Ashraf Jamal

Ashraf Jamal

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Ashraf Jamal


Ashraf Jamal teaches Art History & Visual Culture at Rhodes University. An interdisciplinarian whose primary interests include philosophy and literary and maritime studies, he is coauthor of Art in South Africa: The Future Present (1996); author of Predicaments of culture in South Africa (2005); and coeditor of Indian Ocean Studies: Social, Cultural & Political Perspectives (2010). He has also written and directed plays, a novel (Love themes for the wilderness, 1996), and short stories, including “The Shades,” winner of the Sanlam Prize (2002).