of ‘international author’ within dominant conceptions of world literature: his works circulate widely in both English and translation and have been legitimated by the principal arbitrators of the global cultural industry. He has, however, recently positioned himself as ‘an international author, but in a different sense’; that is, as a writer whose internationalism is achieved through his locatio…
Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean
Les essais critiques réunis dans ce volume prennent leur ancrage dans l’océan Indien et explorent les multiples façons dont la dynamique des échanges a formé cette région multilingue, de l’Inde aux Mascareignes et au sud de l’Afrique. Frontières, bords et tiers espaces sont revisités à travers la notion d’écotone, une zone de transition entre deux écosystèmes. Si le terme a été surtout utilisé par les biologistes et les écologistes, l’angle métap…
The Oceanic South
This essay proposes the category of the oceanic South. It presents the Southern Hemisphere’s blue expanses as one of its defining features and elaborates from this a framework that brings into agitated contention the extractive economies of the North, the persistent legacies of settler colonialism in the South, and other interlocking human and more-than-human itineraries. Tracking a drift into the Southern Ocean in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, t…
You’ll never forget what your camera remembers”
Capital Art Studio is the oldest photographic studio in Zanzibar today, and is unique in having survived the revolution of 1964. This essay reflects on the practices of remembrance performed by father and son, Ranchhod and Rohit Oza, in the studio since its inception in 1930. It does so by attending to the double nature of the photograph—simultaneously “two-dimensional image” and “three-dimensional thing”—and its paradoxical inscription of the ch…
Searching for stoke in Indian Ocean surf zones
This article takes up the idea of Indian Ocean 'natural logics' while shifting attention from 'cultures of trade' to leisure culture, and from monsoon winds to waves. Surfers who ride these bands of moving energy describe the experience as one of being 'stoked', and the search for stoke has over the past century propelled them around the world ocean in pursuit of the perfect wave. Focusing on the Indian Ocean arena, the article traces three disti…
African textualities
The enquiries in this two-part special issue spool out from a set of shared questions: What are the conditions, circuits and forms through which African texts and subjects travel? How do theories
Rendering the Cape-as-Port
This article charts the tropes through which the Cape-as-port is rendered across five and a half centuries: Sea-Mountain, Cape of Storms and Cape of Good Hope. These tropes coalesce and draw apart in the monstrous manifestation of the promontory and its tempests that takes the shape of the epic figure of Adamastor. They are found to encode an ambivalent orientation between African and maritime, and Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, and are sugges…
Producing a World of Remains in Indian Ocean Africa
This article reads a photographic studio and the visual archive compiled therein of the stone town of Zanzibar City. Capital Art Studio is analysed as negotiating the fraught interface between the Indian Ocean world and continental Africa in both the 1950s and again after the revolution in nationalist and neoliberal eras. The article explores the ways in which the studio produces discrepant temporalities to both the heritage industry currently re…
Richard Rive
The subtitle to this study – “A partial biography” – gives it a unique and evocative inflection: it explicitly does not aspire to the “full picture” but instead engages with its subject – Richard R
Yvette Christiansë's Oceanic Genealogies and the Colonial Archive
This article traces tropes of dispersal and continuity in Yvette Christiansë oeuvre as it performs a genealogical enquiry through oceanic spaces and in and out of the colonial archive. Revolving respectively around St Helena and the Cape, both the poetry collection Castaway and the novel Unconfessed feature characters displaced from the eastern African region through the slave trade, whereas Imprehendora presents “liberated Africans” in both the …
(Un)Lawful Subjects of Company
This essay engages Cape Town – a city founded as a tavern of the seas linking Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade routes – by tracing the ways in which its foundation as seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company settlement resonates as metaphor through which to approach the contemporary corporate city. Rereading the Journal of Jan van Riebeeck through the lens of Ishtiyaq Shukri's The Silent Minaret and, particularly, Dan Sleigh's Islands, it expl…
Re-telling freedom inOtelo Burning
