Louise Bethlehem
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 637487 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Louise Bethlehem |
| PRENOMES | Louise |
| SOBRENOME | Bethlehem |
| ASSINATURA | BETHLEHEM L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2567-0134 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Organic futurism
Between emptiness and superfluity
Documentary photography has undergone a process of devaluation in post-apartheid South Africa. In response, Patricia Hayes has introduced the term “empty photographs” into the scholarly conversation, using it to designate images that have been derided as “‘bad,’ ‘boring,’ or repetitious” in post-apartheid settings (“The Uneven Citizenry,” 189). This article revisits a subset of such images to contest their seeming emptiness—pallbearers escorting …
Hydrocolonial Johannesburg
Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr's anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths that have shaped influential recent accounts of the city? This article outlines the contours of a “hyd…
Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Movement
This special issue proposes to juxtapose accounts of anti-apartheid protest and solidarity efforts with the field of celebrity studies in order to deepen our understanding of both through their conjunction. As our contributors show, opponents of apartheid in South Africa and beyond were cognisant of the importance of cultivating ties with local and global media, as well as with individuals who enjoyed easy access to the media as a consequence of …
Cultural solidarities
Continuing the investigation of networked cultural responses in the Global South construed as “cultural solidarities” that was embarked upon in the first special issue of this two-part series, “Cultural Solidarities: Apartheid and the anti-colonial commons of world literature,” Safundi Vol. 19, no.3, the introduction to this, its second volume, investigates how the cultural imagination animates transnational solidarities across a variety of media…
Stenographic fictions
From the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of representation open Benson’s text to what Paul Gready, following Foucault, has analyzed as the state’s “power of …
South African text; Zionist palimpsest
The contemporary mobilization of the apartheid-Israel analogy on the part of activists and academics alike obscures the fact that it has a long history of use on the part of Hebrew-speaking writers and intellectuals. Some of the earliest comparative references to apartheid arose from the Hebrew translation and stage adaptation of Alan Paton’s celebrated 1948 novel Cry, the Beloved Country. Departing from the performative focus of Eitan Bar-Yosef …
Cultural solidarities
STOPS."Our claims across this series of interventions center on the contention that the conflictual experiences of decolonization in the mid-twentieth-century were to an exceptional extent addressed within a transnational cultural domain-one that to no small degree crosses contemporary debates on world literature. 1 While the global resonance of anti-apartheid expressive culture presents a paradigmatic example of this dynamic, we argue that the m…
Cultural solidarities
This special issue considers networked cultural responses loosely figured as “cultural solidarities” in the Global South, on the understanding that mid-twentieth century struggles to end colonialism were addressed within a transnational domain. It takes apartheid South Africa as its point of departure, positioning literature from South Africa within a broadly anti-colonial commons. As they consider works by Alex La Guma, Nazim Hikmet Ran, Athol F…
Restless Itineraries
This article sets the itineracy of antiapartheid expressive culture to work in relation to exiled South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba. It revisits accounts of transnational cultural circulation on the part of Rob Nixon, Paul Gilroy, and others to argue that the diffusion of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers historiographic traction over other Cold War settings. Throughout the international antiapartheid strugg…
Miriam's Place
Michael Titlestad has suggested that jazz serves “to mediate, manage and contest” what he terms a “staggered, but also cruel and unusual South African modernity.” His volume Making the Changes (2004) uses the “pedestrian” as a chronotope to describe the “local peripatetic appropriations of global symbolic possibilities” that jazz affords there. This paper proposes a different “chronotope”: that of the train. This substitution facilitates the read…
Scratching the surface
This paper deploys the haptic, and more broadly speaking, notions of multisensory reading and spectatorship to reconfigure perceptions of home. It explores configurations of home in the practice of the late French-Israeli visual artist, Absalon, to draw tropes of “complicity” and “contagion” into an intersection with discourses of moral hygiene arising from the modernist preoccupation with denuded surface in the history of architecture. It then g…
Lauren Beukes's post-apartheid dystopia
This article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008), set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”, asking how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South African city. The article charts Beukes’s resolutely mobile characters as they negotiate the spatia…
The Long-Distance South African
Stephen Clingman’s “Looking from South Africa to the World: A Story of Identity for our Times” begins by charting a journey across Johannesburg in the company of George Bizos who, together with Bra
Unruly pedagogies; migratory interventions
This special edition of Critical Arts arose from the interchange between affect and institution. We wagered that Mieke Bal's (2007a: 23) notion of a 'migratory aesthetics' might be a productive way of revisiting the cultural studies classroom as a site of 'sentient engagement' across disciplinary and other boundary lines. For Bal, sentient engagement, along its embodied and affective dimensions, is the constitutive condition of the aesthetic, sin…
