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Exhibitions curated by Sharlene Khan

2022 
Interiorities, Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) Syyposium exhibition, The Point of Order, 28 September-2 October

2021
Afems 2021 Exhibition (online), co-curated with Nomusa Makhubu, 1-5 November

2020
Tactile Visions-Woven, Turbine Fair Art Special Project (online), 27 August-3 September

2019
Creating from the Epicentres of our Agency, co-curated with Zodwa Tutani for the African Feminism (Afems) Conference, The Point of Order Project Space, Johannesburg, 5-7 September

2018
The Mute Always Speak: A Performative Response and Voice/Over: A Shelley Barry Filmic Retrospective co-   curated with Zodwa Tutani, African Feminisms (Afems 2018) Conference, Rhodes University Fine Art Department, Makhanda, 27-29 September

2016
Reasons and its Discontents, His Majesty’s Asylum, Pop-up Gallery – 19 Hill Street, Makhanda, South Africa, Curators: Fouad Asfour and Sharlene Khan, 30 June-5 July

2013
Rememory, William Goodenough College, London, UK, 25 February-3 March, Curators: Sharlene Khan, Fouad Asfour and Imara Rolston

2012
Happily Never After, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, 2-27 July, Curator: Sharlene Khan

2008
Esikhaleni Spatial Practices, 1st Joburg Art Fringe exhibition, Africa Cultural Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-16 March, Official Joburg Art Fair event, Co-curator and co-coordinator (as part of Dead Revolutionaries Club) with Claudia Shneider

2004
The ID of South African Artists Exhibition – Coordinator and co-curator:  an exhibition of 108 South African artworks at the Fortis Circus Theatre in Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Holland, December 03 – April 04, Curators: Sharlene Khan, William Wells and Janine van den Ende 10 Years. 100 Artists (editor: Sophie Perryer) – one of 15 curators chosen for the exhibition-in-a-book concept initiated by Bell-Roberts Publishing, Cape Town, South Africa

Art on Our Mind

Art on our Mind is a NRF Thutuka funded research project that focuses on South African women-of-colour creatives, initiated by Prof. Sharlene Khan, visual artist and Associate Professor at the Visual Arts department at the Wits School of Arts. The research team is made up of under- and postgraduate student volunteers from the art department.

Art on our Mind aims to elevate the status and stature of South African women-of-colour creatives, and through them, inspire a new generation. The Art on our Mind research project aims to generate a public archive of primary information and documentation alongside existing resources.

Afems

African Feminisms (Afems) Conference is a yearly Humanities and Social Science African feminist conference hosted collaboratively by Rhodes University’s Prof Lynda Gichanda Spencer (and her UCAPI research project), based at the Department of Literary Studies in English, and Prof Sharlene Khan (with her Art on our Mind research project), from the Wits University Fine Art Department.

The conference has taken place in 2017 and 2018 at Rhodes University in Makhanda and at Wits University in Johannesburg in 2019, is scheduled to take place at the University of Cape Town and online in 2021, and returns to Rhodes University for its fifth year anniversary in 2022.

Afems provides a yearly platform for  ideas and current research by Humanities and Social Science students and established scholars, creatives and activists, particularly highlighting Rhodes University’s Departments of Literary Studies in English and Wits University’s Fine Arts collaborations around African feminist engagements in literature, popular culture, the visual arts, art history, performance and visual culture at large.

Afems Website

Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab

The Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab invites students from all years and departments to share experimental in-field practices through decolonial AestheSis dialogues with experienced practitioners. The Creative Lab challenges facilitators to reflect on their in-field experimental practices across their professional work: literature scholar/screen writer Prof Bhekizizwe Peterson; US American journalist/documentary filmmaker Jon Alpert; Argentine composer Laura Andel and Indian visual artist Vibha Galhotra; visual artist Dr Sharlene Khan and writer/editor Fouad Asfour.

Students from all years and departments are invited to share experimental in-field practices through decolonial AestheSis dialogues with experienced practitioners. Students will collectively experiment on their future (and experienced) professional practices and imagine creative methodologies in various spaces, including artistic practices in visual arts, music, drama and performance, radio and journalism, film and TV, creative writing, teaching methodologies, cultural activism, community work, language and publishing, and so on.

The Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab is based on selection through an application process. Students can be at any level of their undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The cost of the Creative Lab is R200 per student (any student not able to afford this fee can write to Dr Khan). Students who are chosen for the Creative Lab must be able to attend the full seven-day lab, from morning to evening sessions. Part of the challenge, and fun of this lab, will be to participate and be exposed to creativity in an inter-disciplinary manner.

Black Feminist Killjoy Reading Group

If you are interested in exploring fictional and non-fictional cultural practices of women killjoys of colour from around the globe – in order to think through our own lives, this reading group is for you. We meet every second Friday in the Department of Fine Art at Wits University. Friends from outside our department and field are most welcome (for the Rhodes University BFK group please email us for details as well). For readings email Prof Sharlene Khan: sharlene.khan@wits.ac.za

Solo Exhibitions

2018
When the moon waxes red, African Feminisms Conference (Afems 2018) Rhodes University Fine Art Department, Makhanda, 27-29 September         

2016
When the moon waxes red, Studiengalerie, Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt, Germany, 28-30 September
When the moon waxes red, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 19 February-1 May

2015
Post-apartheid Guernica and Daebu Lullaby (Residency exhibition), Gyeonggi Cultural Centre, Gyeonggi, South Korea, 17 July
Nervous Conditions, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 23 January

2013
Nervous Conditions, I Make Art, No Place, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 5 December

2011
Other Stories, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa, 31 March-30 April

2009
Other Stories, Right on the Rim Gallery, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 September-11 October
(B)lack and What I look like, What I feel like, Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, 26 March-15 May

2008
(B)lack, Association for the Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 10-23 March
What I look like, What I feel like, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa, 4-29 September

2007
(B)lack, KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA), Durban, South Africa, 2-21 October (catalogue)
Walking the Line, BAT Centre, Durban, South Africa, 5 – 27 October

2006
Previously Disadvantaged, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 August – 3 September (catalogue)

2004
Walking the Line, University of Witwatersrand Downstairs Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 3 September (catalogue)

2003
Two for One Rand, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 November-11 December

2001
Durban at Work, Master’s degree work, Kwa-Muhle Museum, Durban, South Africa, April-June

Group Exhibitions

2022
– When the moon waxes and When the moon wanes, 5th Casablanca Biennale, So Art Gallery, Casablanca,
Morocco, 18 November-17 December 2022, Curated by Selma Naguib

2021-2022   
– Post-Apartheid Guernica – Come Home: A Call, Live Performance by Sharlene Khan, Mokgabudi Amos
Letsoalo, Litho Nqai and Mandlakazi Zilwa, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 October

2022             
– Post-Apartheid Guernica, Sharlene Khan and Mokgabudi Amos Letsoalo, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 October 2021 – 30 January 2022

