scholarly journals Sisteemtendense in die Afrikaanse literatuur: ’n bestekopname van 1983

Literator ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
F. Galloway
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
National Party ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
African Community ◽  
The One ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Parliamentary Politics ◽  
Looking Back

A survey of the Afrikaans literary scene of 1983 might one day prove to be a survey of this literary system on the eve of a “new dispensation”. From the ranks of the Afrikaans literary establishment there was a resounding “Yes” to the 1983 referendum which effectively compartmented ‘culture’ to ‘own affairs'. In this time of political change and adjustment the role of the Afrikaans intellectual and writer within the South African community has once again become an urgent point of debate. From literary texts themselves, from established journals and ‘little magazines' there are clear indications that a reflection on ideology keeps recurring. There are also voices on the periphery of the literary system which demand attention - young black poets and dramatists have for some years been involved in enacting and reciting their Afrikaans works on the Cape Flats and in townships on the Rand. Looking back at the Afrikaans literary scene of 1983, and its relationship with the socio-political context, one is left with two main impressions. On the one hand the literary establishment has confirmed its faith in reform under the leadership of the National Party. On the other hand there are developments in extra-parliamentary politics and within the literary system itself which threatens the equilibrium. Which of these trends will be the decisive factor with regard to the literary dispensation must be awaited.

scholarly journals Retreatment tuberculosis in a South African community: the role of re-infection, HIV and antiretroviral treatment

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1510-1516 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Middelkoop ◽  
L-G. Bekker ◽  
E. Shashkina ◽  
B. Kreiswirth ◽  
R. Wood
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Antiretroviral Treatment ◽  
African Community

Socio-economic Aspects of Energy and Climate Change in South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 304-322
Author(s):  
Roula Inglesi-Lotz
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
The One

Appreciating energy and electricity as cornerstones of socio-economic growth and development, this chapter deals with a variety of concepts and factors to demonstrate the evolution of the role of energy in the South African economy and the population’s living standards. The chapter also discusses historically the various types of transition of the energy sector since the country’s first connection to electricity. The importance of energy as a factor of production and a medium of wealth is profound in the analysis. Also, the findings show that the transitions in the South African energy sector have gone through different natures: demographics of the users, sectoral transitions, regional ones until the one the sector has been undergoing since 2018 that combines a market transition (from monopolistic towards competitive environments) with a fuel transition (from a fossil-fuel-dominated system towards a cleaner, renewable mix).

The Resilient Constitution

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-309
Author(s):  
David Dyzenhaus ◽  
Alma Diamond
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Extreme Pressure ◽  
The Face ◽  
Justice Process ◽  
The One

This chapter evaluates the so called 'transitional constitution' of South Africa and the 'permanent constitution' of Colombia. Through a comparative approach, it contends that constitutions are better understood in terms of their resilience rather than either being transitional or permanent, and that a 'resilient constitution' is the one capable of springing back even after being subjected to extreme pressure, as long as leaders maintain their commitment to governing within the limits of the law. In this sense, the differences between the Colombian transitional justice and the South African case do not stem primarily from the 'permanence' of its Constitution, but rather from the difficulties and tensions inherent to any transitional justice process, because it derives from some of the very rights it is designed to promote. The chapter then details how the jurisprudence of the Colombian Constitutional Court on transitional matters can be understood as having moved from an understanding of the Constitution as permanent, to one of resilience that does not represent a new power grabbed by the Court. Rather than that, it signals an understanding of the role of the Court in maintaining a constitutional order even in the face of existential threats to it.