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
Park pictures
This article investigates the cultural economy of an inner-city Johannesburg park through tracking the work of itinerant photographers who operate there. The authors revisit Johannesburg artist Terry Kurgan's interactions with the photographers of Joubert Park in order to raise questions relating to their material and symbolic – or ‘immaterial’ – labour. They point to the mnemonic or archival dimensions of this labour and investigate the visual i…
Occasion for reflection
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouise Bethlehem English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Skin Tight
Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath traces the responses to the emergent paradigm of South African literary studies from the 1970s onwards. Embedded in the influential critical texts of the field, it claims, are hidden narratives - of land, race, gender, desire and embodiment. This volume explores these submerged dimension's of South African literary history and the influence they continue to exert well into the post-aparthei…
Materiality and the madness of reading
Unlike the “situationsl metafiction” (Attwell 1993: 20) of J.M. Coetzee's earlier novels, whose imbrication in the political matrix of the late‐apartheid State has become a matter of critical orthodoxy, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) rejects a South African emplacement for its writer‐protagonist and hereby seems to suspend questions relating to the positioning of this work within post‐apartheid literary culture. Coetzee's privileging of…
South Africa in the Global Imaginary
This award-winning collection of essays about culture and identity was written from the perspective of post-apartheid South Africa. Voted best special issue of 2001 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journal.
Membership, dismemberment and the boundaries of the nation - Manfred Nathan'sSarie Marais
Aneconomy in an economy of melancholy
Pliant/compliant; Grace/ Disgrace; Plaint/complaint
We are reminded of a complaint widely associated with the work of Coetzee in his more allegorical phase, a kind of de-referential slipperiness which, said Coetzee's detractors (and they were many), amounted to a `studied refusal to accept historical responsibility
Two vignettes and a body
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouise BethlehemLouise Betlehem is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Tel Aviv University, Israel, where she obtained her doctorate on South African literary historiography under apartheid. She currently teaches in the departments of English and Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests in postcolonial theory reflect the spatial, poli…
Restless Itineraries
This article sets the itineracy of antiapartheid expressive culture to work in relation to exiled South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba. It revisits accounts of transnational cultural circulation on the part of Rob Nixon, Paul Gilroy, and others to argue that the diffusion of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers historiographic traction over other Cold War settings. Throughout the international antiapartheid strugg…
Miriam's Place
Michael Titlestad has suggested that jazz serves “to mediate, manage and contest” what he terms a “staggered, but also cruel and unusual South African modernity.” His volume Making the Changes (2004) uses the “pedestrian” as a chronotope to describe the “local peripatetic appropriations of global symbolic possibilities” that jazz affords there. This paper proposes a different “chronotope”: that of the train. This substitution facilitates the read…
Lauren Beukes's post-apartheid dystopia
This article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008), set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”, asking how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South African city. The article charts Beukes’s resolutely mobile characters as they negotiate the spatia…
A Primary Need as Strong as Hunger
Under apartheid, discussions of literary function and value in South African literature in English are refracted through an elaborate rhetoric that posits "urgency" as the necessary correlative and consequence of political commitment. My essay examines this "rhetoric of urgency"in the context of the overwhelmingly realist dominant of South African literary culture in English. I suggest that South African literary critics of both liberal and radic…
Cultural solidarities
This special issue considers networked cultural responses loosely figured as “cultural solidarities” in the Global South, on the understanding that mid-twentieth century struggles to end colonialism were addressed within a transnational domain. It takes apartheid South Africa as its point of departure, positioning literature from South Africa within a broadly anti-colonial commons. As they consider works by Alex La Guma, Nazim Hikmet Ran, Athol F…
Scratching the surface
This paper deploys the haptic, and more broadly speaking, notions of multisensory reading and spectatorship to reconfigure perceptions of home. It explores configurations of home in the practice of the late French-Israeli visual artist, Absalon, to draw tropes of “complicity” and “contagion” into an intersection with discourses of moral hygiene arising from the modernist preoccupation with denuded surface in the history of architecture. It then g…
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
Cultural solidarities