2020           
– Now-Now, Gallery 114, Curator: James Reed, Oregon, USA, 5-29 November, Curator: James Reed (catalogue)
– New World Order, Turbine Art Fair, 27 August – 2 September, Curator: Johan Thom
– Embodying Hir-Self, Latitudes Art Fair Online, Curator: Beathur Mgoza Baker, 17 August – September

2019              
– Present Passing: South by Southeast, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, 24 March-15 June, Curators: Patrick D. Flores and Natasha Becker (catalogue)

2018              
– Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive, Jordache Ellapen, Reshma Chhiba and Sharlene Khan, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 22 June-25 July
– Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive, Jordache Ellapen and Sharlene Khan, Point of Order Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 5-18 April

2017              
– When the moon waxes red, Thessaloniki Biennale, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece, 30 September-
14 January 2018
– Looking after Freedom, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 7-26 September, Curators: Nkule Mabaso and Rael Salley
– Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive, Jordache Ellapen, Reshma Chhiba and Sharlene Khan, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 15 August-3 September
– Looking after Freedom, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 23 May-23
June, Curators: Nkule Mabaso and Rael Salley

2016              
– Foundations and Futures – Celebrating 25 Years, Bag Factory (Fordsburg Artist) Studios, 28 October-12 December, Curator: Aysha Waja
– Reasons and its Discontents, His Majesty’s Asylum, Pop-up Gallery – 19 Hill Street, Makhanda, South Africa, 30 June-5 July, Curators: Fouad Asfour and Sharlene Khan

2015              
– Thupelo 30 Year Exhibtion/Auction, Provinence Auction House, Cape Town, South Africa, 12 November, Curator: Jill Trappler
– Two-person show with Mirielle Jefferson, Spring/break Art Show, New York, USA, 3-8 March, Curator: Natasha Becker

2014             
– Literary, Polokwane Art Museum, Polokwane, South Africa, 10 September-15 October, Curator: Amos Letsoalo
– ARTchipelago Artists Exhibition, Institut Francais Maurice, Mauritius, 20 June-7 July, Curator: Tiffany Thompson

2013            
– Rememory, William Goodenough College, London, UK, 25 February-3 March, Curators: Sharlene Khan, Fouad Asfour and Imara Rolston

2012             
– She Said No – a No-Peformance, Goldsmiths Art Department, London, UK, 11 December
– Happily Never After, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-27 July, Curator: Sharlene Khan
– Staff/Stuff, Unisa Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, 19 June-6 July, Curator: Lawrence Lemaoana

2011              
– It’s all Chinese to Me – How Abstract Can One Be?, After the Butcher, Berlin, Germany, 17 June-7 August, Curator: Eva Seufert
– Agter die Berge: The Joburg Fringe Video Berlin, Haus 19, Berlin, Germany, 26 May-11 June, Curators: Claudia Shneider and Christine Gruss
– Figures of Speech, ‘Beyond Languages Project’, Jozi Art Lab, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 February-6 March, Curators: Eva Seufert, Fouad Asfour, Claudia Shneider
– Samsara, Tathum Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 24 February-20 March, Curator: Selvin Naidoo
– Crossing Boundaries: Contemporary Art and Artists from South Africa, The Gallery – Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 26 January-5 March, Curators: Jochen Sokoly and Ortrud Mulder (catalogue)

2010              
– Samsara, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 26 November-13 February 2011, Curator: Selvin Naidoo
– Nud(g)e, Artspace, Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 May-30 June, Curator: Sotiris Moldovanos
– The New Order Beauty, Palette Art Gallery, Delhi, India, 25 January-28 February, Curator: Vibha Galhotra

2009              
– Art from Southern Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH Head Office, Eschborn, Germany, 12 November-February 2010, Curator: Karin Reinprecht
– Bring mir ein Gras vom Rand der Bildebene, Atelier Frankfurt, Germany, 5 June-8 July, Curators: Fouad Asfour and Saul Judd

2008              
– Urban Concerns, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden, 19 January-1 March, Curator: Veronica Wiman
– Gunshot Show, Afrika Cultural Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 January, Curator: Claudia Shneider
– Esikhaleni Spatial Practices, Africa Cultural Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-16 March, Curators: Dead Revolutionaries Club and Claudia Shneider
– Living Legacy, Kizo Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 1-30 September, Curators: Bongi Bengu and Nathi Gumede. (catalogue)
– Modern Fabrics, Bag Factory Artist’s Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 September-17 October, Curator: Nontobeka Ntombela
– Bring mir ein Gras vom Rand der Bildebene, Dioptic GmbH Weinheim, Germany, 17 October-30 March, Curator: Fouad Asfour and Dioptic GmbH

2007              
-The Hourglass Project: Personal Vocabulary, House Museum and Resource Centre of African American Art, Atlanta, USA, 15 July-9 September, Curator: Karen Comer Lowe. (catalogue)
– Gunshot Show, Biba Gallery, Smithfield, South Africa, 15 December-25 January, Curator: Claudia Shneider

2006
– MTN New Contemporaries, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 May-25 June, Curator: Khwezi Gule (catalogue)
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, Alliance Francaise, Paris, France, 17-20 January
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, Les Arts Deniers, Paris, France, 15 February-30 March

2005              
– Feb Group Show International 2005, Bayer ABS Limited Gallery, Gujerat, India, February-March, Curator: Vinod Patel and Alok Bal (catalogue)
– Take Me to the River, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa, 25 May-3 July, Curator: Vivienne Lassman (catalogue)
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, Migrationculturelles, Bordeaux, France, 21 September-22 October, Curator: Bruce Clark (catalogue)
– Les Arts De La Coexistence?, St. Eugene Crypt, Biarritz, France, 17 November-4 December
– South African Artists on Residency, Mairie Chateau, Pujols, France, 3-8 December

2004               
– The ID of South African Artists, Fortis Circus Theatre, Scheveningen, Holland, April, Curators: Janine Van Den Ende, William Wells, Sharlene Khan (catalogue)
– Community (Re)Production, Gallery Ancienne Couronne, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, 15 May, Curator: Hubert Dechant
– 10 Years, 100 Artists, Bell-Roberts Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 8-23 December

2003
– Thupelo International Workshop Exhibition, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, February
– Women’s Day Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 7-22 August, Curator: Phumzile Dlamini (catalogue)
– Open Studio, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2-7 November

2002               
– State of Being, Fordsburg Artists’ Studios, Johanneburg, South Africa, April (catalogue)
– Freedom -1001 Miniatures, Spaza Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 April, Curator: Andrew Lindsay
– Mail Art, Minds-I Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, June-July
– Heritage Day Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, September-October, Curator: Pat Khoza (catalogue)

