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Associate Professor
Name: Sikhumbuzo Mngadi
Location: B Ring 720 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0) 11 559 4631
Email:听smngadi@uj.ac.za
About Prof. Sikhumbuzo Mngadi
Qualifications
BA, BA Hons., MA (UDW); PhD (UKZN)
Teaching and Research Interests
Prof Sikhumbuzo Mngadi鈥檚 interests are literary and cultural theory, South African literature and visual culture.
PUBLICATIONS
- 2022: 鈥淪ituating Sibusiso Nyembezi in African Literature鈥. Foundational African Writers. Johannesburg: Wits 欧美福利100000 Press
- 2017: 鈥淕hetto Fabulous鈥: Township Space and the Representation of Post-Apartheid Black Male Youth Violence in Yizo Yizo 1.鈥 Gender & Behaviour 15 (2)
- 2015: 鈥淭he Cultural Politics of Adaptation: Fools and the Politics of Gender.鈥 Journal of African Cinemas, Vol. 7, No. 1.
- 2012: 鈥淓xile and Earthly Paradise: Counter-critique and the Debts of Race in Lewis Nkosi.鈥 English in Africa, Vol. 39, No. 3.
- 2008: 鈥淢andela鈥檚 Ego: A 鈥楥ock鈥 and 鈥楤ull鈥 Story.鈥 Alternation, Vol. 15, No. 2.
- 2005: 鈥淪ome Thoughts on Black Homosexualities in South African Writing.鈥 English in Africa, Vol. 32, No. 2.
- 2005: 鈥淗ostage Drama: The Rhythm of Violence and Some Comments on 鈥淭he Black Psychiatrist.鈥 Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi
- 2004: 鈥淩econsidering the Copula, 鈥渁nd,鈥 in Literature and Politics, and Some Thoughts on 鈥榩rogressive formalism鈥欌. Alternation, Vol. 11, No. 1.
- 2004: 鈥淩eading the Unpublished, or, 鈥榯he university in the eyes of its pupils鈥欌. Alternation, Vol. 11, No. 1.
- 2001 (with Tamlyn Monson): 鈥淣ationalism and Feminism: McClintock鈥檚 Reading of South Africa.鈥 Alternation, Vol. 8, No. 2.
- 2000: “Interview.” Senses of Culture, eds. Nuttall, Sarah & Cheryl-Ann Michael. South Africa: Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press
- 1999: “Rereading and Resistance.” republished in SIRS Mandarin, Renaissance series, Florida
- 1998: “Rereading and Resistance,” published in Afterimage: A Publication of the Visual Studies Workshop, Vol. 26, No. 3, New York: Rochester 欧美福利100000
- 1997: 鈥溾楢fricanization鈥, Or, The New Exoticism.鈥 Scrutiny 2, Vol. 2, No. 3.
- 1996: 鈥淭he Politics of Historical Representation in the Context of Global Capitalism.鈥 Rethinking South African Literary History. Durban: Y- Press
- 1996: 鈥淭he Antinomies and Possibilities of 鈥楻adical鈥 Historical Consciousness: The Case of Three South African Playtexts in English.鈥 Alternation, Vol. 3, No. 1.
- 1996: 鈥淒isciplines and Issues, Or Disciplined Issues? Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages Conference, 13-16 September 1995, Durban.鈥 Scrutiny 2, Vol. 1
- 1995: 鈥溾楶opular Memory鈥 and Social Change in South African Drama of the Seventies in English: The Case of Credo Mutwa鈥檚 Unosilimela.鈥 Alternation, Vol. 1, No. 1.
- 1995: 鈥淩eading in a State of Emergence: The Rhetoric of Cultural Transformation and the Post-Colonial-post-apartheid Condition.鈥 Alternation, Vol. 2, No. 1.
BOOK REVIEWS
- 2009: 鈥淭he Orange Revolution.鈥 A Review of James Currey鈥檚 Africa Writes Back (2008). Africa Review of Books/Revue Africaine des Livres, Vol. 5, No. 1
- 2013: 鈥淭he Struggle to Know a Dark Mind.鈥 A Review of Redi Thlabi鈥檚 Endings and Beginnings (2012). The Sunday Independent, April 14, 2013
