Promoting collaborative research on ideas
central to the pressing issues of our time.
Mandia Haarhoff, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, Noon-1:00pm. 124 Sparks Building
Lunch will be provided.
This paper turns to crime farm literature in post-apartheid South Africa, the trope of the Black as intruder, and the renegotiation of whiteness and the Khoe indigeneity as intimately related. I ask, what does the emergence of the farm crime literary genre alongside South Africa’s land reformation process and the white genocide movement contribute to post-apartheid discourse on indigeneity? How does the farm function as a site for the staging of sovereignty and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa? I interrogate the reemergence of the 1980s anxiety of the Black peril and the contemporary depiction of the “Bantu” as settler-adjacent invaders.
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Episode 8 of HumIn Focus, “To Be Indigenous: Learning with Native Peoples” premiered on WPSU on February 22nd, 2024, at 9:00 p.m. 📰 Click here to read the release announcement in the news.
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