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Name: Bafana Radebe
Location: B Ring 712A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Email:听bafanar@uj.ac.za
About Mr Bafana Radebe
Qualifications:
B.Ed., BA Hons in English, MA in English (欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg)
Teaching and Research Interests:
Bafana Radebe is a Lecturer (Temporal) in the English Department at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. His research interests include post-apartheid literature, African realisms, literary trauma, trauma theories, Blackness, and Critical Race Theories (CRT). He completed an MA thesis titled 鈥淭he Tropes of Unspeakability in The Narration of Trauma in Three Post-apartheid Novels,鈥� where he demonstrated how the trope of unspeakability in Zakes Mda鈥檚 Ways of Dying, Niq Mhlongo鈥檚 Way Back Home, and Gillian Slovo鈥檚 Red Dust shows how the trauma of black characters both intentionally and unintentionally resists representation and, thus, renders said trauma incommunicable. To prove his argument, he used frameworks of trauma, anti-blackness, liminality, power, and hegemony to show how they all substantiate the nuances he makes about the unspeakabilities of the trauma of black characters. For his PhD, he maintains focusing on Blackness by exploring Black South African and African American autobiographies and memoirs.
Presentations: Colloquia and Symposiums attended.
October 2023 (欧美福利100000 of Southampton, UK): Theme of Symposium: 鈥淎frican Realisms and Related Forms.鈥� Paper: 鈥淎frican Realisms, Narrativity, and Affect: The Case of Three African Texts.鈥�
April 2023 (欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, Johannesburg): Theme of Symposium: 鈥淏loke Modisane Centenary Symposium.鈥� Paper: 鈥淭he question of black ontology in Bloke Modisane鈥檚 Blame on History.鈥�
May 2022 (欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, Johannesburg): Theme of Colloquium: 鈥淒emocracy from below: Decolonizing and retheorizing democracy in Africa.鈥� Paper: 鈥淎 disappointing democracy in Niq Mhlongo鈥檚 Way Back Home.鈥