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(Routledge, 2018)This article focuses on how the black body, particularly black women’s hair, is represented in advertisements for hair relaxers published in True Love, a South African magazine directed at black women. Using qualitative ...
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(Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis, 2010-07)This article highlights the role of sexual orientation in the social transmutation of space, thereby illustrating how certain landscapes, generally characterised by heteronormativity, are queered by cultural phenomena ...
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(University of Birmingham, 2012-12)‘Fine artists, and those given to enjoyment and criticism of visual arts ... are seen as exponents of the trained eye. They ... pretend to know how to look, and how to draw the highest semiological and visual satisfaction ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-03)This article engages with the theoretical challenges posed by what I call – in a non-derogatory sense – the philistine tendency of current decolonization struggles in South Africa, spearheaded by students at tertiary ...
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(Routledge, 2024)While sight and hearing have been privileged in the philosophical formulation of aesthetics, the significance of touch to the experience of art has not enjoyed much attention at all. In order to displace sight and reinstate ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2016)Video games play a significant role in promulgating dualistic gender roles and prescribing sexual identities. Situated within the broad theoretical framework of postfeminism, this explorative study analyses the distinctive ...
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(AIM, 2023)Humans have been fascinated with the notion of submerging themselves in other spaces since antiquity, or even before. As the contemporary media landscape seeks to employ newer immersive practices, particularly in today’s ...
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(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2020)In his biography on Chesterton, the poet and journalist, William Richard Titterton (1876-1963) noted of his friend that he was always busy writing, and if he was writing, then he was drawing. He would write on any piece ...
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(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)In her collection of short stories, Intruders, Mohale Mashigo (2018) draws on popular culture as well as local cultural memories as invested in South African folktales, to conjure up a fantastical world in which spirituality ...
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