Continuing the investigation of networked cultural responses in the Global South construed as “cultural solidarities” that was embarked upon in the first special issue of this two-part series, “Cultural Solidarities: Apartheid and the anti-colonial commons of world literature,” Safundi Vol. 19, no.3, the introduction to this, its second volume, investigates how the cultural imagination animates transnational solidarities across a variety of media…
Simile and Figurative Language
Stenographic fictions
From the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of representation open Benson’s text to what Paul Gready, following Foucault, has analyzed as the state’s “power of …
White Writing
Between emptiness and superfluity
Documentary photography has undergone a process of devaluation in post-apartheid South Africa. In response, Patricia Hayes has introduced the term “empty photographs” into the scholarly conversation, using it to designate images that have been derided as “‘bad,’ ‘boring,’ or repetitious” in post-apartheid settings (“The Uneven Citizenry,” 189). This article revisits a subset of such images to contest their seeming emptiness—pallbearers escorting …
Celebrity and Protest in the Anti-Apartheid Movement
This special issue proposes to juxtapose accounts of anti-apartheid protest and solidarity efforts with the field of celebrity studies in order to deepen our understanding of both through their conjunction. As our contributors show, opponents of apartheid in South Africa and beyond were cognisant of the importance of cultivating ties with local and global media, as well as with individuals who enjoyed easy access to the media as a consequence of …
South African text; Zionist palimpsest
The contemporary mobilization of the apartheid-Israel analogy on the part of activists and academics alike obscures the fact that it has a long history of use on the part of Hebrew-speaking writers and intellectuals. Some of the earliest comparative references to apartheid arose from the Hebrew translation and stage adaptation of Alan Paton’s celebrated 1948 novel Cry, the Beloved Country. Departing from the performative focus of Eitan Bar-Yosef …
Unruly pedagogies; migratory interventions
This special edition of Critical Arts arose from the interchange between affect and institution. We wagered that Mieke Bal's (2007a: 23) notion of a 'migratory aesthetics' might be a productive way of revisiting the cultural studies classroom as a site of 'sentient engagement' across disciplinary and other boundary lines. For Bal, sentient engagement, along its embodied and affective dimensions, is the constitutive condition of the aesthetic, sin…
Park pictures
This article investigates the cultural economy of an inner-city Johannesburg park through tracking the work of itinerant photographers who operate there. The authors revisit Johannesburg artist Terry Kurgan's interactions with the photographers of Joubert Park in order to raise questions relating to their material and symbolic – or ‘immaterial’ – labour. They point to the mnemonic or archival dimensions of this labour and investigate the visual i…
Aneconomy in an economy of melancholy
Pliant/compliant; Grace/ Disgrace; Plaint/complaint
We are reminded of a complaint widely associated with the work of Coetzee in his more allegorical phase, a kind of de-referential slipperiness which, said Coetzee's detractors (and they were many), amounted to a `studied refusal to accept historical responsibility
Two vignettes and a body
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouise BethlehemLouise Betlehem is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Tel Aviv University, Israel, where she obtained her doctorate on South African literary historiography under apartheid. She currently teaches in the departments of English and Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests in postcolonial theory reflect the spatial, poli…
Charming the hide off the elephant
White Writing
In/articulation
(1993). In/articulation: Polysystem theory, postcolonial discourse theory, and South African literary historiography. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 25-43
Simile and Figurative Language
Charming the hide off the elephant
Strange Loops and Writes-of-Passage
Research Article| January 01 1999 Strange Loops and Writes-of-Passage: Double-Crossing Diaspora Louise Shabat Bethlehem Louise Shabat Bethlehem Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (1-2): 255–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-1/2-255 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Louise Shabat Bethlehem; Strange Loops and Writes-of-P…
A Primary Need as Strong as Hunger
Under apartheid, discussions of literary function and value in South African literature in English are refracted through an elaborate rhetoric that posits "urgency" as the necessary correlative and consequence of political commitment. My essay examines this "rhetoric of urgency"in the context of the overwhelmingly realist dominant of South African literary culture in English. I suggest that South African literary critics of both liberal and radic…
Pliant/compliant; Grace/ Disgrace; Plaint/complaint
We are reminded of a complaint widely associated with the work of Coetzee in his more allegorical phase, a kind of de-referential slipperiness which, said Coetzee's detractors (and they were many), amounted to a `studied refusal to accept historical responsibility
Two vignettes and a body
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouise BethlehemLouise Betlehem is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Tel Aviv University, Israel, where she obtained her doctorate on South African literary historiography under apartheid. She currently teaches in the departments of English and Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests in postcolonial theory reflect the spatial, poli…
Aneconomy in an economy of melancholy
South Africa in the Global Imaginary
This award-winning collection of essays about culture and identity was written from the perspective of post-apartheid South Africa. Voted best special issue of 2001 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journal.
