South African History and Culture

White Teeth (2000) fictionalises the realities that immigrants experience and reveals how they find themselves caught in a chaotic, fragmented and alienated world and seek to actualise themselves through similar escape mechanisms. Through a close reading of the novel, this article, suggesting that a literary text subj…

• SERCAN HAMZA BAĞLAMA

Abstract Since the fall of the apartheid regime, critical discourse on and popular imaginations of South Africa have focused with renewed intensity on the city of Johannesburg: its schizophrenic social organization, its fragmented geography, its “citadelization,” its “architecture of fear,” and its development within…

Heroic leaders advocating for reconciliation has become particularly significant in the process of conflict resolution. This article analyses the case of South Africa’s national reconciliation experiences and Mandela’s iconic role in this process. It is claimed that Mandela’s reconciliation-oriented leadership, his pe…

• YUNUS TURHAN

The debut novel of Zadie Smith, White Teeth, handles the notions of “history” and “root” momentously. The novel, which presents the characters’ past and root with many minor stories, functions as a historical bond connecting the past to the present and the future. As a postcolonial and multicultural novel, White Teeth…

• SEDA ARIKAN

Background and Purpose: This study examines how hybridity, identity, and diaspora intersect within immigrant experiences, particularly among South Asian diasporic communities in Britain, as depicted in White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Situated within a sociocultural framework, the research explores how migration and multic…

• NİMETULLAH ALDEMİR

Background and Purpose: This study examines how hybridity, identity, and diaspora intersect within immigrant experiences, particularly among South Asian diasporic communities in Britain, as depicted in White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Situated within a sociocultural framework, the research explores how migration and multic…

• FİKRET GÜVEN

In this study, the “minor Mediterranean” (drawn from Deleuze and Guattari’s minor literature) serves as the theoretical framework for the interwar novelists Claude McKay and Panait Istrati, both of whom came to the Mediterranean region from the margins of Western society (Jamaica and Romania). McKay’s Banjo (1929), fe…

This paper reads Nthikeng Mohlele’s 2013 novel Small Things with a view to understanding a qualitative shift in South Africa’s post-apartheid historical consciousness: an emergent sense of being in “exile from history.” This is not simply a relationship to history of being “post,” but rather a melancholic attachment t…

This review essay situates itself within the broad body of scholarship that has returned to South Africa’s apartheid years in order to critique the assumptions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and raise once more the issue of justice. It surveys three studies from 2014 that examine apartheid-era experiences…

Abstract This article examines the 2015 art-film Necktie Youth (Sibs Shongwe-La Mer) with a view to understanding new affective, temporal and genre formations in post-transitional South Africa. A quasi-documentary portrait of ennui and depression among a circle of privileged 'born-free' youth in Johannesburg's wealthy…

This article explores disability as a trope of storytelling in by J. M. Coetzee"s 2005 novel Slow Man.Although much has been written on the novel"s narrative experiments, very little criticism to date has examined the question of disability in the novel.This article aims to remedy this gap and offers a close reading o…

• MELİZ ERGİN BİLGİN

The recent African scramble has resulted in uneven and combined development (UCD) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) throughout the 21st century due to unequal exchange. South Africa plays a sub-imperial role in this scramble in SSA. It both exploits and is exploited. The mining industry in South Africa has attracted interes…

• SİNAN BARAN