English Academy of Southern Africa

2017 International Conference

Decolonial Turns, Postcolonial Shiftsand Cultural Connections

Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaCape Town Hotel School, CPUT Granger Bay Campus Beach Road Mouille Point

6-8 September 2017

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Tuesday 5 September 201710.30 – 11.15 English Academy of Southern Africa, Meeting of the Council of the Academy (Tea will be served at 10.00)

11.15 – 13.00 English Academy of Southern Africa, Annual General Meeting

Lunch (13.00 – 14.00)

15.00 – 15.45 Registration

18.30 – 20.30 Cocktail Function • Welcome of Delegates: Rajendra Chetty • Message From the Patron of EASA: Pitika NtuliAwards: Geoffrey Haresnape – Thomas Pringle Award for ad hoc Reviews • Nick Mulgrew – Thomas Pringle Award for Short Story in Periodicals or Short PlayEdyth Bulbring – Percy FitzPatrick Prize for Youth LiteratureEntertainment: Renato Tomei

Wednesday 6 September 20178.00 Registration

Auditorium 9.00 – 9.15 Opening And Welcome – Rajendra Chettty

9.15-10.30 Panel Discussion: Decolonisation in Higher Education – Chairperson: Pitika Ntuli

Speaker 1 Kasturi Behari-Leak – HELTASA/UCT

Speaker 2 Harry Garuba – UCT

Speaker 3 Fetson Kalua – UNISA

TEA (10.30 – 11.00)

Parallel Session 1 11.00 – 12.30

Venue: Auditorium AB Room Imbiso Room Maritime 1

Chair: Sam Naidu Betty Govinden David Robinson Daniela Gachago

Speaker 1 Michael Chapman An ‘Unredeemable Colonial’in Decolonial and/or Postcolonial Times: Douglas Livingstone’s Language, Then and Now

Rosemary Gray Ben Okri’s Wild (2012): The Muse of Archeology decolonizes the ius dominandi within humankind

Irikidzayi Manase Global speculative aesthetics and narrative trends: continuities and discontinuities in selected SFFSA Nova Short Story Competition entries from 2005 – 2015 depicting the post-transition South Africa

Ethrésia Coetzee Vocabulary of Straight Time vs. Toilet Utopias: Queer Apartheid and Cruising Toilets in Zackie Achmat’s “My Childhood as an Adult Molester”

Speaker 2 Sarala Krishnamurthy Resisting colonisation and colonising resistance: The writer as a historical witness in two Namibian novels: The Scattering by Lauri Kuibitsile and Mama Namibia by Maria Serebrov

Emma K Laubscher Speak Mnemosyne: narration as defence and prison in Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory

Timothy S Wright Exiles from History: Disenchanted Lives in Necktie Youth and Small Things

Blessing Phakathi Masculinity, Cross Border Identity and Transnationalism in Men of the South and Penumbra

Speaker 3 Naomi Nkealah The postcolonial writings of Assia Djebar: Re-imagining Algerian women in ‘Women of Algiers in their Apartment’

Innocent A Ngulube Free play of Abrogated and Appropriated English Dialogues: Ben Okri’s Dangerous Love

Muchativugwa Hove Liberty Continuities, disruptions and critiques of African politics through the lens of African poetry

Owen Seda Re-imagining Christian spirituality in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

LUNCH (12.30 – 13.30)

Parallel Session 2 13.30 – 15.00

Venue: Auditorium AB Room Imbiso Room Maritime 1

Chair: Raphael D’Abdon Malcolm Venter Jaspal Singh Irikidzayi Manase

Speaker 1 Mbongeni Z Malaba Pillars of Strength: The Representation of Women in Marialena Van Tonder’s Images of Namibian Women: A Treasury of Short Stories

Ileana Dimitriu Revolution, Anarchy and Amnesia in J M Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg

Beverley J Cornelius Nostalgia and the Legacy of Indenture in Ronnie Govender’s novel, Song of Atman

Kudzayi NgaraPostcolonial Palimpsests: Overwriting National Identities in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names

Speaker 2 Fatima F Moolla The Marriage Plot and its Variations in the Novels of African Women Writers

Sopelekae Maithufi Interfaces of ecologies in Zakes Mda’s story

Betty GovindenDiaspora and Identity in South African Fiction

Samiksha LalthaAnxieties, Aliens and the Android in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012)

Speaker 3 Cheryl Stobie Charms, Blessings and Compromises in Sweet Medicine: Black Women’s Bodies and Decolonisation

Mphoto J Mogoboya Re-constructing African Cultural Identity: A Literary Examination of Es’kia Mphahlele’s Chirundu

Natasha Skoryk & Matthew Winfield Suspicion and the Surface: A study of Ishtiyaq Shukri’s novels from the perspective of 2017

Petrina Batholmeus, Carva Pop & Joyce Nduna Decolonising English Studies through Work Integrated Learning

TEA (15.00 – 15.30)

PARALLEL SESSION 3 15.30 – 17.00

Venue: Auditorium AB Room Imbiso Room Maritime 1

Chair: Michael Chapman Ileana Dimitriu Sarala Krishnamurthy Mark Espin

Speaker 1 Kwanele Booi English Acquisition: smart ways to teach English second- language Life Sciences student teachers

Ken Barris Reading President Zuma as a construct of whiteness

Sanet Cox Language lecturers’expectations of LMS-support – a framework for improved service delivery

Renato Tomei The language of counter- narratives: A story of human trafficking

Speaker 2 Gregório J Gonçalves Training English Language Teachers in Distance Education in Quelimane and Mocuba Centres in Mozambique

Kristian Stewart& Daniela Gachago White Privilege and the Colonial Wound: Some Digital Storytelling Concerns

Lizzy Steenkamp Teaching English with digital learning: risks and rewards

Olufemi J Abodunrin & Ogungbemi C Akinola Applied theatre techniques: migration, human trafficking and the African migrant

Speaker 3 Mohammed S Kadwa The position of South African English in the Middle East

Isaac Ndlovu Contested Citizenships, Language and Inhabiting Space of the Other in Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing

Hanlie Dippenaar Enhancing reading through service-learning

Agnes M Linake Students’Development in Writing and Reading’s Response: A way of English first additional language learning

Thursday 7 September 2017Auditorium 9.00 – 10.30 Chairperson: Rosemary GrayKeynote Speaker: Elleke Boehmer Postcolonial reading and identity.

