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  Events 2011

Grace Musila
Dept. of English, Stellenbosch

Tuesday
19 October 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

Light refreshments will be provided.

 

Writing Belief, Reading Belief:
Adam Ashforth's Madumo: A Man Bewitched and Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa

Duncan Brown
Dean of Arts, UWC

Tuesday
5 October 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

Light refreshments will be provided.

Hospitality and the politics of evidence
in a post-apartheid archive:
Critical reflections on There Was This Goat

Sandra Young
Dept. of English, UCT

Tuesday
28 September 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

Light refreshments will be provided.

Summertime

Thursday
23 September 2010
16h00

Venue:
A116, Department of English, UCT

Further information...

The following questions are points of departure for our discussion around Summertime:

  1. How does the fragmentation of perspective in Summertime alter our understanding of Coetzee’s fictional project? In other words, what are we to make of the fact that the protagonist, John, is described to us from the point of view of various characters, in contrast to the singular perspective of the previous fictionalized memoirs, Boyhood and Youth?

  2. How does the relationship between John and his father inform the emotional carriage of the
    book, and to what extent does this signal a departure for Coetzee, especially if we consider the treatment of the father in his previous work?

  3. We find in Summertime a softening in the author’s approach to Afrikaans. How might we interpret this development? Compare, for example, the passage in Youth where speaking Afrikaans is compared to speaking Nazi. Does this bear any relation to the shift in the relationship between father and son?

  4. The space of the farm features prominently in Coetzee’s work, as a formative landscape
    but also as a space that allows for socio-political commentary. How does the treatment of the farm in Summertime influence our understanding of the constitution of John’s character in the book?

  5. The interlocutors in Summertime all knew John in a different capacity (lover, cousin, colleague, etc.), but none of them knew him specifically as a writer. Is this important, and if so, why?

  6. There are a few instances in the book where we hear talk of John’s politics, in the later
    interviews in particular. Is there anything interesting to be said about the politics in the book, or more specifically about the relation of the individual to society? Does this reflect on the development of Coetzee’s oeuvre, in particular such later works as Elizabeth Costello and Diary of a Bad Year?

J.M. Coetzee: A Writer's Life:
The Making of Doubling the Point
and the Question of Biography

David Attwell
York University

Thursday
23 September 2010
11h00 - 12h00

Venue:
Molteno Yellow/Green Room (579)
Arts and Social Science Building
Stellenbosch University

Thomas Pringle: Poet of Abolition

David Attwell
York University

Tuesday
21 September 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

Light refreshments will be provided.

The Figure of the Stranger in Coleridge

David Simpson
University of California, Davis

Wednesday
15 September 2010
12h30 - 13h50

Venue: A116

Light refreshments will be provided.

Translating between India and Tanzania:
Sophia Mustafa's partial cosmopolitanism

Tina Steiner
Dept. of English, Stellenbosch

Tuesday
14 September 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

Light refreshments will be provided.

The Book Lounge

71 Roeland Street
Cape Town

17 - 21 May 2010
17h30 for 18h00

Thanks in part to the Franschhoek Literary Festival and the role they play in bringing so many wonderful authors to the Western Cape this time of year, we've got another fantastic line up next week.


Monday 17 May:

Ivan Vladislavic is rightly regarded as one of the giants of the South African literary scene, so we're thrilled to be hosting the launch of Flashback Hotel which brings back into print the short stories contained in his earlier collections, Missing Persons (for which he was awarded the Olive Schreiner Prize) and Propaganda by Monuments. Ivan will be in discussion with Associate Professor Carrol Clarkson from the English department at UCT.


Tuesday 18 May:

Japan-based French novelist Muriel Barbery will be joining us to discuss her bestselling novels Elegance of the Hedgehog and Gourmet Rhapsody. Elegance of the Hedgehog topped the bestseller list in France for 30 weeks and was reprinted 50 times! The English translation has been a bestselling phenomenon both here and abroad. Muriel will be in discussion with our own bestselling novelist, Lauren Beukes, whose second novel, Zoo City will be released in the next week or two.


Wednesday 19 May:

In partnership with the Africa Centre, we welcome the poets of Badilisha to The Book Lounge. croc E moses, Kwame Dawes, D'bi Young and Anis Mojgani will be regaling us with their rhymes and rhythms from around the world, just before appearing at the Badilisha Poetry Poetry X-Change proper over the weekend.


Thursday 20 May:

The second edition of How 2 Help Cape Town: A Guide to Worthwhile Causes has finally been produced and we're proud to host the launch of this fantastic book put together by Rebecca Hickman. How 2 Help explores some of the wonderful voluntary projects in Cape Town and aims to increase awareness of the incredible work happening in the area and to encourage people to get more involved. While money is, of course, important to these initiatives, giving a little of our time and love is often far more valuable. The guide features the stories behind 46 worthwhile and sustainable local projects, ways to help the different projects and a grid which helps you indentify which projects reflect your interests. All publisher profits from the sale of the book go to projects highlighted in the guide and we'll be donating 10% of sales at the launch to the projects as well.


Vrydag 21 Mei:

Ingrid Winterbach is een van die mees bekroonde skrywers in Afrikaans, en 'n nuwe roman van haar pen is altyd 'n gebeurtenis. Haar nuutste is getitel Die Benederyk, en is 'n kyk na die verhouding tussen twee broers, die een waarvan afgedwaal het van die reguit pad, en die ander besig is om in die kunswêreld te verswelg. Dis deels aangrypende verslag oor rampspoed, en deels uitbundige burleske. Ingrid sal in gesprek wees met Professor Joan Hambidge van UCT.

