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This book offers a holistic guide as to how South African identity and culture can be understood in the past, present, and future. Drawing from the rich archive of previously published articles from the journal
Safundi, this book
documents the mutual histories of the country and the journal over the past quarter century.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Soaring on the Wings of Pride: Martin Luther King Jr. and the "New" South Africa (2004)
2. Oprah in South Africa: The Politics of Coevalness and the Creation of a Black Public Sphere (2007)
3. The Transnational Circulation of Dissent: Olive Schreiner and the Colonial Counter-flows of Unitarian Freethinking (2013)
4. The Political and Intellectual World of Bernard Makhosozwe Magubane (1930-2013) (2015)
5. Visions of Tsafendas: Literary Biography and the Limits of "Research" (2015)
6. Gaining currency confession comedy and the economics of racial ambiguity in Trevor Noah s
Born a Crime (2021)
7. Resistance, Memory, and Hope: The Photographic Art of Peter Magubane (2005)
8. Zanele Muholi's Intimate Archive: Photography and Post-apartheid Lesbian Lives (2010)
9. Being (2010)
10. Santu Mofokeng: Alternative Ways of Seeing (1996-2013) (2014)
11. Reframing the Afrikaner Subject: The Visual Grammar of David Goldblatt and Roelof van Wyk (2014)
12. Re-collecting the Musical Politics of John and Nokutela Dube (2012)
13. Part II: Zef/Poor White Kitsch Chique: Die Antwoord's Comedy of Degradation (2012)
14. The South African Life and Afterlife of Jim Reeves (2014)
15. A Marriage of Inconvenience: Miriam Makeba's relationship with Stokely Carmichael (2016)
16. Rodriguez, apartheid, and censorship: cold facts, and fiction (2021)
17. Caster Semenya: Gods and Monsters (2010)
18. A peculiar place for a feminist? The New South African woman,
True Love magazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile (2016)
19. Queer politics and intersectionality in South Africa (2017)
20. The gender-apartheid analogy in the transnational feminist imaginary:
Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, 1972-2002 (2018)
21. Yearning for rootedness in a femicidal landscape (2021)
22. Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Networks and the Production of
Come Back, Africa (2015)
23. The D Is Silent:
Django Unchained and the African American West (2015)
24. "Zones of indistinction" and visions of post reconciliation South Africa in
District 9 (2017)
25. Between the world and Wakanda (2019)
26. Spike Lee,
Do the Right Thing and the cultural boycott of apartheid South Africa (2019)
27. A Taste for Strife; or, Spur in the South African Imaginary (2015)
28. The Karoo and eco-inflections of fracking: preliminary notes on literary imagination (2017) 2
9. Uncertain objects and ethnographic possibilities thinking through the Smithsonian Universal African Expedition (2020)
30. This is the Place: Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria: monuments to settler constructions of history race and religion (2021)
31. Contradictory excessiveness: abandoned trolleys in post-apartheid South Africa (2021)
About the author
Christopher J. Lee has published ten books, including
Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019),
Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014),
Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015),
Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and
Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of
Safundi.
Andrew Offenburger is Associate Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of
Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 (Yale University Press, 2019), and is co-editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming
Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond (University of Nebraska Press). He is the Founding Editor of
Safundi.