2001                
– Unmasked, Crart Rd, Durban, South Africa, March-April, Curator: Gabi Ngcobo
– Ethwekeni, Bat Centre, Durban, South Africa, May-June, Curator: Gabi Ngcobo

2000              
– Malibongwe Ophezulu, African Art Centre, Durban, South Africa, Curator: Anthea Martin, August
– Heritage Day Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, September- October, Curators: Pat Khoza and Phumzile Dlamini

1999             
– Izikwepha Zethu, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, July, Curators: Pat Khoza and Phumzile Dlamini

1998               
– 5th Gopio International Visual Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, July-August

2022

Khan, S.; Asfour, F. and Skeyi-Tutani, Z (2022) ‘Black Feminist Killjoy Reading Group: Informal Reading Groups as Spaces for Epistemic Becoming’, Transformation in Higher Education, Volume 7 (0).
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2021

Khan, S. ‘Thinking Through Black Feminist Creative Theorisation through the Postcolonial Masquerades of South African Visual Artists Mary Sibande and Senzeni Marasela’, in Marco, D. Willoughby-Herard, T. and Zegeye, A. (eds.) Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five years since 1994, Africa World Press
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Khan, S. ‘A Sense of Belonging – Natasha Becker’s Black Feminist Radical Love Curatorial Practice and the Return of Communities’ in Richter, D and Reckitt, H. (eds). Feminist Curating Issue, OnCurating [online and print journal]
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Khan, S. ‘Imagining an African Press’, in Camps, Y, Moritz Grünke, M.; Pascale Obolo, P.; Pichler, M.; Tabapsi, P. (eds). Decolonizing Art Book Fairs: Publishing Practices from the South(s), Berlin: Afrikadaa and Mosaïques [online and print journal]
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Khan, S. ‘Unorthodox Autobiographies’ in Mabaso, N. and Mistry, J. (ed.) Decolonial Propositions, OnCurating, Issue 49 [online and print journal]
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2020

Khan, S. (ed.) Doing it for Daddy: Ten Years On… , Johannesburg: Pole Pole Press [Symposium Proceedings]

Khan, S; Ntombela, N; Makhubu, N; Mdluli, S; Mabaso, N and Skeyi-Tutani; Z. ‘Curating as World-Making – An Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Sharlene Khan, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Nkule Mabaso, Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani’, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Issue (1).
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Khan, S. ‘We-All-Fall-Down: Thinking Through Lines of Proximity and Ubuntu as Decolonizing Praxis in South African Museum Re-Presentations’, in Jang, S. (ed.) What Do Museums Change? Art and Democracy, Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, ISBN 978-89-6303-248-93600, pp 222-243.
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Khan, S. ‘When Love Chooses Us’, in Bettòlo, A. (ed.) Salon. pp.6-8, Italy: MuseGallery [print artist catalogue]
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2019

Khan, S. (ed.) When the moon waxes red: Negotiating Subjective Terrain as an ‘Inside-Outsider’, an ‘Outside- Insider’, Johannesburg: Pole Pole Press [print artist book] ISBN: 978-0-620-83817-7; Book launches: African Feminisms (Afems) Conference 2019.

Khan, S. ‘When Silences Speak: Gender Performativity in the Visual Practice of Reshma Chhiba’, in Ntombela, N. and Chhiba, R. (eds.), The Two Talking Yonis, Johannesburg, pps.51-71 [print artist book – ISBN: 978-0-620-82867-3].

2018

Khan, S and Asfour, F. ‘Whitespeak: How Race Works in South African Art Criticism Texts to Maintain the Arts as the Property of Whiteness’, Kraehe, A.M.; Gaztambide-Fernandez, R, Carpenter II, S.B. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, Cham: Palgrave McMillan/Springer International Publishing, pps:187-204 [print and digital book – ISBN: 978-3-319-65255-9, doi.org: 10.1007/978-3-319-65256-2].
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Khan, S. ‘Thinking through, talking back: creative theorisation as sites of praxis-theory’, Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, pp. Vol. 32:2. 1-10 [print and online].
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Khan, S. ‘Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Chika-Okeke Agulu, 2015, Duke University Press’, Journal of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume 4 (1), pps. 76-81 [print and online – doi: 10.1080/23277408.2018.1443622].
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2017

Khan, S. and Asfour, F. (eds.) I Make Art. Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan [print artist book – ISBN: 978-0-620-63754-1; Book launches: African Feminisms (Afems) Colloquium – Rhodes University, Makhanda, July 2017; Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, March 2018.
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Khan, S. ‘When the moon waxes red’, in Gosine, A. (ed.) Small Axe: Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Vol 21, No.2:53, July [print and online].

Diallo, A.; Khan, S.; Jayawardena, M.N. and Sarr, F. ‘Teaching to Empower’, ContemporaryAnd: Platform for International Art from African Perspectives, Special: Documenta 14, Print Edition No.7 &, Berlin, pg. 16-18.
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Khan, S. ‘Under the Influence… of ‘Covering Sarah: Exorcising the Trauma of Colonialism and Racism’. The Conversation [online]. March
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2016

Khan, S. ‘Highlights of 2016’. The Conversation [online]. November.
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Khan, S. ‘Under the Influence… of Berni Searle’s LULL’. The Conversation [online]. November.
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Khan, S. (2016). ‘Under the Influence…of Dumile Feni’s African Guernica’, The Conversation [online]. 7 September.
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Khan. S. and Pienaar, H. ‘The Removal of Art at UCT: Interview with Sharlene Khan’. Litnet [online]. 28 April.
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Khan, S. ‘Videokunst Forderpreis Bremen 2016: Eight Questions for Sharlene Khan’. Bremen: Kusthalle Bremen.
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2015

Khan, S. ‘I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality’, Reconstruction [Electronic], Vol. 15(1).
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Khan, S. ‘Ecologies of the Visual, Economies of Profit’, exhibition catalogue for Indian artist Vibha Galhotra’s exhibition Absur-City-Pity-Dity at Jack Shainmain Gallery, New York, October 2015. [print exhibition catalogue]

Khan, S. 2015. Postcolonial Masquerading: A Critical Analysis of the Masquerading Strategies of South African Visual Artists Anton Kannemeyer, Tracey Rose, Senzeni Marasela, Nandipha Mntambo and Mary Sibande. Unpublished thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Goldsmiths, University of London. London.
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Khan, S. ‘Speaking Things into Being as if They Were: Visualising the Unseen in the Creative Practice of Odun Orimolade’ [unpublished article].

Khan, S. ‘Episodes of Happening: Eco-conceptualism in the Artwork of Vibha Galhotra’ [unpublished article]

2014

Khan, S. ‘Speaking Truth to Power: Censorship and Critical Creativity in South Africa’, in Petresin-Bachelez, N.,Bobin, V. and Silva, B. (eds.) Manifesta Journal #17: Future(s) of Cohabitation, Amsterdam: Manifesta Foundation, pp. 59-63 [print and online arts journal].