Language Pangs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilit Ferber
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Philosophical Text ◽  
Origin Of Language ◽  
Pain Expression ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Language and pain are usually thought of as opposites, the one being about expression and communication, the other destructive, “beyond words,” and isolating. Language Pangs challenges these familiar conceptions and offers a reconsideration of the relationship between pain and language in terms of an essential interconnectedness rather than an exclusive opposition. The book’s premise is that the experience of pain cannot be probed without consideration of its inherent relation to language, and vice versa: understanding the nature of language essentially depends on an account of its relationship with pain. Language Pangs brings together discussions of philosophical as well as literary texts, an intersection especially productive in considering the phenomenology of pain and its bearing on language. The book’s first chapter presents a phenomenology of pain and its relation to language. Chapters 2 and 3 provide a close reading of Herder’s Treatise on the Origin of Language (1772), which was the first modern philosophical text to bring together language and pain, establishing the cry of pain as the origin of language. Herder also raises important claims regarding the relationship between human and animal, sympathy, and the role of hearing in the experience of pain. Chapter 4 is devoted to Heidegger’s seminar (1939) on Herder’s text about language, a relatively unknown seminar that raises important claims regarding pain, expression, and hearing. Chapter 5 focuses on Sophocles’ story of Philoctetes, important to Herder’s treatise, in terms of pain, expression, sympathy, and hearing, also referring to more thinkers such as Cavell and Gide.

scholarly journals T.T. Cloete as literary critic, theorist and literary historian (Part 2): T.T. Cloete as theorist of literary history

Literator ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Van Coller
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Literary Work Of Art ◽  
The One ◽  
Literary System

It had already been stated that Siegfried Schmidt (in Hjort 1992) discerned four ‘roles’ within the Literary System, that of literary production, dissemination, reception and literary processing. According to this definition, T.T. Cloete, the well-known author and critic, had played all of these roles. In this second part of a two-part article the focus is on Cloete as a literary historian and in particular on his theoretical (methodological) perceptions pertaining to literary history. It is abundantly clear that in all of his different roles a historical awareness was always present. For Cloete the literary work of art was inbedded in a historical timeframe which imposed hermeneutical imperatives on the critic; on the other hand the literary work of art is present in the here and now and accessible to any skilled reader. One of the objectives of this study is to argue that there was thus an implied dichotomy in Cloete’s thinking on literary history. On the one hand there had been a relativistic view that positioned literary texts in the past, and on the other hand a normative view that implied that certain texts (due to inherent qualities like integration and complexity) could gain a certain permanence. In the last part of this article-true to the narrative approach, an implied confrontation with Cloete’s (methodological) views of literary history lead to a personal standpoint as a confrontation with the self (cf. Sools 2009:27). This explication of a personal view on the writing of a literary history (as an implied homage to Cloete) concluded the article.

Translation historiography in the Modern World

Target ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omid Azadibougar
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Main Engine ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Positive Force

Nearly all scholarly works about the encounter of Iran with European modernity emphasize the role of translation not only in introducing new literary forms into the Persian literary system, but also in becoming the main engine of change and modernization of the culture. This paper concerns itself with this constructivist narrative of the available historiographical discourse and the translational environment between 1851 and 1921 in Iran. After describing the field of translation in the period in question, I challenge the uncritical conception of translation as a positive force by, on the one hand, investigating hypothetical cultural and linguistic implications, and on the other hand, questioning the power of translation per se, as ascribed to it in the above mentioned historiographical discourse, in socio-cultural modernization. This will prioritize the individual and cultural translational effects over the supposed institutional ones.

scholarly journals Appeal to the Witness. The Role of Romanian Post-Communist Witness Literature in Outlining National (Self-)Images

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Laura Sasu
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Witness Literature ◽  
The One ◽  
Similarity And Difference ◽  
National Images

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify and investigate the role of Romanian post-communist witness literature for contemporary historiography in outlining national and social (self-)images. This type of literature, written mostly by former political detainees, is perceived by literary criticism as a specific borderline segment partly relevant as historical documents and partly as literary texts. Applying the conceptual pattern coined by Giorgio Agamben. in his analysis based upon the national socialist concentration camp, to post-communist depositional literature reveals two focal directions of imagological relevance: on the one hand, the points of similarity and difference of totalitarian practices in creating stereotypes, cultivating the sense of absolute antagonist otherness and promoting distorted ethnic, social and national images and. on the other hand, the particular contributions and limitations posed by the post-totalitarian depositional discourse in (re)-creating national and social (self-)images.