Membership, dismemberment and the boundaries of the nation - Manfred Nathan'sSarie Marais
Materiality and the madness of reading
Unlike the “situationsl metafiction” (Attwell 1993: 20) of J.M. Coetzee's earlier novels, whose imbrication in the political matrix of the late‐apartheid State has become a matter of critical orthodoxy, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) rejects a South African emplacement for its writer‐protagonist and hereby seems to suspend questions relating to the positioning of this work within post‐apartheid literary culture. Coetzee's privileging of…
Skin Tight
Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath traces the responses to the emergent paradigm of South African literary studies from the 1970s onwards. Embedded in the influential critical texts of the field, it claims, are hidden narratives - of land, race, gender, desire and embodiment. This volume explores these submerged dimension's of South African literary history and the influence they continue to exert well into the post-aparthei…
Occasion for reflection
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLouise Bethlehem English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present - Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women - Pnina Werbner 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations - Beatrice Hibou 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory - Isaie Dougnon 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: lab…
Park pictures
This article investigates the cultural economy of an inner-city Johannesburg park through tracking the work of itinerant photographers who operate there. The authors revisit Johannesburg artist Terry Kurgan's interactions with the photographers of Joubert Park in order to raise questions relating to their material and symbolic – or ‘immaterial’ – labour. They point to the mnemonic or archival dimensions of this labour and investigate the visual i…
Unruly pedagogies; migratory interventions
This special edition of Critical Arts arose from the interchange between affect and institution. We wagered that Mieke Bal's (2007a: 23) notion of a 'migratory aesthetics' might be a productive way of revisiting the cultural studies classroom as a site of 'sentient engagement' across disciplinary and other boundary lines. For Bal, sentient engagement, along its embodied and affective dimensions, is the constitutive condition of the aesthetic, sin…
The Long-Distance South African
Stephen Clingman’s “Looking from South Africa to the World: A Story of Identity for our Times” begins by charting a journey across Johannesburg in the company of George Bizos who, together with Bra
Lauren Beukes's post-apartheid dystopia
This article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008), set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”, asking how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South African city. The article charts Beukes’s resolutely mobile characters as they negotiate the spatia…
Scratching the surface
This paper deploys the haptic, and more broadly speaking, notions of multisensory reading and spectatorship to reconfigure perceptions of home. It explores configurations of home in the practice of the late French-Israeli visual artist, Absalon, to draw tropes of “complicity” and “contagion” into an intersection with discourses of moral hygiene arising from the modernist preoccupation with denuded surface in the history of architecture. It then g…
Miriam's Place
Michael Titlestad has suggested that jazz serves “to mediate, manage and contest” what he terms a “staggered, but also cruel and unusual South African modernity.” His volume Making the Changes (2004) uses the “pedestrian” as a chronotope to describe the “local peripatetic appropriations of global symbolic possibilities” that jazz affords there. This paper proposes a different “chronotope”: that of the train. This substitution facilitates the read…
Cultural solidarities
STOPS."Our claims across this series of interventions center on the contention that the conflictual experiences of decolonization in the mid-twentieth-century were to an exceptional extent addressed within a transnational cultural domain-one that to no small degree crosses contemporary debates on world literature. 1 While the global resonance of anti-apartheid expressive culture presents a paradigmatic example of this dynamic, we argue that the m…
Cultural solidarities
This special issue considers networked cultural responses loosely figured as “cultural solidarities” in the Global South, on the understanding that mid-twentieth century struggles to end colonialism were addressed within a transnational domain. It takes apartheid South Africa as its point of departure, positioning literature from South Africa within a broadly anti-colonial commons. As they consider works by Alex La Guma, Nazim Hikmet Ran, Athol F…
Restless Itineraries
This article sets the itineracy of antiapartheid expressive culture to work in relation to exiled South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba. It revisits accounts of transnational cultural circulation on the part of Rob Nixon, Paul Gilroy, and others to argue that the diffusion of South African cultural formations outward from South Africa offers historiographic traction over other Cold War settings. Throughout the international antiapartheid strugg…
Cultural solidarities
Continuing the investigation of networked cultural responses in the Global South construed as “cultural solidarities” that was embarked upon in the first special issue of this two-part series, “Cultural Solidarities: Apartheid and the anti-colonial commons of world literature,” Safundi Vol. 19, no.3, the introduction to this, its second volume, investigates how the cultural imagination animates transnational solidarities across a variety of media…
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