Project MUSE®: The South Atlantic Quarterly

Project MUSE®: The South Atlantic Quarterly - Latest Articles https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The South Atlantic Quarterly. daily 1 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 98, no. 3 (1999) - vol. 103 (2004) Latest Articles: The South Atlantic Quarterly TWO Project MUSE® The South Atlantic Quarterly 1527-8026 0038-2876 Latest articles in The South Atlantic Quarterly. Feed provided by Project MUSE® South Africa Tackles Global Apartheid: Is the Reform Strategy Working? https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172947 Thabo Mbeki, “Address by President Mbeki at the Welcome Ceremony of the WSSD,” Johannesburg, August. 25, 2002. Mbeki Thabo Address by President Mbeki at the Welcome Ceremony of the WSSD Johannesburg 08 25 2002 Thabo Mbeki, “Letter from the President: Towards a People-Centered New World Order,” ANC Today 3.43 (2003), www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/2003/at43.htm (accessed June 21, 2004). Mbeki Thabo Letter from the President: Towards a People-Centered New World Order ANC Today 3 43 2003 ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall South Africa Tackles Global Apartheid: Is the Reform Strategy Working? 2004-09-16 text/html en-US South Africa Tackles Global Apartheid: Is the Reform Strategy Working? 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 50932 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 Bitterkomix: Notes from the Post-Apartheid Underground https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172948 All translations are my own. For the sake of brevity and flow I have provided the original Afrikaans (long citations in endnotes and shorter ones in parentheses) only in cases where the language of the original seems particularly interesting or where my translation is free. The commentators I refer to are, respectively, J. Heydenrich (“Vierde Aflewering van Bitterkomix het pas Verskyn,” Beeld, January 16, 1994, 6), Mail and Guardian critic Shaun de Waal (Bitterkomix 4, 2), and Bitterkomix reader Mich Nieuwoudt in (Bitterkomix 6, 40). All translations are my own. For the sake of brevity and flow I have provided the original Afrikaans (long citations in endnotes and shorter ones in parentheses) only in cases ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall Bitterkomix: Notes from the Post-Apartheid Underground 2004-09-16 text/html en-US Bitterkomix: Notes from the Post-Apartheid Underground 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 61397 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 Notes on Contributors https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172949 Rita Barnard is associate professor of English and director of Women's Studies and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance (1995) and of Apartheid, Literature, and the Politics of Place (forthcoming). She has published articles on South African literature in Research in African Literatures, Novel,Modern Fiction Studies, Interventions, Contemporary Literature, and Postmodern Cultures.Patrick Bond is a professor in the University of the Witwatersrand's Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Johannesburg, and a visiting professor of political science at York University, Toronto. He is ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall Notes on Contributors 2004-09-16 text/html en-US Notes on Contributors 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 7169 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 "What Stank in the Past Is the Present's Perfume": Dispossession, Resistance, and Repression in Mandela Park https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172950 These bail conditions are discussed in further detail on page 863.Fonky Goboza and Max Ntanyana, interview by Richard Pithouse, 2003. Their bail conditions make it impossible to discuss the circumstances of the interview in further detail. They asked that their comments be attributed to both of them in the interest of solidarity and in case of adverse legal consequences. They approved the text of the interview after it was transcribed. Ashwin Desai, The Poors of Chatsworth (Durban: Madiba Publishers, 1999), 38. Desai Ashwin The Poors of Chatsworth Durban Madiba Publishers 1999 38 See Ashwin Desai, We Are the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall "What Stank in the Past Is the Present's Perfume": Dispossession, Resistance, and Repression in Mandela Park 2004-09-16 text/html en-US "What Stank in the Past Is the Present's Perfume": Dispossession, Resistance, and Repression in Mandela Park 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 46697 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 Transition and the Reasons of Memory https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172951 David A. Crocker, “Truth Commissions, Transnational Justice, and Civil Society,” in Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions, ed. Dennis Thompson and Robert I. Rotberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 100; emphasis added. Richard A. Wilson, The Politics of Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State, goes as far as to call this a doctrine of the “human right to a human story” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 56). Crocker David A. Truth Commissions, Transnational Justice, and Civil Society in Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions ed. ThompsonDennis and RotbergRobert ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall Transition and the Reasons of Memory 2004-09-16 text/html en-US Transition and the Reasons of Memory 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 30409 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 The Not-Yet Counterpartisan: A New Politics of Oppositionality https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172952 It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. She invested a variety of significances in the word "there," a concatenation of linked associations with space, time, and place too. The argument in The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum, Carl Schmitt's work that was