The feature film Otelo Burning (2011) tells the story of black youth ‘tasting freedom’ by surfing waves in late apartheid South Africa and reflects on the emergence of a new national order by drawing Nelson Mandela’s release from prison into its plot. This article situates the film in a genealogy of black-centred representations of Durban beach - including Peter Abrahams’s memoir Tell Freedom (1954), Drum photographer Bob Gosani’s framing of Doll…
Interview with Sara Blecher and Sihle Xaba
Meg Samuelson (MS): Where does the story of Otelo Burning begin?Sihle Xaba (SX): I met Sara on the beach in Durban. I was one of the first [black] bodyboarders riding waves as well as any other p
Textual Subjects in Motion
This article traces an epistolary exchange between South Africa and India that was animated by the circulation of print media and literary texts. The exchange – between the South African archivist, poet and social historian MK Jeffreys and the Indian statesmen and scholars VS Srinivasa Sastri and P Kodanda Rao – is read as forming part of a larger web of personal and political relations and textual traffic that contributed to the production of In…
Crossing the Indian Ocean and wading through the littoral
This article traces the cosmopolitan structures Amitav Ghosh retrieves from the medieval Indian Ocean world and those he forges along the South Asian littoral in an era of climate change in the narrative works In an Antique Land and The Hungry Tide. Both turn to the Indian Ocean and its coastal delta in search of the permeability that characterises the littoral and the syncretic and/or dialogic cultural and life forms emerging along it, which sta…
Abdulrazak Gurnah's fictions of the Swahili coast
Michael Pearson has remarked that a “history of the ocean needs to be amphibious, moving easily between land and sea.” This article takes up his challenge within the field of literary studies, while drawing also on his notion of “littoral society,” as it engages what it describes as an amphibian aesthetic in the oeuvre of the Zanzibari-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. It argues that the oeuvre inscribes the layered and ambivalent histories of …
Reading Zoë Wicomb's Cosmopolitan, Domestic and Recursive Settings
To read Zoë Wicomb is to engage simultaneously with a ‘citizen of the world’ and a ‘provincial writer’. Moving between cosmopolitan and domestic settings, or setting in motion recursive structures that enfold the cosmos in the domestic and the domestic in the cosmos, Wicomb takes up the retelling of Cape hi/stories and cosmopolitan visions, presenting us with “another story” of what it might mean to be simultaneously local and worldly. Saturated …
Orienting the Cape
This article engages the archive of M.K. Jeffreys with a focus on her writing of Islam in the Cape. It explores the ways in which this body of work is shaped by Orientalist desire while simultaneously counteracting Orientalist impulses. A complicated nexus of identification, disavowal, incorporation and othering is surfaced in which Jeffreys negotiates competing desires for authority and absorption, simultaneously orienting the Cape towards Mecca…
Locations and locutions
Scripting Connections
Oceanic Histories and Protean Poetics
This article offers a close reading of the sea – as trope, archive, and living presence – in Wicomb's oeuvre. Charting the undercurrents of meaning rippling across Wicomb's texts, it finds in the sea an emblem of Wicomb's aesthetic and ethical concerns. The sea is shown to house an archive that challenges nationalist histories and unsettles their temporal divisions, throwing textual meaning and identities into flux. It summons readers to recognis…
(Un)settled states
A number of post‐apartheid literary works revisit nineteenth‐ to early twentieth‐century Indian Ocean passages. Bringing into visibility South Africa’s other ocean – until recently largely occluded by the conceptual bedazzlement of the black Atlantic – they unsettle some of the paradigms through which it has been imagined. This article explores five such novels, which articulate or critique various citizenship claims through a poetics of (un)sett…
‘Lose Your Mother, Kill Your Child’
Re-imagining South Africa via a Passage to India
Archivist, essayist and poet, M.K. Jeffreys produced an evocative archive on the Cape's location and functioning within the Indian Ocean world. This article traces the passages by way of which this archive was produced and explores the implications of this archive for our present. It shows how Jeffreys's epistolary relationship with the first Indian Agent to South Africa, Srinivasa Sastri, led to re-conceptualisations of her subjectivity as a whi…
Abdulrazak Gurnah's fictions of the Swahili coast
