Shane Moran - Alternation Journal
Shane Moran - Alternation Journal
Shane Moran - Alternation Journal
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
wolnen' has cxetnplary status (llaymond I996<br />
L,eavis' sliding of critic and artist into one co~nposite figure in Fov C'ontin~~ily (<br />
all act of transference resliapes Fleait, as an ol~tsidcr interpreting a I-ural Bots<br />
community, in the image ofIhc sensitive acad<br />
of a colnlnoll11~1nanit): or obligations, and t<br />
a ~ reader ~ d effectively cuts [tie subject offfrorn the forces that determine it.<br />
Barbara Bobven, the IJ.S. series editor of South Afviccrn ~enzjnisrns'<br />
concludes her overview of scholarship in the immediate post-apartheid years b<br />
echoing the theme of developing equity:<br />
Black women's autobiographies, oral literature, and ritual narrative come<br />
under djscnssion here, not just as rich textual performances but as conlplex<br />
nlediations between black and white women, between State power and<br />
traditional patriarchy (Bowen 1996:xi).<br />
Texts are conceived as 'complex mediation<br />
discours, is the enabling site where these e<br />
between State power and traditional pat<br />
foml of these positions inside and outs<br />
conception of the institution as an open netwo<br />
" Isahel Hofineyr (1992) has cautioned against the 'vague and ailistorical' approach of m<br />
feminist literary studies. Nadine Gordimer (1983<br />
~ljstoricisatioll of categories within humanis<br />
'swallow this (old) view ofgenius as aclass-d<br />
lecturer at annetlrnic" university for South African In<br />
~ofIlieyr's work on oral tradition without<br />
norl^ilalivc and allistorical South African English lit<br />
licid of African studies.<br />
'" Sol,t/lt?fujcall I;emi,2ismLy was enthusiastically<br />
s,+,,dirs 1997~23.4 (677-679) by Anthony O'Rrien<br />
York. Interestingly O'Brien is thc partner ofBowen.<br />
" I ; wilcn ~ rciationships ~ ~ of power within pedagogy are ackno~\iledgc(j literature rcma'<br />
facilitator rccipl.ocity: 'vrl~rouglr exposure to alternative views illld by tlcveloping the s<br />
sci,u,,.cd to &i:ni[ a vielvpoirlt allti Lo ~.ccognisc good reasons 10 cil:ingc one's mind \V<br />
,,ccessalT. stucients arc intiucted -as SLIII participaitts---iii(o t11~ ilrcna oi'col~~~~e~ing ideas a<br />
;,l,lc.;. ~(-T;,rLlsi I c)").:';?). -l.llc conticluit): ol'this hegcmociic. moi-alistic virlv ofiilcl-atl~l-e<br />
ti,i. l,ced lo luoi!ib 1lor-). Rynn.5 (1')98:22) claim tliat. \.viilrii~ literal-) studies. ti1cl.c is<br />
cl,llsi:nsLls. . i\ccp-sti.~lcturc ass~i~nptioii hinciit-tgall praclitio~lcl-s'.<br />
A vision of the university as the facilitator of mutual recognition between<br />
ose within and beyond the institution, a means or instrument to mediate the transition<br />
a new sense of citizenship, is shared by literary academics at the metropole and in