2012

Khan, S. ‘Who am I? Portrait of the life and art of Dumile Feni, Review of documentary Zwelidumile (dir. Ramadan Suleman)’, Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies, Vol. 3(1), pp. 100-105 [print].

Khan, S. ‘‘Mam-Winnie’: Representations of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the visual artworks of Sue Williamson, Bongi Bengu and Senzeni Marasela’ [unpublished paper].

Khan, S. ‘Becoming – The Art of Everyday Performativity’ in Stemburger, C.M. (ed.) Alterating Conditions: Performing Performance Art in South Africa, exhibition catalogue, Vienna: artandtheory.net, pp. 16-24 [print exhibition catalogue].

Khan, S. ‘There He Built an Altar to the Lord and Called on the Name of the Lord’ in Bila, V. and Waller, M. (eds.) Authentic Woodcarver, Polokwane: Timbila and Polokwane Art Museum, pp. 33-49 [print book].
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2011

Khan, S. ‘Behind Gopal Jayaraman’, Gopal J. Website [online website].
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Khan, S. ‘But What’s All Dis Here Talkin ‘Bout?’, Artthrob, March [online].

2010

Khan, S. (ed.) What I look like, What I feel like. Johannesburg: Sharlene Khan [print artist book – ISBN: 978-0-620-46450-5].
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2009

Khan, S. ‘Olly Molly’, Ecofashion World Blog, [online] 27 May.
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Khan, S. ‘From the Earth to the Moon’, Ecofashion World Blog, [online] 14 April.
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Khan, S. ‘Gatekeeping Africa’, Springerin, Vienna, No. 1/2009, “Art on Demand” [print].
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2007

Khan, S. ‘Gatekeeping Africa’, Artlink, Vol 27 (2): June, Australia [print].
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Khan, S. ‘Mokgabudi Amos Letsoalo’, Double 07, exhibition catalogue, Polokwane: Polokwane Art Museum [print exhibition catalogue].
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2006

Khan, S. ‘Aluta Continua: Doing it for Daddy’, Art South Africa, Vol 4(3), April, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town [print and online].

Khan, S. A Critical Analysis of the Iconography of Six HIV/Aids Murals from Durban and Johannesburg, in terms of Gender, Race and Class. Unpublished research report submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master in Fine Arts. University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg.
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2004

Khan, S. ‘Curatorial Statement: Sharlene Khan’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town, 13-14 [print book – ISBN: 1868-729-877).
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Khan, S. ‘Zama Dunywa’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 102-105.
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Khan, S. ‘Rookeya Gardee’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell- Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 118-121.
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Khan, S. ‘Gabisile Nkosi’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell- Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 278-281.
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Khan, S. ‘Sophie Peters’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 286-289.
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Khan, S. ‘Berni Searle’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 334-337.
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Khan, S. ‘Usha Seejarim’, in Perryer, S. (ed.) 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell-Roberts Publishing: Cape Town. 338-341.
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Khan, S. ‘The African Label’, Bidoun Magazine [print]

Khan, S. and Koloane, D. ‘Rethinking Identity’, The ID of South African Artists, exhibition catalogue, Van Den Ende: Holland [print exhibition catalogue].
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Khan, S. (ed.) The ID of South African Artists, Van Den Ende: Holland [print exhibition book].
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Khan, S. ‘Jug and Water’, Money Funnel. Claudia Shneider, Kunsterein Recklinghausen, Rupert Walser Gallery: Germany [print exhibition catalogue].
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2003

Khan, S. A Critical Analysis of the Depiction of Women in Murals in KwaZulu-Natal, Unpublished dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Masters of Arts in Fine Arts. University of Durban Westville, Durban.
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Selected artworks by Sharlene Khan

2021-

When the moon wanes

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2014-2022

Post-Apartheid Guernica

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2022-2020

I Make Art

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2009-2022

When the moon waxes

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2011-2022

Nervous Conditions

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2011-

The Bluest Eye (aka No Place)

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2011-

Re-

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2007-2009

What I look like, What I feel like

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1999-2011

“Previously Disadvantaged”

Edward (2008)
Mixed media on canvas

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Books written by Manori Neelika Jayawardane

Jayawardene, Manori (2023) Queering the nation, querying the history of Black portraiture: Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama as a healing ritual. Art Journal. 58.
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Jayawardene, Manori (2022) “This is not the correct history”: Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War. Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
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Jayawardane, Neelika & Lane, Carly (2018) Continental Drift: Black/Blak Art from South Africa and North Australia. Cairns Regional Gallery.
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Book chapters by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardene, Manori (2022) Institutional irresponsibility: How coverups at art institutions perpetuate gender-based violence. In Lesser Violence: Volume 1. Amie Soudien (Ed). Johannesburg: MaThoko’s Books. Pp. 141-169.
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Books featuring writing by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Smith, Ming et al (2020) Ming Smith, An Aperture Monograph. New York: Aperture.
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McGrew, Rebecca et al (2020) Todd Gray: Euclidean Gris Gris. Pomona College Museum of Art.
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Bhimji, Zarina (2018) Zarina Bhimji: Lead White. Heni Publishing.
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Muholi, Zanele et al (2018) Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness. New York: Aperture.
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Nunn, Cedric (2015) Unsettled. Wunderhorn.
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Journal articles written by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardane, Manori (2019) ‘The capacity-building-workshop-in-Africa hokum’^*, Journal of African Cultural Studies. 31(3): 276-280. DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2019.1630265

Other writing by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardene, Manori (2022) “Art and the Limits of ‘Awareness’ Politics: Reflections on Guantánamo, this year’s Berlin Biennale controversy, and the artworld’s tendency for shallow political consciousness.” Art Review. 11 Nov. 2022.
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Jayawardene, Manori (2020) “Ming Smith’s Photographic Tribute to August Wilson.” Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph. Aperture: 2020.
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Jayawardene, Manori (2019) “Fashioning an ‘Image Space’ in Apartheid South Africa: Afrapix Photographers’ Collective and Agency.” Extra – a publication of Antwerp’s FotoMuseum.
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Theses by Manori Neelika Jayawardene

Jayawardene, Manori (1999) “The escape artist”. MA Thesis. Iowa State University.
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Journal publications by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2022) In search of reciprocity: Feminist challenges in Posthumanist thinking–An intellectual meditation. Agenda. 36(1): 43-53.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2022) “Amid the Alien Corn – Stories of Indenture.” In Publication of  Oral History Association  of South Africa [OHASA, Dept of Arts and Culture, KZN; Edited by Dr Kogie Archary].

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2022) “Frescos Across the Firmament.” In English Academy Review. Review Essay on Siddharthiya Pillay’s Poetry Collection : Much Love, Light and Kindness and Immaterial Reflections. [Published : September 2022].