Michael Pearson has remarked that a “history of the ocean needs to be amphibious, moving easily between land and sea.” This article takes up his challenge within the field of literary studies, while drawing also on his notion of “littoral society,” as it engages what it describes as an amphibian aesthetic in the oeuvre of the Zanzibari-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. It argues that the oeuvre inscribes the layered and ambivalent histories of …
The city beyond the border
The urban worlds of Sello Duiker, Phaswane Mpe and Yvonne Vera are ones in which a range of physical and conceptual borders are explosively visible yet rendered permeable. Focusing on fiction by these three recently deceased novelists, and tracing their urban worlds back to Drum magazine's inscriptions of the city in the 1950s, this article explores the emergence of an urban imagination that writes itself out of the binary structures characterizi…
Rendering the Cape-as-Port
This article charts the tropes through which the Cape-as-port is rendered across five and a half centuries: Sea-Mountain, Cape of Storms and Cape of Good Hope. These tropes coalesce and draw apart in the monstrous manifestation of the promontory and its tempests that takes the shape of the epic figure of Adamastor. They are found to encode an ambivalent orientation between African and maritime, and Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, and are sugges…
(Un)settled states
A number of post‐apartheid literary works revisit nineteenth‐ to early twentieth‐century Indian Ocean passages. Bringing into visibility South Africa’s other ocean – until recently largely occluded by the conceptual bedazzlement of the black Atlantic – they unsettle some of the paradigms through which it has been imagined. This article explores five such novels, which articulate or critique various citizenship claims through a poetics of (un)sett…
Yvonne Vera's Bulawayo
This article explores the production and performance of urban modern subjectivity in Vera’s Bulawayo, as represented in her two final novels, Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins. The modern subject emerges from these fictions as an inherently restless one: railing against colonial containment and articulating its desire for an elsewhere, it finds expression in Vera’s privileged tropes of music and trains; both traveling tropes, music and trai…
The Disfigured Body of the Female Guerrilla
An ‘international author, but in a different sense’
J.M. Coetzee has unquestionably achieved the status of ‘international author’ within dominant conceptions of world literature: his works circulate widely in both English and translation and have been legitimated by the principal arbitrators of the global cultural industry. He has, however, recently positioned himself as ‘an international author, but in a different sense’; that is, as a writer whose internationalism is achieved through his locatio…
Borders and Ecotones in the Indian Ocean
Les essais critiques réunis dans ce volume prennent leur ancrage dans l’océan Indien et explorent les multiples façons dont la dynamique des échanges a formé cette région multilingue, de l’Inde aux Mascareignes et au sud de l’Afrique. Frontières, bords et tiers espaces sont revisités à travers la notion d’écotone, une zone de transition entre deux écosystèmes. Si le terme a été surtout utilisé par les biologistes et les écologistes, l’angle métap…
Producing a World of Remains in Indian Ocean Africa
This article reads a photographic studio and the visual archive compiled therein of the stone town of Zanzibar City. Capital Art Studio is analysed as negotiating the fraught interface between the Indian Ocean world and continental Africa in both the 1950s and again after the revolution in nationalist and neoliberal eras. The article explores the ways in which the studio produces discrepant temporalities to both the heritage industry currently re…
Orienting the Cape
This article engages the archive of M.K. Jeffreys with a focus on her writing of Islam in the Cape. It explores the ways in which this body of work is shaped by Orientalist desire while simultaneously counteracting Orientalist impulses. A complicated nexus of identification, disavowal, incorporation and othering is surfaced in which Jeffreys negotiates competing desires for authority and absorption, simultaneously orienting the Cape towards Mecca…
Locations and locutions
Oceanic Histories and Protean Poetics
This article offers a close reading of the sea – as trope, archive, and living presence – in Wicomb's oeuvre. Charting the undercurrents of meaning rippling across Wicomb's texts, it finds in the sea an emblem of Wicomb's aesthetic and ethical concerns. The sea is shown to house an archive that challenges nationalist histories and unsettles their temporal divisions, throwing textual meaning and identities into flux. It summons readers to recognis…
African textualities