(We are launching Ingrid Winterbach's latest novel in Afrikaans, Die Benederyk.)


All events are scheduled at 5:30 for 6:00pm.

Please RSVP to either booklounge@gmail.com, or to 021 462 2425, should you wish to attend any of the above events.

And as usual, should you be interested in any of the above books (or any others), but can't make your way to shop, we will gladly post the book to you - please contact us to enquire.

Hope to see you here!

 

The Book Lounge
71 Roeland St
Cape Town
Tel: 021 462 2425
booklounge@gmail.com
www.booklounge.co.za
Mon-Fri: 0830-1930
Sat: 0930-1800
Sun: 1000-1600

Immigration and Autobiography:
J.M. Coetzee's Summertime

Donald Powers

Tuesday
11 May 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

No family, no community, no homeland:
Summertime, extraterritoriality and linguistic unsettlement

 

Maria Lopez
University of Córdoba

Wednesday
5 May 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

English Research Forum Postgraduate Study Afternoon: Science and Literature

Peter Johnston
Chris Daley

27 April 2010
14h00 - 16h00

Royal Holloway, London

The next ERF Study Afternoon will take place on Tuesday, 27th April 2010, in the boardroom of Royal Holloway's building at 2 Gower Street, London, WC1, from 2-4 pm.

The papers for the afternoon are as follows:

Peter Johnston (Royal Holloway): ' "95% of the villages we wiped off the map were never on it": Complex numbers in JM Coetzee's The Vietnam Project and Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless'

Chris Daley (University of Westminster): 'Technology, Ecology, Apocalypse: John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids and John Christopher's The Death of Grass'


For further information, please see our blog or visit:

http://royalholloway.academia.edu/PeterJohnston/Talks


As usual, refreshments will be provided, and we hope to see you there!

Best Wishes,

The ERF Committee

Shakespeare's Perversion

Dr Natasha Distiller

Tuesday
13 April 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

Tea, coffee and a light lunch will be provided.

The Cape & The Cosmopolitan:
Reading Zoë Wicomb

Dorothy Driver (Adelaide)
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Kent)

08-10 April 2010

University of Stellenbosch

Convenors: Meg Samuelson (Stellenbosch) and Kai Easton (SOAS)

For more details:
http://sun025.sun.ac.za/portal/page/portal/Arts/Departments/english/news_activities/Tab

K and the Man:
Life & Times of Michael K
and Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Matthew Kalil

Tuesday
30 March 2010
13h00 - 14h00

Venue: A116

Matthew Kalil has an MA in Screenwriting from the UK, and has spent the last few years directing and writing independent short films, feature films and television shows, as well as exploring an interest in video art. He has also been lecturing at various institutions including the University of Cape Town, AFDA Film School and TISH at New York University. His projects and collaborations have been exhibited, screened and broadcast in Denmark, Canada, France, New Zealand, America, Thailand, Sweden, Morocco and South Africa. His work often explores themes relating to political and environmental issues, as well as aspects of popular culture and identity in contemporary society.

He has received various funding and awards from institutes such as The Commonwealth Scholarship, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts, The National Arts Council, The South African Screenwriting Institute and The National Film and Video Foundation.

In 2005 he spearheaded the creation of the Amarabella Township Film Festival, screening and making films in Cape Town’s informal settlements. He is currently developing two feature film scripts and is taking his solo play The Way Out to Grahamstown this year. Matthew has appeared as an actor in various short films, adverts and a feature film as well as performing at the National Arts Festival in 2009. Matthew’s other writing projects include his series of children’s books, the first of which was published in 2009 entitled Helga’s Big Splash.

Forgiveness, History, Narrative:
W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

Jakob Lothe (Oslo)

Monday
15 March 2010
13:00 – 14:00

Venue: A116

Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided.

RSVP for catering purposes to mbongiseni.buthelezi@uct.ac.za or hedley.twidle@uct.ac.za

Jakob Lothe is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo. His books include Conrad’s Narrative Method (Oxford, 1989) and Narrative in Fiction and Film (Oxford, 2000). The author of numerous essays, he has edited or co-edited several volumes, including Franz Kafka: Zur ethischen und aesthetischen Rechtfertigung (co-edited with Beatrice Sandberg, Rombach Verlag, 2002), The Art of Brevity (University of South Carolina Press, 2004), Literary Landscapes (co-edited with Attie de Lange, Gail Fincham, and Jeremy Hawthorn, Palgrave, 2008), and Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (co-edited with Jeremy Hawthorn and James Phelan, Ohio State University Press, 2008). In 2005-2006 he was the leader of the research project “Narrative Theory and Analysis” at the Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo.

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The Opening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

Jeremy Hawthorn (Trondheim)

Tuesday
9 March 2010
13:00 – 14:00

Venue: A116

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Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided.

RSVP for catering purposes to mbongiseni.buthelezi@uct.ac.za or hedley.twidle@uct.ac.za

Jeremy Hawthorn has been Professor of Modern British Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, since 1981. His book Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad – his third monograph on the author – was published in 2007. He has edited Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes and The Shadow-Line for Oxford World’s Classics (both 2003). The fourth edition of his A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory appeared in 2000, and the sixth edition of his textbook Studying the Novel will appear in 2010.

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