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2021) **Creative Essay: ** “The Shards of Memory – And the Mapping of Desire.’ English Academy Review. 38(1): 69-77.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2021) “Rosemary Gray in Conversation with Betty Govinden during the 2020 Madibaland World Literary Festival.” [on Ben Okri]. English Academy Review. 38(1): 97-106.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2020) The Arts in the time of pandemic. Agenda. 34(3): 148-153. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1783888.
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Govinden, Betty (2019) “Two oceans marathon” – women from the South. Agenda. 33(3): 34-41. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2019.1680258.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2018) “Women Doing History Differently.” African Perspectives of Research in Teaching and Learning. 2(1): 30-46.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2017) “Thinking Through,  Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Sites of Praxis-Theory” – A Creative Dialogue…” AGENDA : Empowering Women for Gender Equity, 30 July, 2018, pp. 109-118.  Submitted by Prof Sharlene Khan. Panel :  Collaboration: Professors Sharlene Khan, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Dr Yvette Abrahams,  Professor Neelika Jayawardane, Ms Siphokazi Jonas, & Dr Betty Govinden. From  African Feminisms Colloquium – “ ‘Six Mountains on her Back’ –  [Re] Thinking African Feminisms.”  At  Rhodes  University, 21-22 July 2017.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2017) “Gandhi – ‘Of the Earth, earthy’: A Critical View of Gandhi in South Africa.” English Academy Review. 34(1): 71-84.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2016) “The Notion of Authority in Tales of the Metric System.” In CURRENT WRITING – Reading and Reception in South Africa  [Special Issue on Coovadia], Vol 28, No 1, 2016, pp. 40–49; edited by Prof Ronit Frenkel [UJ]

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2015) Review Essay – Regarding Muslims – From Slavery to Post-apartheid, by Gabeba Baderoon. 2014. Wits University Press: Johannesburg.  In SAFUNDI – The Journal of South African and American Studies.  Vol 16, 2015, issue 2. pp. 237-241.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2014) Book Review of Reading Migration and Culture: The World of East Africa Indian Literature. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 26(1): 102-106. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2014.897823.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2011) A fire that blazed in the ocean–Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909-1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 29: 158-161.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2011) Remembering “Salisbury Island”. Yesterday & Today. 6: 53-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2009) Healing the wounds of history: South African Indian writing. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 21(1-2): 286-302. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2009.9678322.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2009) Claiming Pandita Ramabai in an Indian Christian diasporic location in the early 20th century: spelling out the fragments of a broken geography. Migration-challenge to religious identity. 2: 113-132.

Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam (2008) The Mahatma, the text and the critic—in South Africa. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. 13(2): 47-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2003) Aziz Hassim’s “The Lotus People”. Annual Review of Islam in South Africa 6. 60-62.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1998) ‘While she watered the morning glories’: evaluating the literary achievement of Gcina Mhlophe. African Literature Today. (21): 69-81.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1995) Reading Back: Images of God in Pauline Smith’s “The Little Karroo”. Journal of constructive theology. 1(1): 75-90.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (1994) Women-Searching in South Africa. Journal of theology for Southern Africa. 89: 3-3.

Co-edited Journal publications by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Amin, Nyna & Govinden, Betty (2014) Autobiographies, biographies and writing lives. Agenda. 28(1): 3-6.
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Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam & Kalpana Hiralal (2013) Special Issue: Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 1913 Satyagraha, and the Legacy of Passive Resistance.

Hofmeyr, Isabel & Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam (2008) Africa/India: Culture and Circulation in the Indian Ocean. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. 13(2): 5-15.
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Books by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2021) The Story of Senthamani 1923-2021 – Commemorative Centenary.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2015) 1913 Satyagraha Passive Resistance and Its Legacy. Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers & Distributors.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2010) Words on Water – Reflections on Recent Writing. Lap Publishing, Germany.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2008) Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press.

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2008) A Time of Memory reflections on recent South African Writings. Durban: Solo Collective.

Phiri, Isabel Apawo; Govinden, Devarakshanam & Nadar, Sarojini (Eds) (2002) Her Stories: Hidden Histories of Women of Faith in Africa. Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal: Cluster Publications.

Co-edited books by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

1913 Satyagraha, and the Legacy of Passive Resistance.  Govinden, Betty Devarakshanam & Kalpana Hiralal. Eds. Manohar: New Delhi, 2013.

Co-Editor :  Phiri, Isabel  Apawo, Devarakshanam Govinden and Sarojini Nadar [eds].  Herstories – Hidden Histories of  Women of Faith in Africa Cluster Publications: Pietermaritzburg, 2002. 

[Publication of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.] IBSN : 1-875053-33-6. Publication contains two  chapters  by D Govinden:

• “The Mother of African Freedom – The Contribution of Charlotte Maxeke to the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa.”

• “’Out of the Purdah Club’ – The Contribution of Kunwarani Lady Gunwati Singh  in Colonial Natal.”

Associate Editor [Member of the Research Team and one of the Associate Editors]: 2003. WOMEN WRITING AFRICA  –  THE SOUTHERN AFRICA REGION VOLUME 1. Feminist Press, New York. [Main Editors: Margaret Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford, & Nobantu Rasebotsa.] IBSN : 1—86814-394-5

Book chapters by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty & Pillay, Daisy (2022) “Learning through Object Inquiry about Raced Lives – Artful Self-narratives for enfleshing our scholarly selves as re-imagined acts of ‘Self’ Care and ‘Other’ Care.” In  Research in Life Writing [Edited by Lucy Bailey, Oklahoma State University, US].

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2022) Autobiographical Essay: Global Stories of Indenture [Invited to contribute]: Co-ordinated by Prof David Dabydeen, University of Warwick, UK. [Forthcoming]

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2021) “The Story of Pandita Ramabai, and her work among the Untouchable Castes in India.” In : The Meanings of Discipleship. Eds. Hayes and Cherry, London:SCM, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-334-06026-0. pp. 93-107. [Queens Foundation, Birmingham, UK.]

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2020) “Gandhi – of the Earth, earthy…” In   Engaging with the Mahatma : Multiple Perspectives. Eds. Prof Mala Pandurang, et al. Published by Gandhi Studies Centre, BMNC College, University of Mumbai. Pp. 16-34. 

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2020) “Biography as History – The Story of Indenture and Apartheid [The Story of a Grandmother]. In Labour, Law, and Wayward Lives: South Asian Migrations in Global and Comparative History. Ed.  Neilesh Bose,  University of Victoria, British Columbia. Published by Bloomsbury Press, London. Pp. 201-223.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2020) “ ‘The Cartography of Struggle’ in South African Theatre, with particular reference to the play, “Reocca Light”, by Ashwin Singh.” In Durban Dialogues Dissected – An Analysis of Ashwin Singh’s Plays. Editor:  Felicity Hand [University of Barcelona]. African  Sun Media: Stellenbosch.  2020. Pp.25-40.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2017) “Not Just an Object: Exploring Epistemological Vantages in Post-Colonial Thinking.” In  Pillay, Daisy, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan and Inbanathan Naicker [eds.  UKZN].  2017. Object Medleys – Interpretive Possibilities for Educational Research. Sense Publishers: Rotterdam.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2017) Key Lecture: “The World Upside Down – A View from the South.” In  Yearbook, Malmo Art Academy, University of Lund, Sweden. Pp. 548-555. [April 2017 – Visiting Lecturer].

