SLiPStellenbosch Literary Project Reviews
Tag Archives: race
Hagen Engler: rendering whiteness visible
Are you in a state of racist rehab? Read Pieter Odendaal’s review of Hagen Engler’s ‘Marrying black girls for guys who aren’t black’ to find out.
Tagged FHM, Hagen Engler, race, rehab, whiteness
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Redemption too easy for ‘The Blacks of Cape Town’?
Does the South African desire for a redemptive narrative elide the complexities of our stories? Reviewer Megan Jones identifies several key questions raised by CA Davids’s ‘The Blacks of Cape Town’.
Tagged blackness, creolisation, history, identity, race, transatlantic
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A book in search of an audience
Kavish Chetty, reviewing A Bantu in my Bathroom, struggles to come to terms with the split he perceives in Eusebius McKaiser’s radio and literary personalities.
Shakespeare and the politics of identity in South Africa
Chris Thurman reviews Natasha Distiller’s Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On Post-Apartheid South African Culture, and concludes that this is a book that can and should inform all those who engage with Shakespeare’s work in South Africa.
Tagged Post-Apartheid, race, Shakespeare, Thabo Mbeki, theatre
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