-
Exploring Nelson Mandela’s Evolving Authority Through His Writings
Nelson Mandela’s place in South African public life has been shaped through the circulation of his writing and through the political work that writing was asked to perform. From the outset, his texts operated within a public sphere already primed to read him as a representative figure. This context shaped both how the writing functioned… →
-
How Things Fall Apart from Fear: A Short Study of Okonkwo
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is often approached as a novel about collapse: the collapse of a society under colonial pressure and the collapse of a man not surviving the force of unwanted and imposed change. Yet long before the arrival of missionaries and administrators, the novel is already attentive to arguably quieter intimate pressures.… →
-
The Narrator and Mustafa Sa’eed in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North is a fine-tuned web of a novel that ends with the unnamed narrator wading into the nearby water of the river Nile →
-
13 South African Personal Finance Books
Popular get-rich books like Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad and Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money often provide advice that does not reflect the intricacies of the South African present. →
-
The Clarion Call: How South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Represents Change
The EFF’s aesthetic is always brought back to revolutionary images in part because they work so hard to remind South Africans of the change they possess. →
-
Psychological Horror and the Creation of Unknown Entities
An impossible exorcism of Lovecraft from the genre might just be the only call for action I can make. Or at least a re-look at his influence to better understand the limits set where one cannot see beyond him. →
-
Guy Butler on English in South African Literature
Frederick Guy Butler was born in Cradock, in the Eastern Cape, on the 21st of January 1918. He moved to Grahamstown (now Makhanda) to study at Rhodes University, where he completed his Master of Arts degree in 1938. At Rhodes, Butler began cultivating his talents as a poet, writer and academic. He married his wife… →
-
Seeing a Brave New World: My Favourite Aldous Huxley Book
While critics, fans, and narcissistic teens tend to flock toward Brave New World, I flock to The Art of Seeing in my eternal attempt to be unique. →
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
Kris Van der Bijl 