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2014) Introduction in Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice: Five South African Plays. Ashwin Singh. Aurora Metro Books.

Amin, Nyna & Govinden, Devarakshanam (2012) Sari stories: Fragmentary images of ‘Indian woman’. In Was it something I wore? DRESS IDENTITY MATERIALITY. Relebohile Moletsane, Claudia Mitchell & Ann Smith (Eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pp. 323-340.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam (2009) Review of Allison Drew, Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting 1873–1936. Journal of Natal and Zulu History. 27: 85-87. 10.1080/02590123.2009.11964155.
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Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2002) ‘The Mother of African Freedom’– The Contribution of Charlotte Maxeke to the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa. In Her-stories: Hidden Histories of Women of Faith in Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster. Pp. 304-326.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2000) AGAINST AN AFRICAN SKY: COOLIE DOCTOR: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. In The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Essays in Criticism. A.L. McLeod (Ed). New Delhi: Sterling. Pp. 82.

Book Reviews and Back-Cover Blurbs by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2023) Back-Cover Blurb : Durban’s Casbah – Bunny Chows, Bolsheviks and Bioscopes.  By Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. UKZN Press.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2020) Book Reviews: In CREATIVE NETWORK : 50 Short Book Reviews [Weekly] for Creative Network [Online Journal of the School of Education, UKZN.] Editor : Dr Angela James and team. 2020 – 2021 [During COVID-19].

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2020) Back-Cover Blurb. Dr Rajie Tudge: Teaching  the Canna Bush. Published by J&B Printers, Durban.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2019) Back-Cover Blurb. Vasugi Singh. Bharatha-Natyam – An Ancient Dance Form – A Journey from India to South Africa. Launched : 25 March 2019.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2018) Review Essay. Time to Remember – Reflections of Women from the Black Consciousness Movement.  Edited by Sam Moodley.  [On request of Editor]

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2017) Review Essay. “Asherville–Springtown: Trenches of Civil Society.” Asherville – Springtown – People and Place,  by Hemant Singh and Pravin Ram. Post 2017.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2016) Review Essay.  Leading for Change – Race, Intimacy and Leadership on divided university campuses. Jonathan Jansen. [Unpublished. On request of author.]

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2015) Review Essay.  In Grace and Truth. Journal of  St Joseph’s Theological Institute, Cedara, 2016. Book Title: Garman, Anthea. 2015.  Antjie Krog and the Post-Apartheid Public Sphere – Speaking Poetry to Power.  UKZN Press:Pietermaritzburg. [Editor: Professor Sue Rakozy].

Book forwards by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (forthcoming) Foreword: Stories from Gledhow Sugar Mill – North Coast of KwaZulu Natal. By Bala Moodley.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2023) Foreword : Poems During Covid. By Sanabelle Ebrahim. DUT.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2022) Foreword: Sisters in The Struggle – Women of Indian Origin  in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle. Kalpana Hiralal [UKZN]. Published by UNISA Press: Pretoria. Volume 1; Volume 2 & Volume 3.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (date unknown) Foreword: Copy Boy – A Journey for Newsroom Gopher to Award-winning Editor. By Dennis Pather [Memoir].

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2019) Foreword: WOMANDLA  – A Collection of Women’s Voices. Edited by Shabnam Palesa Mohamed et al.     Second ‘Foreword’ by Gcina Mhlophe. 15 September 2019 [Launched].

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2017) Introduction: “A Critical Overview.”  Durban Dialogues, Indian Voice: Five South African Plays. By Ashwin Singh. Aurora Metro Books. Pp.13-15.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2016) Foreword: Desperation to Destiny – Finding God in your Journey of Healing and Growth.  By Stanley Arumugam. Reach Publishers. Durban. Pp. 7-8.

Theses by Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam (2000) Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women. Doctoral Thesis. University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Non-Peer reviewed publications by Betty Govinden

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2021) Short Tribute to Ronnie Govender in English Academy Newsletter.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2019) “The Poetry of The Soul.” [Poetry and Gandhi] On The South African Writers Circle Website.

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty (2019) Tribute to Nobandile Biko [Biko’s sister], 14 Nov 2019. [Published on SAHistoryOnline.]

Books written by Pumla Dineo Gqola:

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2022) Female Fear Factory: Gender and Patriarchy Under Racial Capitalism. Nigeria: Cassava Republic Press. ISBN 1913175154, 9781913175153.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2021) Miriam Tlali: Writing Freedom (Voices of Liberation). HSRC Press. ISBN: 978-0796925626.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2017) Reflecting Rogue – Inside The Mind Of A Feminist. South Africa: Jacana Media. ISBN: 978-1-920601-87-4.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2015) Rape: A South African Nightmare. Johannesburg: MF Books.
ISBN 192060152X, 9781920601522.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2013) A renegade called Simphiwe. South Africa: Jacana Media. ISBN: 978-1-920601-08-9.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2010) What Is Slavery To Me? – Postcolonial/Slave Memory In Post-Apartheid South Africa. South Africa: Wits University Press. ISBN: 978-1-86814-507-2.

Book chapters by Pumla Dineo Gqola

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2023) Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation. In Reading from the South: African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work. Charne Lavery & Sarah Nuttall (Eds). Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Pp. 199-208.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2021) Chapter 3 – A Playful But Also Very Serious Love Letter to Gabrielle Goliath. In Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon (Eds). Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Pp. 49-55.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2018) A peculiar place for a feminist? The New South African woman, True Love magazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile. In Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access. Helene Strauss, Sarah Olutola & Jessie Forsyth (Eds). Pp. 13-30.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2011) Through Zanele Muholi’s eyes: re/imagining ways of seeing Black lesbians. In African Sexualities: A Reader. Sylvia Tamale (Ed). Cape Town: Pambazuka Press. Pp. 622- 629.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2011) Unconquered and insubordinate: Embracing black feminist intellectual activist legacies. In Becoming worthy ancestors: Archive public deliberation and identity in South Africa. Xolela Mangcu (Ed). Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Pp. 67-88.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2009) Blackwomen’s Bodies as Battlegrounds in Black Consciousness Literature: Wayward Sex and (Interracial) Rape as Tropes in Staffrider, 1978-1982. In Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading the Black Body. Sandra Jackson, Fassil Demissie, & Michele Goodwin (Eds). UNISA Press. Pp.97-113.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2010) Negotiating Gender and Access to Knowledge Technology in the Urban Context. In Urban Diversity: Space, Culture, and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Mejgan Massoumi, Blair A Ruble, Pep Subiros, & Alison M Garland (Eds). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 123-144.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2008) Brutal Inheritances: Echoes, Negrophobia and Masculinist Violence. In Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa. S. Hassim, T. Kupe, & E. Worby (Eds.). Wits University Press. https://doi.org/10.18772/22008114877.18. Pp. 209-223.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) CHAPTER 2: ‘Like three tongues in one mouth’: Tracing the elusive lives of slave women in (slavocratic) South Africa. In Basus’iimbokodo, bawel’imilambo/ They remove boulders and cross rivers: Women in South African History. Nomboniso Gasa (Ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pp. 21-41.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) A woman cannot marry a boy: Rescue, spectacle and transitional Xhosa masculinities. From boys to men: social constructions of masculinity in contemporary society. T Shefer, K Ratele, A Strebel, N Shabalala & R Buikema (Eds). Cape Town: UCT Press. 145-159.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2005) A Question of Semantics? On Not Calling People Endangered. In Perspectives on Endangerment. Graham Huggan & Stephan Klasen (Eds).

