Autor: Pumla Dineo Gqola

The xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what …

Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nation …

A study of slave memory in South Africa using feminist, postcolonial and memory studies Much has been made about South Africa’s transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. ‘Memor …

A feminist exploration of the public lives of performer Simphiwe Dana – a rebel with several causes, in eight essays, award winning author, Prof Gqola brilliantly shows why Dana is arguably one of th …

Winner of the 2016 Alan Paton Award,  Rape:A South African Nightmare unpacks South Africa’s various relationships to rape, connections between rape culture and the shock/disbelief syndrome that chara …

Reflecting Rogue – Inside the Mind of a Feminist is a mesmerizing collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and SA culture, written by 2016 Alan Paton Award winner, Profes …

An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today’s scholars and radical thinkers Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first co …

Where Rape A South African nightmare introduced strategies for disrupting rape culture at an individual level,  Female Fear Factory offers an even bolder vision for collective action against all cult …

What do African feminist traditions that exist outside the canon look and feel like? What complex cultural logics are at work outside the centres of power? How do spirituality and feminism influence …

Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nation …

The xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what …

Much has been made about South Africa’s transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. "Memory" features prominently in the country’s reckoning with its pasts. While there …

‘Patriarchy does not respect national boundaries. It is unabashedly promiscuous in its influences and tethers. Yet, it does use nationalism very productively.’ An empty street at night. A crowded bus …

This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr’s path-breaking studies …

Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the world’s leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities. For four decades and counting, her w …