The enquiries in this two-part special issue spool out from a set of shared questions: What are the conditions, circuits and forms through which African texts and subjects travel? How do theories
Re-imagining South Africa via a Passage to India
Archivist, essayist and poet, M.K. Jeffreys produced an evocative archive on the Cape's location and functioning within the Indian Ocean world. This article traces the passages by way of which this archive was produced and explores the implications of this archive for our present. It shows how Jeffreys's epistolary relationship with the first Indian Agent to South Africa, Srinivasa Sastri, led to re-conceptualisations of her subjectivity as a whi…
Cracked vases and untidy seams
The TRC reveals a tension between a desire to open up the story of the past and to “close the chapter on our past”. I explore this tension by considering both the TRC's relation to closure and those of selected fictional narratives that explicitly respond to the TRC. I argue that the tidy closure of reconciliation both excludes the traumatic traces of “deep memory” and fails to account for the presence of the past in the present. Focusing on form…
"Denying the Coloured Mother"
Sala Kahle, Yvonne Vera
Re-imagining South Africa via a Passage to India
Archivist, essayist and poet, M.K. Jeffreys produced an evocative archive on the Cape's location and functioning within the Indian Ocean world. This article traces the passages by way of which this archive was produced and explores the implications of this archive for our present. It shows how Jeffreys's epistolary relationship with the first Indian Agent to South Africa, Srinivasa Sastri, led to re-conceptualisations of her subjectivity as a whi…
Yvonne Vera's Bulawayo
This article explores the production and performance of urban modern subjectivity in Vera’s Bulawayo, as represented in her two final novels, Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins. The modern subject emerges from these fictions as an inherently restless one: railing against colonial containment and articulating its desire for an elsewhere, it finds expression in Vera’s privileged tropes of music and trains; both traveling tropes, music and trai…
The city beyond the border
The urban worlds of Sello Duiker, Phaswane Mpe and Yvonne Vera are ones in which a range of physical and conceptual borders are explosively visible yet rendered permeable. Focusing on fiction by these three recently deceased novelists, and tracing their urban worlds back to Drum magazine's inscriptions of the city in the 1950s, this article explores the emergence of an urban imagination that writes itself out of the binary structures characterizi…
The Disfigured Body of the Female Guerrilla
‘Lose Your Mother, Kill Your Child’
Scripting Connections
Oceanic Histories and Protean Poetics
This article offers a close reading of the sea – as trope, archive, and living presence – in Wicomb's oeuvre. Charting the undercurrents of meaning rippling across Wicomb's texts, it finds in the sea an emblem of Wicomb's aesthetic and ethical concerns. The sea is shown to house an archive that challenges nationalist histories and unsettles their temporal divisions, throwing textual meaning and identities into flux. It summons readers to recognis…
(Un)settled states
A number of post‐apartheid literary works revisit nineteenth‐ to early twentieth‐century Indian Ocean passages. Bringing into visibility South Africa’s other ocean – until recently largely occluded by the conceptual bedazzlement of the black Atlantic – they unsettle some of the paradigms through which it has been imagined. This article explores five such novels, which articulate or critique various citizenship claims through a poetics of (un)sett…
Reading Zoë Wicomb's Cosmopolitan, Domestic and Recursive Settings
To read Zoë Wicomb is to engage simultaneously with a ‘citizen of the world’ and a ‘provincial writer’. Moving between cosmopolitan and domestic settings, or setting in motion recursive structures that enfold the cosmos in the domestic and the domestic in the cosmos, Wicomb takes up the retelling of Cape hi/stories and cosmopolitan visions, presenting us with “another story” of what it might mean to be simultaneously local and worldly. Saturated …
Orienting the Cape
This article engages the archive of M.K. Jeffreys with a focus on her writing of Islam in the Cape. It explores the ways in which this body of work is shaped by Orientalist desire while simultaneously counteracting Orientalist impulses. A complicated nexus of identification, disavowal, incorporation and othering is surfaced in which Jeffreys negotiates competing desires for authority and absorption, simultaneously orienting the Cape towards Mecca…
Locations and locutions
Textual Subjects in Motion
