Papers by Pumla Dineo Gqola
Gender & Development, 2024
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Gqola, P. D., Perera, I., Phadke, S., Shahrokni, N., Zaragocin, S., Satija, S., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Gender and public space. Gender & Development, 32(1–2), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2024.2376976
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Current Writing: Text And Reception In Southern Africa, 2001
African Journal of Gender and Religion
In this essay, I offer a feminist reading of Athambile Masola’s award-winning debut collection of... more In this essay, I offer a feminist reading of Athambile Masola’s award-winning debut collection of poetry, Ilifa, focusing on her use of religious imagination. I demonstrate how Masola’s repeated use of religious metaphor, language, and Christian location illuminates more than aspects of religious community, piety, and belonging, important though these are. In Ilifa, specific appearances of religious language, as well as the rhetorical uses to which religious imagery and the disruption of Christian iconography are put, reveal the poet’s understanding of the making of transgenerational southern African feminist publicness. Her deployment of Christian vocabularies amplifies multigenerational African (women’s) contribution to (South) Africa’s intellectual and creative archives. While her religious references are not confined to Christianity, I limit myself to Biblical references to better tend to the intersections of feminist mapping, epistemic risk, and the poet’s engagement with two c...
African Journal of Gender and Religion, 2023
In this essay, I offer a feminist reading of Athambile Masola's awardwinning debut collection of ... more In this essay, I offer a feminist reading of Athambile Masola's awardwinning debut collection of poetry, Ilifa, focusing on her use of religious imagination. I demonstrate how Masola's repeated use of religious metaphor, language, and Christian location illuminates more than aspects of religious community, piety, and belonging, important though these are. In Ilifa, specific appearances of religious language, as well as the rhetorical uses to which religious imagery and the disruption of Christian iconography are put, reveal the poet's understanding of the making of transgenerational southern African feminist publicness. Her deployment of Christian vocabularies amplifies multigenerational African (women's) contribution to (South) Africa's intellectual and creative archives. While her religious references are not confined to Christianity, I limit myself to Biblical references to better tend to the intersections of feminist mapping, epistemic risk, and the poet's engagement with two centuries of South African isiXhosa literary archive in print. Masola references these intellectual entries into publicness to negotiate her own admission into literary public life. I surface the context and conceptual landscapes of Masola's own poetic project.
The utopian assumptions about the Internet and other allied Information and Communication Technol... more The utopian assumptions about the Internet and other allied Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as the harbingers of a world free of violent hierarchies have long since proved erroneous. Instead the initial idealism has been recognized as overzealous miscalculation in scholarship, software developer communities and economic development settings, alike. The initial optimism has been replaced by the stark recognition that technologies are not value-free but carry the political effects of their distributors, users and uses. As the first opening quotation of this paper, the extract from an essay by Jennifer Radloff, the co-ordinator of the Association for Progressive Communications’ Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), above, suggests, the Internet and ICTs offer both solutions and challenges.
Rhodes Journalism Review, 2004
Everywhere you look this year there are reminders and encouragements to celebrate freedom, to par... more Everywhere you look this year there are reminders and encouragements to celebrate freedom, to participate in the culmination of a decade of building and enshrining independence. It has been hard work, we are reminded by billboards and advertisements in newspapers, television and popular magazines, but it has been well worth it. Public declarations of pride and joy abound. The roles of the media in this celebration attest to the reciprocity of the relationship between culture and politics.
Becoming Worthy Ancestors
The inevitable heterogeneity of all human clusters means that there is an endlessly large spectru... more The inevitable heterogeneity of all human clusters means that there is an endlessly large spectrum of possibilities through which members of that group can inhabit any experiential positioning. It is in light of this that representations which fix members of a group into set series of behaviours and characteristics, in other words stereotype them, are problematic. It therefore is quite clear why historic representations of Black women subjects and characters as hypersexualised or long suffering mother figures is unacceptable. Much research has shown the direct correlation between the stereotyping of Black women and their oppression under changing historical eras.
Much has been made about South Africa's transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and... more Much has been made about South Africa's transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and most recently apartheid. "Memory" as a descriptive features quite prominently in the definition of the country's reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full length texts which study this transition, most have focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). This study links with that research in its concern with South Africa's past and the meaning-making processes attendant to it, but reads specifically memory activity which pertains to colonial slavery as practiced predominantly in the western Cape for three centuries by the British and the Dutch. Theoretically, the thesis engages closely with the vast terrain of interdisciplinary memory studies which characterises the Humanities and Social Sciences. It reads memory as one way of processing the past, and interprets a variety of cultural, literary...
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Papers by Pumla Dineo Gqola
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Gqola, P. D., Perera, I., Phadke, S., Shahrokni, N., Zaragocin, S., Satija, S., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Gender and public space. Gender & Development, 32(1–2), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2024.2376976
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Gqola, P. D., Perera, I., Phadke, S., Shahrokni, N., Zaragocin, S., Satija, S., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Gender and public space. Gender & Development, 32(1–2), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2024.2376976
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