This dissertation is concerned with literary and postcolonial (re) configurations of resistance
and negotiation as concepts through which to approach representations of postcolonial …

The introduction to this symposium considers South African author and editor Ivan
Vladislavić's engagement with South African visual culture and the significance of this to his …

The primary aim of this study is to contextualize contemporary migrant experience in South
Africa and the diverse and creative ways this has been captured in poetic forms. The whole …

This thesis adopts a contrapuntal reading of Johannesburg through the work of Ivan
Vladislavić. While it evaluates the dominant and pervasive readings of the city in current and …

Abstract This paper uses Ivan Vladislavić's monograph Willem Boshoff, published by David
Krut in the TAXI Art Series, as a means to explore the idea of art in relation to Vladislavić's …

This paper problematises Wilderson's Afro-pessimism as a hue of neo-epidermisation. While
Frank B. Wilderson III, sliding into a category sometimes referred to as auto-theory, an …

As a nation of the global South, with its history of imperialism and apartheid intersecting in
the present moment with neoliberal globalization, South Africa constitutes something of a …

Abstract Nostalgia, Home and Be-Longing in Contemporary South African Fiction: Zakes
Mda and Ivan Vladislavić Abstract The dissertation examines the representation of nostalgic …

As a fictional response to a series of artworks by the Johannesburg artist, Joachim
Schönfeldt, Ivan Vladislavić's The Exploded View had unconventional origins. Though …

South Africa's period of transition has given rise to new forms of cultural and artistic
production, which both speak to and reflect the nation's changing social, political and ethical …