Download or read book Boerejood written by Julian Roup and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts South Africa through the eyes of a Boerejood, a half-Afrikaans, half-Jewish writer who struggles with issues of race and identity, as does his nation.
Download or read book The Travelling Rabbi written by Moshe Silberhaft and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Tracing the journeys of the Travelling Rabbi, this book highlights Rabbi Silberhafts invaluable work in Africa, from caring for the graves of the forgotten and performing wedding ceremonies to providing kosher food and religious insight to various communities. Including numerous storiessome tragic, others humorous, but always fascinatingthis memoir is a celebration of the resilient people he encounters and a permanent record of the Jewish communities and personalities who would otherwise be forgotten.
Download or read book Breaking Barriers written by C N Van Der Merwe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Locating Life Stories written by Maureen Perkins and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen essays in this volume come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai‘i. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told, the authors engage with a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, media studies, and literature, to challenge claims that life writing is an exclusively Western phenomenon. Addressing the common desire to reflect on lived experience, the authors enlist interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for representing and understanding lives. Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David T. Hill, Craig Howes, Bryan Kuwada, Kirin Narayan, Maureen Perkins, Peter Read, Tony Simoes da Silva, Mathilda Slabbert, Gerry van Klinken, Pei-yi Wu.
Download or read book A Dictionary of South African English written by Jean Branford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 5000 entries, this enlarged and revised edition provides a wealth of new and updated words borrowed from Afrikaans, Malay, township slang, Indian Khosian and Bantu languages, including words influenced by the political upheavals of recent years. Branford offers phonetic transcripts for words derived from other languages, and for most entries, he gives etymologies, grammatical usages, and helpful quotes.
Download or read book Press Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fisherman in the Saddle written by Julian Roup and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the journey of the author as he reflects back on his life-long quest to find "a place of his own" through the two sources of renewal in his life: horseback riding and fishing.
Download or read book Life in a Time of Plague A Coronavirus Lockdown Diary written by Julian Roup and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Engaged, intelligent, personal, fast moving and funny.” - Financial Times Life in a Time of Plague is the story of Britain under the first 75 days of its unprecedented Covid-19 lockdown, seen from the author’s rural East Sussex valley home in England. From the refuge of a seemingly idyllic rural idyll, the book monitors in bleak and forensic detail the failure of the Government to protect Britain, and its woeful response at every stage of the pandemic. The author’s age and medical issues colour this diary with a dark humour, as his age group is most at risk. He is determined to make his 70th birthday at least, despite the thousands of deaths in Britain to date. It is a quiet slow appreciation of the bright green spring and summer of 2020 in the English countryside, set against the horrors faced by frontline workers. However, what is most surprising is that amid the death, heartache and economic carnage, there is also a silver lining, a chance to simply stop and stare, and rethink our lives. Julian Roup has produced a podcast series based on 'Life In a Time of Plague'. You can listen to it here - https://iono.fm/c/5264 - first broadcast by BizNews.
Download or read book Narrative Values the Value of Narratives written by Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing interest in studying narrative discourse as ‘experimental values laboratory,’ both reflecting social values and participating in their circulation. Given the omnipresence of narrative and story-telling practices in public life, from advertising to politics, law, and the media, the need for narrative savviness – that is, the ability to read for the values that inhere in and are transmitted through narrative – transcends the study of fiction. This volume brings into focus the ways in which narratives are informed and shaped by values, and how they transmit values themselves. The authors in the volume take a broad range of approaches to narrative, including narratology, rhetoric, ecocriticism, narrative (meta)hermeneutics, applied narratology, and frame theory. By bringing together strands of contemporary narrative theory that are not often found in dialogue with one another, the volume aims to capture the most recent developments in the study of narrative ethics.
Download or read book A Jew Like Me and You written by Dan Munteno and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Munteno (this is a pseudonym) was born in Romania, into a middle-class secular Jewish family. He lived through the unpleasantness of the communist regime until age 17 years, when the whole family emigrated to Israel in the 70's. After finishing high school, he went to the military, then left Israel for medical studies in Italy. He returned to Israel for specialist training and was later sent to Africa, on an internationally-supported Israeli medical mission. Since 1991 he lives and works in South Africa and was naturalized a South African citizen in 1994. His hobbies are long-distance trips to the surrounding countries of Swaziland and Mocambique, and collecting Southern African paintings. Dan Munteno is divorced, his 23-years old daughter is a student in Jerusalem and his 20-year old son is still in the military. " This is the power of memory combined with an expressive, almost journalistic style. Dan Munteno is able to convey his feelings of hope for a better, united world, and to share his joy of living even in times of sorrow. Very pleasant to read" Concetta De Vivo Dukes, lawyer, Johannesburg "This book comes from the heart. The stories, written in an unpretentious narrative, present ordinary people who behave unexpectedly in challenging moments of their lives. I have enjoyed them a lot. They brought tears to my eyes, as well as laughter. Because after all the differences between us are lifted, we connect with our souls and discover joy and peace." Mirjana Lovric, physician, Boksburg, South Africa " I have enjoyed reading this work. In each short story I felt like having a glimpse of people, events and countries, through a window that was opened only for a fraction of time. The personages were real in their life-time, and they are real in my mind ." Emmanuelle Kabamba, physician, preacher and writer, Boksburg, S Africa "Munteno's book is fun, witty and easy to read. I have "traveled" with it along the Mediterranean Sea toward South Africa, "met" different people, customs and faiths, and enjoyed most of them" Tracy Matthews, medical technologist, Boksburg, South Africa
Download or read book Into the Secret Heart of Ashdown Forest A Horseman s Country Diary written by Julian Roup and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Secret Heart of Ashdown Forest is a love letter after a forty-year affair. Wry, funny, moving and vivid, this memoir chronicles the life of the author and the ten square miles of country he calls his Kingdom. This book is as good as a brisk walk in the woods on an autumn day. Written with love and passion, it is a hymn to landscape and freedom. It is a close and deep observation of the writer’s adopted country, the fabled Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England, (the home of Winnie the Pooh), where he has lived and ridden for the past forty years. His gift is the ability to take you deep into the landscapes that make this place resonate in his heart: its streams, woods, heathlands. You meet its literary residents, A.A, Milne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats. You get beneath its skin among the networks of fungi that allow the trees to speak. You taste its foods, meet its locals, both the living and the ghosts, and see its huge importance during the plague year 2020-21 through the pandemic lockdowns. His passion for horses shines through these pages and his writing is, as he himself says, a form of ‘moving meditation’. He takes you under the soil of this place and he leaves a soft glow on the landscape when he is gone.