first translated into English in 2003, is founded upon the title's central term, nomos. It is salient that, for a concept that is so fundamental to the project, the German political philosopher struggles to define it, to hold it in theoretical place for very long; he is certainly, despite his best efforts, not able to make it mean only one ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall The Not-Yet Counterpartisan: A New Politics of Oppositionality 2004-09-16 text/html en-US The Not-Yet Counterpartisan: A New Politics of Oppositionality 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 57714 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 Unraveling the Rainbow: The Remission of Nation in Post-Apartheid Literature https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172954 Desmund Tutu, foreword to Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report, sec. 1, chap. 1, para 91, www.gov.za/reports/2003/trc/. The jussives continue through the passage: “Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us. Let us move into the glorious future of a new kind of society where people count, not because biological irrelevancies or other extraneous attributes, but because they are persons of infinite worth created in the image of God. Let that society be a new society—more compassionate,more caring,more gentle,more given to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall Unraveling the Rainbow: The Remission of Nation in Post-Apartheid Literature 2004-09-16 text/html en-US Unraveling the Rainbow: The Remission of Nation in Post-Apartheid Literature 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 44165 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 The South African Ideology: The Myth of Exceptionalism, the Idea of Renaissance https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172955 For commentary on these developments, see Tom Lodge, Black Politics in South Africa since 1945 (New York: Longman, 1983), and Gail M. Gerhart, Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979). For commentary on these developments, see LodgeTomBlack Politics in South Africa since 1945New YorkLongman1983 and GerhartGail M.Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an IdeologyBerkeleyUniversity of California Press1979 Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (London: Heinemann, 1981 [1968]), 79. Subsequent references to this novel are given in the text. For detailed commentary on Armah, see my Resistance in Postcolonial African Fiction ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall The South African Ideology: The Myth of Exceptionalism, the Idea of Renaissance 2004-09-16 text/html en-US The South African Ideology: The Myth of Exceptionalism, the Idea of Renaissance 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 27549 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 The Political Economy of Identity Politics https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172956 ANC, “The State and Social Transformation,” ANC Discussion Document (November 1996), section 5.20, www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/policy/s&st.html (accessedApril 13, 2004). ANC The State and Social Transformation ANC Discussion Document 11 1996 section 5.20 www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/policy/s&st.html (accessedApril 13, 2004) ANC, “The State and Social Transformation,” section 5.24. ANC The State and Social Transformation section 5.24 Hein Marais, “The Logic of Expediency: Post-Apartheid Shifts in Macroeconomic Policy,” in Sean Jacobs and Richard Calland, eds., Thabo Mbeki's World: The Politics and Ideology of the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall The Political Economy of Identity Politics 2004-09-16 text/html en-US The Political Economy of Identity Politics 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 44244 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 The Revolution Betrayed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Apartheid State https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172957 David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (London: Blackwell, 1990), 286. Harvey David The Condition of Postmodernity London Blackwell 1990 286 Marx to Engels in Manchester, April 9, 1863, Marx and Engels Collected Works, vol. 41: Letters January 1860–September 1864 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), 466. Marx to Engels in Manchester, April 9, 1863 Marx and Engels Collected Works, vol. 41: Letters January 1860–September 1864 Moscow Progress Publishers 1975 466 Dennis Judd, EMPIRE: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present (London: ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall The Revolution Betrayed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Apartheid State 2004-09-16 text/html en-US The Revolution Betrayed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Apartheid State 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 33287 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16 Denialism https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959 See Phillipe Riviére, “In Denial about a Deadly Future: South Africa's AIDS Apartheid,” trans. Malcolm Greenwood, Le Monde Diplomatique (August 2002), http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/04aids (accessed April 4, 2004). This essay will instead take up the line of inquiry opened by Mandisa Mbali, who suggests that denialism is “a new ‘-ism’ in South Africa,” and Ulrike Kistner, who argues that it is “a new way of exercising political power in matters of life and death.” See Mandisa Mbali, “HIV/AIDS Policy-Making in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” in State of the Nation: South Africa 2003–2004, ed. J. Daniel, A.Habib, and R. Southall (Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2003), 327n 1; Ulrike Kistner, “The ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172959">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/175/image/coversmall Denialism 2004-09-16 text/html en-US Denialism 2004-09-16 2004 TWO Project MUSE® 203420 2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00 2004-09-16