South African Cultural Studies A Safundi Reader on Media, Contexts, and Identities, 1999–2024

Introduction
Christopher J. Lee

Section I: Cultural Figures and Approaches

1. Soaring on the Wings of Pride: Martin Luther King Jr. and the “New” South Africa (2004)

Lewis V. Baldwin

2. Oprah in South Africa: The Politics of Coevalness and the Creation of a Black Public Sphere (2007)

Zine Magubane

3. The Transnational Circulation of Dissent: Olive Schreiner and the Colonial Counter-flows of Unitarian Freethinking (2013)

Simon Lewis

4. The Political and Intellectual World of Bernard Makhosozwe Magubane (1930–2013) (2015)

Ntongela Masilela

5. Visions of Tsafendas: Literary Biography and the Limits of “Research” (2015)

Hedley Twidle

6. Gaining Currency: Confession, Comedy, and the Economics of Racial Ambiguity in Trevor Noah's Born a Crime (2021)

Kenton Butcher

Section II: Photography

7. Resistance, Memory, and Hope: The Photographic Art of Peter Magubane (2005)

Paul Von Blum

8. Zanele Muholi's Intimate Archive: Photography and Post-Apartheid Lesbian Lives (2010)

Kylie Thomas

9. Being (2010)

Zanele Muholi

10. Santu Mofokeng: Alternative Ways of Seeing (1996–2013) (2014)

Annabelle Wienand

11. Reframing the Afrikaner Subject: The Visual Grammar of David Goldblatt and Roelof van Wyk (2014)

Liese van der Watt

Section III: Music

12. Re-collecting the Musical Politics of John and Nokutela Dube (2012)

Tsitsi Jaji

13. Part II: Zef/Poor White Kitsch Chique: Die Antwoord's Comedy of Degradation (2012)

Anton Krueger

14. The South African Life and Afterlife of Jim Reeves (2014)

Michael Titlestad

15. A Marriage of Inconvenience: Miriam Makeba’s Relationship with Stokely Carmichael and Her Music Career in the United States (2016)

Tyler Fleming

16. Rodriguez, Apartheid, and Censorship: Cold Facts, and Fiction (2021)

Michael Drewett

Section IV: Sexualities

17. Caster Semenya: Gods and Monsters (2010)

Brenna Munro

18. A Peculiar Place for a Feminist? The New South African Woman, True Love magazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile (2016)

Pumla Dineo Gqola

19. Queer Politics and Intersectionality in South Africa (2017)

Nadia Davids and Zethu Matebeni

20. The Gender-Apartheid Analogy in the Transnational Feminist Imaginary: Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, 1972–2002 (2018)

Ana Stevenson

21. Yearning for Rootedness in a Femicidal Landscape (2021)

Grace A. Musila

Section V: Film

22. Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Networks and the Production of Come Back, Africa (2015)

Frankie Nicole Weaver

23. The D Is Silent: Django Unchained and the African American West (2015)

Michael K. Johnson

24. “Zones of Indistinction” and Visions of Post-Reconciliation South Africa in District 9 (2017)

Aghogho Akpome

25. Between the World and Wakanda (2019)

Carli Coetzee

26. Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing and the Cultural Boycott of Apartheid South Africa (2019)

Dylan Valley

Section VI: Cultural Landscapes

27. A Taste for Strife; Or, Spur in the South African Imaginary (2015)

Nick Mulgrew

28. The Karoo and Eco-Inflections of Fracking: Preliminary Notes on Literary Imagination (2017)

Philip Aghoghovwia

29. Uncertain Objects and Ethnographic Possibilities: Thinking Through the Smithsonian-Universal African Expedition (2020)

Alírio Karina

30. This Is the Place: Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria: Monuments to Settler Constructions of History, Race, and Religion (2021)

Cynthia Culver Prescott, Nathan Rees, and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

31. Contradictory Excessiveness: Abandoned Trolleys in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2021)

David Reiersgord

Biography

Christopher J. Lee has published ten books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019), Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of Safundi.

Andrew Offenburger is Associate Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 (2019), and is Co-Editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond. He is the Founding Editor of Safundi.