This article traces an epistolary exchange between South Africa and India that was animated by the circulation of print media and literary texts. The exchange – between the South African archivist, poet and social historian MK Jeffreys and the Indian statesmen and scholars VS Srinivasa Sastri and P Kodanda Rao – is read as forming part of a larger web of personal and political relations and textual traffic that contributed to the production of In…
Crossing the Indian Ocean and wading through the littoral
This article traces the cosmopolitan structures Amitav Ghosh retrieves from the medieval Indian Ocean world and those he forges along the South Asian littoral in an era of climate change in the narrative works In an Antique Land and The Hungry Tide. Both turn to the Indian Ocean and its coastal delta in search of the permeability that characterises the littoral and the syncretic and/or dialogic cultural and life forms emerging along it, which sta…
Abdulrazak Gurnah's fictions of the Swahili coast
Michael Pearson has remarked that a “history of the ocean needs to be amphibious, moving easily between land and sea.” This article takes up his challenge within the field of literary studies, while drawing also on his notion of “littoral society,” as it engages what it describes as an amphibian aesthetic in the oeuvre of the Zanzibari-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. It argues that the oeuvre inscribes the layered and ambivalent histories of …
Yvette Christiansë's Oceanic Genealogies and the Colonial Archive
This article traces tropes of dispersal and continuity in Yvette Christiansë oeuvre as it performs a genealogical enquiry through oceanic spaces and in and out of the colonial archive. Revolving respectively around St Helena and the Cape, both the poetry collection Castaway and the novel Unconfessed feature characters displaced from the eastern African region through the slave trade, whereas Imprehendora presents “liberated Africans” in both the …
(Un)Lawful Subjects of Company
This essay engages Cape Town – a city founded as a tavern of the seas linking Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade routes – by tracing the ways in which its foundation as seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company settlement resonates as metaphor through which to approach the contemporary corporate city. Rereading the Journal of Jan van Riebeeck through the lens of Ishtiyaq Shukri's The Silent Minaret and, particularly, Dan Sleigh's Islands, it expl…
Re-telling freedom inOtelo Burning
The feature film Otelo Burning (2011) tells the story of black youth ‘tasting freedom’ by surfing waves in late apartheid South Africa and reflects on the emergence of a new national order by drawing Nelson Mandela’s release from prison into its plot. This article situates the film in a genealogy of black-centred representations of Durban beach - including Peter Abrahams’s memoir Tell Freedom (1954), Drum photographer Bob Gosani’s framing of Doll…
Interview with Sara Blecher and Sihle Xaba
Meg Samuelson (MS): Where does the story of Otelo Burning begin?Sihle Xaba (SX): I met Sara on the beach in Durban. I was one of the first [black] bodyboarders riding waves as well as any other p
Richard Rive
The subtitle to this study – “A partial biography” – gives it a unique and evocative inflection: it explicitly does not aspire to the “full picture” but instead engages with its subject – Richard R
Rendering the Cape-as-Port
This article charts the tropes through which the Cape-as-port is rendered across five and a half centuries: Sea-Mountain, Cape of Storms and Cape of Good Hope. These tropes coalesce and draw apart in the monstrous manifestation of the promontory and its tempests that takes the shape of the epic figure of Adamastor. They are found to encode an ambivalent orientation between African and maritime, and Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, and are sugges…
Producing a World of Remains in Indian Ocean Africa
This article reads a photographic studio and the visual archive compiled therein of the stone town of Zanzibar City. Capital Art Studio is analysed as negotiating the fraught interface between the Indian Ocean world and continental Africa in both the 1950s and again after the revolution in nationalist and neoliberal eras. The article explores the ways in which the studio produces discrepant temporalities to both the heritage industry currently re…
Searching for stoke in Indian Ocean surf zones
This article takes up the idea of Indian Ocean 'natural logics' while shifting attention from 'cultures of trade' to leisure culture, and from monsoon winds to waves. Surfers who ride these bands of moving energy describe the experience as one of being 'stoked', and the search for stoke has over the past century propelled them around the world ocean in pursuit of the perfect wave. Focusing on the Indian Ocean arena, the article traces three disti…
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