Download or read book Evita s Bossie Sikelela written by Evita Bezuidenhout and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evita – acclaimed chef and icon of the nation – presents her recipes for delicious dishes gathered on travels in South Africa and around the world. From the Cape to Limpopo, the West Coast to our president’s home province, come divine platefuls: guineafowl with prunes, potroasted quail, quince bredie and orange duck. Pofadders, oxtail and even sweet and sour warthog. Evita reinvents old favourites, and deliciously prepares veldkos – who would have thought of waterblommetjie chicken or dandelion salad for the dinner table? Each recipe has been tested and vetted, and they’re all ridiculously easy to make. My liewe aarde, just paging through the book is a mouth-watering experience, with all these pictures taken on her visits. First there was Kossie Sikelela, now there is Bossie. A new culinary front hits your table.
Download or read book On Record written by Schalk van der Merwe and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Afrikaans music artists have done well in post-apartheid South Africa and enjoy the enthusiastic support of loyal fans. This support is fuelled by a complex set of emotions linked to "e;being Afrikaans"e; in a culturally pluralistic society. In On Record, van der Merwe investigates the interplay between popular music and the unfolding of Afrikaans culture politics from the start of the twentieth century to the present. It includes a search for the earliest recorded Afrikaans songs and documents subsequent phases of music development that reflect the agency of ordinary individuals - artists and listeners - against a background of fundamental societal and political change. It regards both the music mainstream and the alternative, and reveals, among other things, historical cases of compliance and resistance regarding the master narrative of Afrikaner nationalist ideology, the attempts by cultural entrepreneurs to establish authority over popular Afrikaans culture, class tension, lasting racial exclusivity, protest and censorship, and the post-apartheid invocation of Afrikaner nostalgia and white victimhood. Ultimately, On Record provides an uninterrupted account, and a critique, of the entire history of recorded popular Afrikaans music up to the present.
Download or read book Spearheading Debate written by Steven C. Dubin and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As South Africa’s democracy matures, this book raises pertinent questions: How does the state mediate between traditional tribal authority and constitutional law in matters such as initiation customs or the rights of women, children, and homosexuals? What are the limitations on artistic freedom in a society where sensitivities over colonial- and apartheid-era representations are acute? How does race open up discussions or close down dialogue? and What are the parameters of freedom of speech when minorities fear that hateful language may trigger actual violence against them? Examining disputes over South African art, music, media, editorial cartoons, history, public memory, and a variety of social practices, the culture wars' perspective is extended to new territory in this study, demonstrating its cross-cultural applicability and parsing critical debates within this vibrant society in formation.
Download or read book Darling Mutti written by Joan Marshall and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recounting of the lives of three young Jewish cousins, who escaped from Germany during World War II, is told in three parts in this personal memoir. With information provided from the author's mother's journal, these notes discovered after her mother's death explain the escape of the three cousins to different places in the world--South Africa, the United States, and Scotland.
Download or read book Plate en Politiek written by S.D. van der Merwe and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populere Afrikaanse musiekkunstenaars het sover goed gedoen in post'apartheid Suid-Afrika en geniet die entoesiastiese ondersteuning van lojale volgelinge. Hierdie ondersteuning word aangevuur deur 'n komplekse stel emosies wat verband hou daarmee "e;om Afrikaans te wees"e; in 'n kultureel pluralistiese samelewing. In Plate en Politiek ondersoek Van der Merwe die interaksie tussen populere musiek en die ontvouing van 'n Afrikaanse kultuurpolitiek vanaf die begin van die twintigste eeu tot die hede. Dit sluit 'n soektog in na die eerste opgeneemde Afrikaanse liedere en dokumenteer die daaropvolgende fases van musiekontwikkeling wat die agentskap van ordinere mense - kunstenaar en luisteraar - weerspieel teen die agtergrond van fundamentele sosiale en politieke verandering. Dit besin oor beide die musiekhoofstroom en meer alternatiewe musiek, en ontbloot onder andere, historiese voorbeelde van die akkommodering van, en verset teen, die meesternarratief van die Afrikanernasionalistiese ideologie, pogings van kulturele entrepreneurs om beheer uit te oefen oor populere Afrikaanse kultuur, klassespanning, blywende rasse-eksklusiwiteit, protes en sensuur, en die post'apartheid oproeping van Afrikaner nostalgie en wit slagofferskap. Uiteindelik bied Plate en Politiek 'n on-onderbroke weergawe van , en 'n kritiese blik op, meer as 'n eeu van opgeneemde Afrikaanse musiek.