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2004) Language and power, languages of power: A black woman’s journey through three South African universities. In Hear our Voices: Race, Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy. Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Zine Magubane (Eds). Pretoria: University of South Africa Press. Pp. 25-40.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2004) Forced to think: Innovation and womanist traditions in Sindiwe Magona’s wor(l)ds. In Sindiwe Magona: The First Decade. Siphokazi Koyana (Ed). University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. Pp.51-66.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) ‘Slaves don’t have opinions’: Inscriptions of Slave Bodies and the Denial of Agency in Rayda Jacobs’ The Slave Book. In Coloured by history, shaped by place: new perspectives on Coloured identities in Cape Town. Zimitri Erasmus (Ed). Cape Town: Kwela Books.

Journal articles by Pumla Dineo Gqola

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2023). 26 Religious Mapping, Epistemic Risk and Archival Adventure in Athambile Masola’s Ilifa Pumla Dineo Gqola i SHORT BIO ABSTRACT. African Journal of Gender and Religion. 29(1): 26-50. DOI: 10.36615/ajgr.v29i1.2320.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2021) Mona Eltahawy’s cartographies of feminist fury. Imbiza: Journal for African Writing. 2.1(1): 114-117.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2016) A peculiar place for a feminist? The New South African woman, True Love magazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile. Safundi. 17(2): 119-136. DOI:10.1080/17533171.2016.1178470
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2016) Intimate foreigners or violent neighbours? Thinking masculinity and post-apartheid xenophobic violence through film. Agenda. 30(2): 64-74. 10.1080/10130950.2016.1215625.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2011) Whirling worlds? Women’s poetry, feminist imagination and contemporary South African publics. Scrutiny2. 16(2): 5-11. DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2011.631823
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2010) Defining people: Analysing power, language and representation in metaphors of the New South Africa. Transformation. 47: 94-106.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2009) “The difficult task of normalizing freedom”: spectacular masculinities, Ndebele’s literary/cultural commentary and post-apartheid life. English in Africa. 36(1): 61-76.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) How the ‘cult of femininity’ and violent masculinities support endemic gender based violence in contemporary South Africa. African Identities. 5(1): 111-124. DOI: 10.1080/14725840701253894.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg. CCCB. “Challenges of urban diversity: Inclusive cities vs divided cities”. University of the Witwatersrand, 12-13 March 2007. Pp 17.
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Salo, Elaine & Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2006) Editorial: Subaltern sexualities. Feminist Africa. 6: 1-6.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2006) In defence and embrace of ourselves: black women intellectual activists, self-love and technological interventions. Foundation for the Empowerment of Women’s (FEW) black lesbian and bisexual conference. Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 5-8 August 2006. Pp 9.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2006) Bridging the divide between development goals, research and policy in developing countries. 1st International African conference on Gender, Transport and Development. Boardwalk Casino, Port Elizabeth, 2006.

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2005) Yindaba kaban’ u’ba ndilahl’ umlenze? Sexuality and Body Image. Agenda. 19(63): 3-9. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2005.9674559.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2005) Memory, diaspora and spiced bodies in motion: Berni Searle’s art. African Identities. 3(2): 123-138. DOI 10.1080/14725840500235365.
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Goniwe, Thembinkosi doctorate & Gqola, Pumla Dineo graduate (2005) A neglected heritage: the aesthetics of complex Black masculinities. Agenda. 19(63): 80-94.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) Defining people: Analysing power, language and representation in metaphors of the New South Africa. Transformation. 47.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) Contradictory Locations: Blackwomen and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa. Meridians. 2(1): 130-152.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) “Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity”: Reading Imoinda’s Body in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko or, the Royal Slave. English in Africa. 28(1): 105- 117.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) In search of female s/staffriders: Authority, gender and audience, 1978-1982. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 13(2): 31-41.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) Ufanele uqavile: Blackwomen, feminisms and postcoloniality in Africa. Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 16(50): 11-22.
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Yates, Kimberly; Gqola, Pumla Dineo & Ramphele, Mamphela (1998) This little bit of madness: Mamphela Ramphele on being black and transgressive. Agenda. 14(37): 90-95. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.1998.9675699.
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Theses by Pumla Dineo Gqola

Gqola, Pumla Dineo (1999) Black woman, you are on your own: Images of black women in Staffrider short stories, 1978-1982. Masters thesis. University of Cape Town.
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Publications and Conference Papers by Yvette Abrahams

2021

Abrahams, Y (2021) Bringing Water to Krotoa’s Gardens: Decolonisation as Direct Action. In D. Lewis & G. Baderoon (Eds.), Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Wits University Press. Pp. 274-283.
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2018

Abrahams, Yvette (2018) How Must I Explain to the Dolphins?: An Intersectional Approach to Theorizing the Epistemology of Climate Uncertainty. Environmental Ethics. 40(4): 389-404. DOI:10.5840/enviroethics201840436
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2016

Abrahams, Yvette (2016) “Thank you For Making Me Strong”: Sexuality, Gender and Environmental Spirituality Journal of Theology For Southern Africa June 2016 Special Issue: Sexuality in Africa. 155: 70-87.

