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Liz Gunner

Visiting Professor
Name: Liz Gunner
Location: K-Blue building, LanCSAL Department, Room 15 Bunting Road Campus
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Tel: 011 559 1275

Email:听lgunner@uj.ac.za

About Liz Gunner

Professor Liz Gunner has published widely in the field of African oral literature and on modern performance practice in southern Africa. Her PhD in African Languages and Literatures, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, 欧美福利100000 of London (1984), and on Zulu Praising and Praises. Much of her work has explored question of language, change and identity in Zulu performative culture, within the broader regional African context. Her most recent work follows through her sustained interest in language and performance, and in some cases moves into new but linked domains, namely media and in particular radio as a site of key creativity and resilience in the African context, as well as migration, and Southern African migrants鈥� use of digital media in South Africa. Her current project is a book on precarity and song in post-1994 South Africa. She is also involved in a group project Negotiating Languages of Johannesburg through AI.

Publications

  • 2024:

鈥楤eyond the Static: Women, Voice and Radio Zulu in the 1970s and 1980s鈥�

Taylor & Francis:

 

  • 2023:

鈥楥ultural Histories of South Africa鈥�

Oxford:

 

  • 2020:

鈥楶olitical Song in Africa鈥� ed Nic Cheeseman

Oxford:

 

  • 2019:

鈥楻adio Soundings. South Africa and the Black Modern鈥�

Cambridge:

Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Distinguished Award: Book of the Year (2020)

Long-list: Sunday Times鈥� Book of the Year (2021)

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  • 2018:

鈥榃ith Respect to Zulu鈥� with Judith Irvine

JSTOR:

鈥楨cologies of Orality鈥� in The Cambridge Companion to World Literature鈥� eds Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler

Cambridge:

 

  • 2016

鈥楾hick time, Heavy time鈥� Ethnos 83:2

Taylor & Francis:

 

  • 2015:

鈥楽ong, identity and the state: Julius Malema’s Dubul鈥� ibhunu song as catalyst鈥�

JSTOR:

 

  • 2014

鈥楽oft Masculinities, 鈥淚sicathamiya鈥� and Radio鈥�

JSTOR:

 

  • 2011

鈥楻adio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities鈥� eds Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, and Dumisani Moyo.

Taylor & Francis:

 

  • 2009:

鈥楯acob Zuma, the Social Body and the Unruly Power of Song鈥�

JSTOR:

 

  • 2008:

鈥楶ower, Marginality and African Oral Literature鈥� eds Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner

Cambridge:

 

  • 2005:

鈥楢frica and orality鈥�

Cambridge:

 

  • 2002 (2004 2nd edition (UKZN) includes letter from Bishop Shembe):

鈥楾he Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God鈥� ed and translator Liz Gunner

Brill:

 

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