South Africa's Racial Past

Maylam, Paul

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“…They can serve also as an introduction, such as in Eyes of a Stranger (Wiederhorn 1981), Humongous (Lynch 1982), Mortuary (Avedis 1983), Evil Laugh (Brascia 1986), Blood Hook (Mallon 1986), or Return to Horror High (Froehlich 1987). Events can also lead to the emergence of death impulses and killer act justification, as in Prom Night (Lynch 1980), The House on Sorority Row (Rosman 1982), The Burning (Maylam 1982), The Mutilator (Cooper 1984), I Know What You Did Last Summer (Gillepsie 1997), or, more recently, in the spin-off series Scream (2015Scream ( -2019.…”

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“Experiencing Trauma”: Aesthetical, Sensational and Narratological Issues of Traumatic Representations in Slasher Horror Cinema

Groh

2023

Arts

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In the field of horror film studies, the question of trauma is generally related to the spectator’s experience. The trauma of images occurs in the context of socio-cultural actualization. The degree of violence involved in the images, either graphic or symbolic, implies an experience that marks the viewer. Trauma, in this way, acts as a sensitive degree of perception, the image being an event. We start from this theoretical point but decide to take as our object of study only films where the horrific experience is based on a figurative representation of trauma. Therefore, we want to detach ourselves from a symbolic reading of the horrific image, leaving aside the psychological implications of the image’s effect. We decide to adopt a phenomenological and enactive reading of the image in order to include our spectatorial sensations in the narrative and aesthetic analysis of the representations issues of trauma as a horrific experience. Thus, in our corpus, trauma does not intervene in the cognitive formation of the spectator but is built into the experience of the filmic corpse according to a visual and narrative continuity specific to the films. We designate two types of traumatic events that occur in the corpus films: Halloween II; Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. We try to understand the emergence of the traumatic feeling within the spectator and demonstrate that the trauma experienced by the viewer arises from the horrific experience specific to the aesthetic and narrative aims of the films, mirroring the symptoms and the wounds of the characters.

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“Experiencing Trauma”: Aesthetical, Sensational and Narratological Issues of Traumatic Representations in Slasher Horror Cinema

Groh

2023

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“…South Africa forms part of the geographical landscape within the continent of Africa. The country is infamous for its unique history of apartheid, which led to political oppression, racism, inequality and chastisement (Maylam 2017) along with suppression of embracing linguistic, cultural and religious diversity (Bornman 2006;Reagan 2001;Ruiters 2009). The commencement of the struggle towards democracy cannot be dated; however, the official demise of apartheid in South Africa began in 1994 with the election of the late former President Nelson Mandela (Coombes 2003).…”

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“…The years leading up to 1994 saw key events occurring in the country, such as various policy implementations, freedom fights and boycotts that moulded the climate that South Africa finds itself in 2021 (Maylam 2017). It is with this history and context in mind that this chapter needs to be understood.…”

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“…The colourful and difficult history of South Africa and her people is welldocumented to show the effects of the Western invasion and colonisation of the South African land and indigenous populace at the time Maylam 2017). South Africa's history of apartheid, which means apartness in Afrikaans (Kothari & Mehta 1984), is complex and multifaceted.…”

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Social determinants of health in non-communicable diseases prevention policies in South Africa

Rasesemola¹,

Mmusi-Phetoe²,

Havenga³

2023

Curationis

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Peer review declarationThe publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books'. The manuscript underwent an evaluation to compare the level of originality with other published works and was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review before publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the editor(s) or author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher, editor(s), and author(s). The publisher shared feedback on the similarity report and the reviewers' inputs with the manuscript's editor(s) or author(s) to improve the manuscript. Where the reviewers recommended revision and improvements, the editor(s) or author(s) responded adequately to such recommendations. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the book be published.

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“…South Africa is an instance of what Jorg Dürrschmidt and Graham Taylor (2007) term 'hotspots' of rapid economic, political, urban and cultural change, for it has experienced repeated transitions in a relatively short timespan (Feinstein, 2005;Lester et al, 2000: 311-322;Maylam, 2001). Dürrschmidt and Taylor (2007: vii, 6-7) describe their approach to investigating this as 'deep drillings' to produce: an analysis based on a patchwork of 'thick descriptions' of transition … to highlight the complexity of social change and … focus on the ways in which contemporary patterns of social changes are underpinned by the operation of complex, non-linear, dynamic processes.…”

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The Scriptural Economy, the Forbes Figuration and the Racial Order: Everyday Life in South Africa 1850–1930

Stanley

2015

Sociology

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Social change and large-scale transformations are as important to everyday life sociology as to macro sociology approaches. South Africa has been a ‘hotspot’ of change with a number of such transitions occurring in a condensed time-period, in particular regarding ‘race’ matters. A large South African family collection, concerning the Forbes family, is used to explore how the processes of change regarding the racial order can be analysed within an everyday sociology framework, focusing on the period 1850 to 1930. A range of documents throwing light on ‘the space of the day’, ‘the world and the word’ and other aspects of everyday experience are discussed.

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South Africa's Racial Past

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“Experiencing Trauma”: Aesthetical, Sensational and Narratological Issues of Traumatic Representations in Slasher Horror Cinema

“Experiencing Trauma”: Aesthetical, Sensational and Narratological Issues of Traumatic Representations in Slasher Horror Cinema

Social determinants of health in non-communicable diseases prevention policies in South Africa

The Scriptural Economy, the Forbes Figuration and the Racial Order: Everyday Life in South Africa 1850–1930

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