2014

Abrahams, Yvette (2014) Knowledge For Power: Rethinking Climate Change, Energy And Gender In South Africa In Women and Climate Change Gender CC – Women For Climate Justice e.v.; pps. 38-42. 6.
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Abrahams, Yvette (2014) Moving Forward To Go Back: Doing Black Feminism In The Time Of Climate Change Agenda: Special Issue on Gender and Climate Change No. 101/28.3, pps. 45-53.
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Abrahams, Yvette With Liz MicDaid: Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme: Review 2014 Electricity Governance Initiative SA, Cape Town. 
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Abrahams, Yvette (2014) Half Of Nothing Is Still Nothing: Women And Climate Jobs For The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign, Alternative Information and Development Centre, Cape Town. 
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2012

Abrahams, Yvette (2012) True Beauty. Agenda. 26(4).
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Abrahams, Yvette (2012) with Martin, Brenda (ed.) Smart Electricity Planning: FastTracking Our Transition to A Healthy, Modern Affordable Electricity Supply For All EGI SA, Cape Town. 
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2011

Abrahams, Yvette & Mhlongo, Sibongile & Napo, Vernet (2011) A gendered analysis of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa: 2006 – 2010. Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 25(2): 71-79. DOI:10.1080/10130950.2011.575998
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Abrahams, Y., Omsis, K (2011) “My Tongue Softens On That Other Name”: Poetry, People, and Plants in Sarah Bartmann’s Natural World. In: Gordon-Chipembere, N. (eds) Representation and Black Womanhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. DOI:10.1057/9780230339262_3. Pp. 31-46.
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2010

Annecke, Wendy & Abrahams, Yvette & Mohlakoana, Nthabiseng (2010) Left out in the cold while the planet heats up: How can feminists contribute to climate change and energy debates and policy in South Africa today?. Agenda. 24. 36-45.
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Abrahams, Yvette (2008) “STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE PRICE OF BREAD! START A BAKERY!”: COLONIAL PATRIARCHY AS THE CAUSE OF CURRENT HIGH FOOD PRICES. Paper prepared for GETNET: Feminist Consultative Conference on Women and Socially Excluded Groups Bearing the Social Costs of The Economic and Social Crisis. Athlone, 30/31 October, 2008.
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2009

Abrahams, Yvette (2009) Plaiting Three Strands: Gender-Based Violence as a Cause of Global Warming. Paper prepared for DAC/HSRC Colloquium on Social Cohesion, 2009. Durban, 29-30 October, 2009.
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2007

Abrahams, Yvette (2007) “Ambiguity Is My Middle Name: A Research Diary” in Gasa, Nomboniso (ed.) “Besus’ imbokodo; Bawel’imilambo: South African Women in History HSRC Press, Pretoria, pp. 421- 453. 

Abrahams, Yvette (2007) The Khoekhoe Free Economy: A Model For The Gift In Vaughan, Genevieve (ed.) Women And The Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview Is Possible: pps. 217-221. 

2005

Abrahams, Yvette (2005) Gender and Locating Sarah Bartmann in the Present. In Democracy X: Marking the Present, Re-presenting the Past. Series: Imagined South Africa, Volume: 7. Andries Oliphant, Peter Delius & Lalou Meltzer (eds). Pp. 150-161.
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History Of The Western Cape Network On Violence Against Women, WCNVAW, Athlone. 

Abrahams, Yvette (2005) ‘Ambiguity is My Middle Name’: Teaching Sarah Bartmann in a Historical Context, in Mabokela, Reitumetse and Zine Magubane (eds.) Hear Our Voices: Race, Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy UNISA Press, Pretoria and Koninglijke Brill, Leiden.

2004

Abrahams, Yvette (2004) The Life And Times Of Sarah Bartmann: Locating this Biography in the Present in Oliphant, Andries (ed.) Democracy X, Iziko Museums, Cape Town. 

Abrahams, Yvette (2004) The Life And Times of Sarah Bartmann: An Educators’ Guide IHR, Bellville The Life And Times of Sarah Bartmann: A Learner’s Handbook Educator’s News, Vol. 8, No. 4; special insert own pagination (1-4). 8 

2003

Abrahams, Yvette (2003) Colonialism, dysfunction and disjuncture: Sarah Bartmann’s resistance (remix). Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 58: 12-26.
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2002

Abrahams, Yvette (2002) Colonialism, Dysfunction and Dysjuncture: Sarah Bartmann’s Resistance (Remix) in Agenda: African Feminisms Three, 17, No. 58; pps. 12-26. 

2001

Abrahams, Yvette (2001) Learning by doing. Notes towards the practice of womanist principles in the ‘new’ South Africa. Agenda. 50: 71-76.
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Abrahams, Yvette (2001) We’re Here Because We’re Here – Speaking African Womanism in Duncan, Norman and Pumla Gqola et al (eds.) Discourses on Difference, Discourse on Oppression Centre For Advanced Southern African Studies Cape Town; pps. 37-76. 

2000

Abrahams, Yvette (2000) WE’RE HERE BECAUSE WE’RE HERE… SPEAKING AFRICAN WOMANISM. Conference presentation for the Discourses on Difference and Oppression Conference. University of Venda, 19-22 July 2000.
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1998

Abrahams, Yvette (1998) Two Master Narratives and Nowhere to Go: The Semantics of Colouredness in H Wittenberg, G Baderoon and Y Steenkamp (eds) Inter Action: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Postgraduate Conference, Bellville: University of the Western Cape Press, 115-121. 

1997

Abrahams, Yvette (1997) The Great Long National Insult: ‘Science’, Sexuality and the Khoisan in the 18th and Early 19th Century. Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 13(32): 34-48.
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Abrahams, Yvette (1997) Images of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth Century Britain; in Pierson, R. Roach (ed) Empire, Colony, Nation: Critical Categories of Race and Gender Analysis Indiana University Press, Indiana; pps. 220-236.

1996

Abrahams, Yvette (1996) Disempowered to Consent: Sara Bartman and Khoisan Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony and Britain. South African Historical Journal. 35. 89-114.
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Abrahams, Yvette (1996) Was Eva Raped ? An Exercise In Speculative History Kronos:Journal Of Cape History, No. 23; pps. 3-21. 

1995

Abrahams, Yvette (1995)`Take Me To Your Leaders’: A Critique Of Kraal and Castle Kronos: Journal Of Cape History, No. 22, pps. 21-35. 

1994

Abrahams, Yvette (1994) Resistance, pacification and consciousness : a discussion of the historiography of Khoisan resistance from 1972 to 1993 and Khoisan resistance from 1652 to 1853. MA thesis. University of Cape Town.
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Selected reviews

Moncho-Maripane, Kgomotso (2020) Mamela Nyamza’s Pest control is a protest piece that is deeply personal. News24. June 29, 2020.
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Msimanga, Nondumiso (2020). Pest Control is a refusal to be fenced in. The Critter. June 28, 2020.
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Sassen, Robyn (2020) Don’t mess with Mamela. My View by Robyn Sassen and other writers. June 25, 2020.
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Moncho-Maripane, Kgomotso (2017) Mamela Nyamza’s De-Apart-Hate At Dance Umbrella. Huffington Post. Feb 23, 2017.
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Wren, Edward (2012) Mojisola Adebayo and Mamela Nyamza: I Stand Corrected. Total Theatre. Nov 24, 2012.
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