"You're only as healthy as you fell". Scrittura e interstestualitŕ in Taxi driver di Martin Scorsese

IKON ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 295-321
Author(s):  
Franco Lonati
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Journal Entries

- The goal of this paper is to analyse the famous Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1975) with an interdisciplinary approach and from a double perspective: on the one hand, it examines the narrator's forms of expression chiefly focusing on the written documents, the journal entries and the autobiographical references in the movie. I also consider the way the director uses these documents in order to trace the twisted psychology of the antihero Travis Bickle, the main character in the movie, played by Robert De Niro; on the other hand, this study investigates the film from an intertextual perspective, centering on how the filmic ‘text' uses the many other ‘texts' to which it constantly alludes: literary texts (among the others, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Thomas Wolfe's God's Lonely Man), cinematic texts (for instance, Orson Welles's Citizen Kane and John Ford's The Searchers), musical texts (songs by Kris Kristofferson and Jackson Browne), or, in some cases, even facts from real life (for example, the attempted assassinations of prominent politicians), not to mention the many autobiographical clues disseminated in the film by screenwriter Paul Schrader, director Martin Scorsese and even by Robert De Niro himself, through his peculiar performance. The result is a compound structured film which makes use of sophisticated narrative and expressive modes. A film not only inspired by its sources but also able, in its turn, to influence the work of other filmmakers and, paradoxically enough, even to affect real life: it's the case of John Hinckley jr who, obsessioned by Taxi Driver, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, who had played the role of an underage prostitute in the film. All these aspects, together with its unquestionable technical qualities, make Taxi Driver one of the most significant films of a golden age for American filmmaking.

scholarly journals METAMOTIVES OF POWERFUL DEATH IN PROSE OF GAYTO GAZDANOV

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-319
Author(s):  
E.E. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Violent Death ◽  
Altered State ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Moral Transformation ◽  
Altered State Of Consciousness ◽  
The One ◽  
The Buddha

The article analyzes the role of the metamotive of violent death in the poetry poetry of Gazdanov (The Return of the Buddha, The Phantom of Alexander Wolf, The Prisoner). In this case, the motive for the murder is considered in connection with the motive of sleep as a single semantic complex, reflecting the transgression of going beyond the limits of present reality. The Oneirotop in these works not only defines the modes of the impossible (such as the elimination of reality through the narration of the ghost in “Return of the Buddha” or irrealism in “The Ghost of Alexander Wolf”), but also conveys the immanent author’s strategy of “rebirth”. In this article, the gazdanov hero’s intention to gain selfhood is first described in terms of Gurdjieff’s ideas (“man-sleeping machine”, “pluralism of consciousness”, etc.). Gazdanov's literary texts correlate with the provisions of his teaching on the moral transformation of personality. Using traditional methods of continuous sampling, motivational and typological analysis, specific features of the metamotive of violent death were revealed by G. Gazdanov in intertextual coverage. The Gazdanov hero is represented in the anthropological paradigm of F. Schiller-A. Pushkin-F. Dostoevsky, on the one hand, on the other hand, defines his place in the romantic series of “extra people” coming from Adolf Constant. The altered state of consciousness in the form of a fight against sleep, which is observed in all texts and allows us to talk about the metatextuality of the topic of murder in the writer's work, is separately noted. Through the prism of the meta-motive of violent death, a new approach is proposed to understanding G. Gazdanov’s dominant discourse of mortality, which is presented as an intention to “awakening”. The experience of transition in the context of the phantom and likeness of war and emigration totally eliminates historical reality and is assessed as anti-stabilization. At the same time, the unshakable faith of the lyrical hero in “rebirth” manifests vitalism, which turns out to be the paradoxical underside of mortality

State Protection of Energy Consumers

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Hanri Mostert ◽  
Tjakie Naude
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
The State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Market Models ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The One ◽  
State Protection

This chapter scrutinizes the role of the state in ensuring electricity supply and protecting end-consumers along a spectrum of energy market models. On the one end, there are markets dominated by virtual state monopolies, such as the South African example, where supply and consumer protection take on a different shape, compared to those on the other end of the spectrum, where distribution of energy to end-consumers is privatized. The European Union (EU) exemplifies the latter. Analyses of both the Australian and Nigerian models of energy supply and end-consumer protection are included to demonstrate variations within privatized markets, and comment on the role of the state in implementing privatization. Issues of procedural and participatory justice are considered. Social justice issues are raised, furthermore, in that the type of consumer protection in a system is influenced by the degree of affluence of the community and the resilience of the system of governance.

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