• Womanisme dans Crepuscule du tourment : melancolie de Leonora Miano 

  Tonleu, Madeleine; De Beer, Anna-Marie; Snyman, Elisabeth (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2022-10-26)

  In this article we examine the notion of womanism as portrayed in the 2016 novel Crépuscule du tourment: Mélancolie (Twilight of Torment: Melancholy) by the Franco-Cameroonian author Léonora Miano. We explore how four ...
• Folie et identite feminine postcoloniale dans La folie et la mort de Ken Bugul 

  Tonleu, Madeleine (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)

  In this article, I explore the question of madness and feminism as presented by Ken Bugul in La folie et la mort (2000). Madness in this novel is firstly analysed as a socio-political crisis caused by, among other things, ...
• L’expansion de l’anglais : une menace pour la francophonie universitaire? 

  Tirvassen, Rada (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa (AFSSA), 2020-10)

  There is a belief that Francophone institutions and organisations are powerless to counter the attraction of academics towards the English language. According to many Francophone decisionmakers, the expansion of the ...
• Grenzorte und Grenzdialektik in Lutz Seilers Kruso 

  Muhr, Stephan (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2019)

  Please read abstract in article.
• Teaching grammar through literature in foreign language learning with German as an example 

  Weber, Angelika (University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2018)

  Learning a language’s grammar is frequently experienced as a complicated, abstract and often boring process. To alleviate this situation, scholars like Harald Weinrich advocate the use of literature in grammar teaching and ...
• How Spanish is learnt matters : university students’ use of language learning strategies 

  Lancho Perea, Luis Andrés (Routledge, 2019)

  The study explored how Spanish is learnt at a South African university by analysing students’ self-reports on the use of language learning strategies. A mixed methods design was used. Considering that learning a foreign ...
• Interkulturelles Lernen im südafrikanischen DaF-Unterricht : Eine Studie 

  Weber, Angelika (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)

  The call to transform South African university curricula necessitates revisiting possibilities and perspectives, also in teaching German as a foreign language. This article demonstrates how intercultural learning can ...
• Wissenschaftliches Gedächtnis als Erinnerungskultur : Zwei Fallstudien zum Kolonialkrieg in Namibia 

  Muhr, Stephan (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2018)

  This contribution is based on the premise that remembering as representation of the past is always also the (re-)construction of reality and that the same applies to scientific memory. The generation of historical and ...
• Deconstructing and reinventing the concept of multilingualism : a case study of the Mauritian sociolinguistic landscape 

  Tirvassen, Rada; Ramasawmy, Shalini Jagambal (University of Stellenbosch. Department of General Linguistics, 2017)

  This article aims at deconstructing the conception of multilingualism developed in mainstream sociolinguistics by critically examining the assumptions underlying this trend of research, which is grounded in the scholarship ...
• World Englishes et français régionaux : so different ou les limites de la théorisation en sciences du langage? 

  Tirvassen, Rada (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2017)

  The starting point of this article is that sociolinguistics and in fact any social science should acknowledge that there are different ways of constructing knowledge regarding human behaviour in society and that each of ...
• La saison des ertes » dans L'aine des orphelins de Tierno Monenembo 

  De Beer, Anna-Marie (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2016)

  When a group of African intellectuals undertake a collective journey to Rwanda four years after the genocide against the Tutsis, Tierno Monénembo writes his narrative, L'aîné des orphelins, from the point of view of Faustin, ...
• Interroger les fondements des travaux consacrés aux français régionaux 

  Tirvassen, Rada (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2016)

  This article analyses how studies on regional Frenches identify the phenomenon studied and how knowledge is elaborated. It addresses the issue of the relationship between ideological choices and the theoretical and ...
• The ill legitimacies of the modern age : Carl Schmitt and Hans Blumenberg in correspondence 

  Kistner, Ulrike (Southern African Association of German, 2016)

  In making the case for the public role of religion in post-modernity, post-secularism posits the translatability of the claims of religion into claims on the grounds of morality and rationality. While much scope is given ...
• Wo ist die Grenze? Begriffs- und problemgeschichtliche kritik 

  Muhr, Stephan (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2016)

  Current discussions about borders often do not take into account what Hegel already developed as a totalizing dialectics of the boundary: Concepts as de-markations include not only the delimited, the ‘de-fin-ed’, but ...
• Teaching French as a foreign language in South Africa : incorporating the chanson africaine francophone 

  Rust, Willemien R.; De Beer, Anna-Marie; Nagel, Lynette (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2015)

  L’ouverture croissante de l’Afrique du Sud sur l’Afrique francophone implique que les enseignants de FLE puissent renouveler les programmes d’enseignement de français afin de trouver une articulation plus étroite entre les ...
• Langues et États-nations dans les pays du Sud ou revoir les fondements théoriques de nos disciplines 

  Tirvassen, Rada (Association for French Studies in Southern Africa, 2015)

  At a time when social sciences are no longer beyond question and criticism, it is reasonable to believe that researchers must spend their resources not only on producing knowledge but also on examining the type of knowledge ...
• Die Auslotung des Menschenmöglichen : die Verschränkung von Sprache und Identität bei Hugo Loetscher 

  Grové, Waldo; Muhr, Stephan (AOSIS Open Journals, 2015-11-30)

  Over the course of his career as a writer, Swiss intellectual Hugo Loetscher developed a fragmentary body of ideas on the themes of language and identity respectively. In this article, it is shown that these two themes ...
• New names, translational subjectivities : (dis)location and (re)naming in NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names 

  Moji, Polo Belina (Routledge, 2015-05)

  NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names – shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2013 – is a novel in which the leitmotif of (re)naming associates the trope of migration to ...
• Fragmentierte Identität - fragmentierte Geschichte : der Apfel als Motiv in Herta Müllers Collagenband Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen und sein intertextueller Bezug zu einigen ihrer Prosawerke 

  Weber, Angelika (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)

  In Herta Muller's book of collages Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen, a number of themes can be identified. Stretching from the animal and plant world through seasons and snow to human beings like father and mother, ...
• Tschick und Sand : Zwei komplementäre Geschichten über Identität 

  Muhr, Stephan (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2015)

  The novels Tschick (2010) and Sand (2011) by Wolfgang Herrndorf are based on two complementary models of narrative identity which are analyzed by their respective processing of contingency. While in Tschick a relatively ...

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