Safundi

Safundi Published by Taylor & Francis from vol. 7, 2007. Click "See More..." to view the Editorial Board.

A peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal that analyses the United States and South Africa from an international, transnational, and/or comparative perspective. FOUNDING EDITOR
Andrew Offenburger, Yale University

EDITORS
Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Van der Vlies, Queen Mary, University of London

REVIEW EDITOR
Shane Graham, Utah State University

EDITORIAL BOARD

Azeem Badroodien, University of Stellenbosch
Louise Bethlehem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Derek Catsam, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Carrol Clarkson, University of Cape Town
Leigh Anne Duck, University of Memphis
Michele Elam, Stanford University
Norman Etherington, University of Western Australia
Rick Halpern, University of Toronto
Christopher J. Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University
Peter Limb, Michigan State University
Zine Magubane, Boston College
Lesley Marx, University of Cape Town
Pearl McHaney, Georgia State University
David Chioni Moore, Macalester College
Peter Rachleff, Macalester College
Steven Robins, University of Stellenbosch
Christopher Saunders, University of Cape Town
Renée Schatteman, Georgia State University
Robert Vinson, College of William and Mary
Jennifer Wenzel, University of Michigan
Luvuyo Wotshela, University of Fort Hare

First issue of 2018 out now! v19.1, a special issue titled "Transnational Networks of Gender and Race in South Africa an...
31/01/2018

First issue of 2018 out now! v19.1, a special issue titled "Transnational Networks of Gender and Race in South Africa and the United States", guest edited by Claire Cooke and Ana Stevenson, includes work on subjects including: Emily Hobhouse's international activism; transnational African Methodist Episcopal missionary networks; Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala's ideas of the nation; the career of Charlotte Maxeke; transnational 'sisterhood' and the activist left; and *Ms.* magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation.

06/03/2017

Safundi v.18.2 (April) out early! A special issue titled 'Sequins, Struggle & Self', guest edited by Nadia Davids and Bryce Lease, it features essays, interviews, and photo-essays on q***r politics and performance in the Western Cape. Contributors: Catherine Cole, Nadia Davids, April Sizemore-Barber, Bryce Lease, Madison Moore, Mark Gevisser, Zethu Matebeni, Siona O'Connell, and Glenton 'Liberty' Matthyse.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/jfwdjzr

18/01/2017

Starting the year well! SAFUNDI Volume 18.1 (January 2017) now online and shipped to subscribers. It features a roundtable on Mark Sanders's LEARNING ZULU, with contributions from Emily Apter, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Carli Coetzee, Jacob Dlamini, Rachael Gilmour and Ato Quayson, and a response by Mark Sanders; also essays by Robert Egar and Myra Ann Houser (on Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership, 1930), Philip Aghoghovwia (on the Karoo, fracking, and the literary imagination), Kirby Manià (on nature in Ivan Vladislavić's Johannesburg), and Aghogho Akpome (on visions of post-reconciliation South Africa in DISTRICT 9). Spread the word, and enjoy!
http://ow.ly/rJH530870W4

Volume 17.4 (October 2016) just out, featuring an interview with South African novelist Eben Venter and essays on: the a...
04/10/2016

Volume 17.4 (October 2016) just out, featuring an interview with South African novelist Eben Venter and essays on: the artist Dan Halter; vampire fictions set in Johannesburg; K.Sello Duiker and q***r futurity; AIDS and gender in the film *Yesterday*; apocalypticism in Smith Henderson; the history and nature of Canada-South Africa comparisons. Blood, meat, border-crossings, apocalypse.... material fit for the strangeness of this season. Enjoy! http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsaf20/17/4?nav=tocList

Hot on the heels of a fabulous 17.2 issue on affect and/in Africa, here's volume 17.3, a general issue with fascinating ...
16/06/2016

Hot on the heels of a fabulous 17.2 issue on affect and/in Africa, here's volume 17.3, a general issue with fascinating essays on: Richard Rive, Zoë Wicomb, and activism; teaching Toni Morrison in Charleston, SC: Miriam Makeba's marriage to Stokely Carmichael: and last but not least on Jan Smuts's dissertation on Walt Whitman...

Out soon! Special issue, ably guest edited.
01/06/2016

Out soon! Special issue, ably guest edited.

Look what's coming in v17.1, out imminently...
09/02/2016

Look what's coming in v17.1, out imminently...

17/12/2015

The final issue of SAFUNDI for 2015 (vol. 16, no. 4) is now out. It includes essays on: international norms and the ending of apartheid; Tsafendas, literary biography, and the archive; Hugh Tracey, ethnography, and African music; representations of Marikana and its aftermath in contemporary visual art; violence and desire in the art of Mlu Zondi, Zanele Muholi, and Makhosazana Xaba; and trans-cultural and oceanic identities in the work of Lindsey Collen. Also: reviews of books about Arthur Ashe and Civil Rights, American Jews and Apartheid, and Govan Mbeki and the ANCYL.

In Memoriam Mark Behr, this interview from 2010/11, free to view until March 2016.
05/12/2015

In Memoriam Mark Behr, this interview from 2010/11, free to view until March 2016.

Mark Behr Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies Print Email Tweet Share Mark Behr, the Tanzanian-born South African novelist—author of The Smell of Apples (1995, originally published in Afrikaans as Die reuk van appels, 1993), Embrace (2000) and Kings of the Water (2009)—died su…

A little late, but it's out: a fantastic volume 16.3, guest edited by Dana Phillips, featuring a roundtable of articles ...
27/09/2015

A little late, but it's out: a fantastic volume 16.3, guest edited by Dana Phillips, featuring a roundtable of articles and responses to DJANGO UNCHAINED and the idea of the 'global Western', with essays by Michael K. Johnson, Neil Campbell, Hollis Robbins, and Johannes Fehrle, and responses from Lily Saint, Erica L. Ball, Veronica Fitzpatrick, Javier O'Neil-Ortiz, and Andrew Offenburger… Also a great essay by Nick Mulgrew on the South African restaurant chain SPUR and its iconography… and a review by Neville Hoad of the Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela.

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsaf20/16/3

Recently published: v16.2, featuring Hermann Wittenberg on Coetzee in Hollywood, Julia Martin on Gary Snyder, Frankie We...
05/06/2015

Recently published: v16.2, featuring Hermann Wittenberg on Coetzee in Hollywood, Julia Martin on Gary Snyder, Frankie Weaver on anti-apartheid solidarity networks, Phoenix Alexander on Lauren Beukes, Lara Atkin on Brett Bailey and nineteenth-century practices of ethnographic display/spectacle, and a roundtable tribute to the late Bernard Magubane, featuring Martin Legassick, Zine Magubane, Ntongela Masilela, Sifiso Ndlovu, and Tyler Fleming. Plus book reviews!

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsaf20/16/2 #/tic/rsaf20/current

03/03/2015

Gearing up for v16.2 (April), to include an essay on Coetzee's sojourn in Hollywood, a reappraisal of the anti-apartheid networks involved with the film COME BACK, AFRICA, and articles on Gary Snyder's mountains, Lauren Beukes' digital everywhere, and Brett Bailey's exhibited bodies…. watch this space!

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