• Memorial museums and burial sites : Rwanda’s unfinished memory work 

  De Beer, Anna-Marie; Wolfe, Stephanie; Ndizeye, Omar (Sage, 2024)

  Memorialisation of those who died during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi has been an ongoing concern for both the Rwandan and non-Rwandan communities. The majority of the existing memorials were initially constructed ...
• Ambivalenzen namibischer Zugehörigkeit in Musikvideos von EES 

  Muhr, Stephan (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2023)

  Eric Sell, with his stage name and eponymous brand ‚EES,‘ is a German-Namibian musician and producer who creates various artistic styles and products in different media and languages. This article analyses selected music ...
• Hundemetaphern und posthumanistische subjekte in Marion Poschmanns Hundenovelle und Patrice Nganangs Hundezeiten 

  Tezokeng, Klaus; Njanjo, Burrhus (Southern African Association of German Studies, 2023-12)

  Dogs and animals at large have always triggered scientific debates, especially regarding their capabilities and how they frame humans’ self-perception and cultural representations. These nonhuman others also play a significant ...
• 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 ...
• Erzahlte umweltwahrnehmung in Dirk Flecks Roman Go! Die Ökodiktatur 

  Muhr, Stephan (Association for German Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)

  With respect to the fire on Kilimanjaro in 2020, the following article indicates that German media reporting on this incident was not only greatly influenced and affected by colonial imaginaries, but also propagated ...
• „Brand an Gottes Haus“ : ein kritischer blick auf die deutsche online-berichterstattung zum feuer auf dem kilimandscharo 2020 

  Ikobwa, James Meja (Association for German Studies in Southern Africa, 2022-12)

  With respect to the fire on Kilimanjaro in 2020, the following article indicates that German media reporting on this incident was not only greatly influenced and affected by colonial imaginaries, but also propagated ...
• 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, ...
• Changes over time in language learning strategy use by foreign language learners 

  Lancho Perea, Luis Andres (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)

  This study explores the reported changes over time of the use of language learning strategies based on periodic self-reports of undergraduates that studied Spanish as a foreign language for three years. The purpose was to ...
• 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 ...

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