TEA (10.30 – 11.00)

PARALLEL SESSION 4 11.00 – 12.30

Venue Auditorium AB Room Imbiso Room Maritime 1

Chair: Candice Livingston Mbongeni Malaba Carol Leff Tendai Mangena

Speaker 1 Nick M Tembo Excavating the Psychotraumatology of Hatred in Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pains

Geoff Haresnape “Terms of Endearment”: a discussion of the ways in which the trope of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out in Flame in the Snow – the Love Letters of Andre Brink and Ingrid Jonker

Pier P PiciuccoThe enigma of identity: Nation, gender, colonization and diaspora in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

Gemma Field Spice up your life: mining the latent extractivist narrative in Frank Herbert’s Dune

Speaker 2 Chelsea Haith “I question why I understand what she said”– Language and decolonial justice in KolekaPutuma’s debut poetry collection‘Collective Amnesia’

Papi D K Makhudu Transcultural discourse in Sol T. Plaatje’s translation of The Comedy of Errors

Laurence Wright Naipaul versus Conrad in A Bend in the River: Intellect in the Developing World, or a Clash of Dinosaurs?

Ursula Saba Vooght Filming Gatsby – subverting Fitzgerald’s subversion

Speaker 3 Rosanna Masiola Translating John Bradburne: Can Mysticism be Translated

Sakina Laksimi-Morrow Inner Journey / Understanding the Role of Positionality

Mark Espin“Only one dancer, but he has a thousand masks”: John Berger’sG. and Beverley Naidoo’s Death of an Idealist: In Search of Neil Agget

Mwaka Siluonde Cosmopolitan vs. Oral Art: A look at Zambian Kitchen Party Songs

Lunch (12.30 – 13.30)

Parallel Session 5 13.30 – 15.00

Venue: Auditorium AB Room Imbiso Room Maritime 1

Chair: Owen Seda Beth Wyrill Ken Barris Rosanna Masiola

Speaker 1 Terrence Musanga The potentialities of decolonizing the coloniality of Zimbabwean transnational migration in Bulawayo’s We Need New Names

acolien Volschenk Transgressing Genre Boundaries: Diasporan Sensibilities and Science Fictional Elements in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads

Candice Livingston Decolonising the fairy-tale: an example of the Rapunzel cipher in ‘Refilwe’ by Zukiswa Wanner

Paulette Coetzee Whiteness, Nostalgia and the De-Centered City in IvanVladislavić’s The Exploded View (2004) and Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut (2007

Speaker 2 Tendai Mangena Cultural Translation and hybridity in Petina Gappah’s ‘Washington’s wife decides enough is enough’

Ken J Lipenga Helen Habila’s Measuring Time: A Trip through Polyvocality

Crystal Warren Shifting Perspectives on Folktales for Children

Sam Naidu & Andrea Thorpe “I don’t belong nowhere really”: The Figure of the London Migrant in Dan Jacobson’s A Long Way from London and Jean Rhys’ Let Them Call It Jazz

Speaker 3 Malcolm Venter The Other Side of South African English

Carol Leff Walking through it: Re-defining an African Cosmopolitanism

David Robinson Islands in Literature as Places of Colonization and Realization

Josephine O Alexander The word is an egg: Osundare’s oralisation and indiginisation of English

Tea (15.00 –15.30)

Thursday 7 September 2017Venue: Auditorium AB Room Imbiso Room

Chair: Cheryl Stobie Pier Piciucco Raphael D’Abdon

Speaker 1 Amos ChaumaThe Language of Instruction Policy Dilemma in Malawi Primary Schools: A Source of Conflict or Confusion?

Adam LevinBeyond Americanah: Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut and the Development of a South African Postcolonial English Curriculum

Raphael D’Abdon, Deirdre Byrne, Annel PieterseDecolonising poetry in South African classrooms and beyond: the joint research education projects InZync (Eastern Cape) and ZAPP (Gauteng)

Speaker 2 Mojalefa KoaiThe use of Sesotho in formal communication within the Free State Provincial Government

Erica LombardReading the glossary in contemporary South African fiction in English

Speaker 3 Doreen R TivengaLanguage syncretism in Zimbabwe Urban Grooves Music and the Expression of Youth Identities and the Everyday Experiences

Sizakele Ngidi & S D HlohloloChallenges experienced by Academic Literacy andCommunication Studies [ALCS] tutors in the teaching of ALCS

17HOO – 18H00 Book Launches and Poetry readings Auditorium

18.30 GALA DINNER The 2017 English Academy of Southern Africa Gold Medal will be presented to Pieter-Dirk Uys

Friday 7 September 2017Auditorium Imbiso Room

9.00 – 10.30 Panel Discussion: Young Writers – Decolonisation Chair: Rosanna Masiola

LiteracyChair: Candice Livingstone

Speaker 1 Ameera ConradThe New Canon : The theatre of decoloniality

Jaspal Singh Literacy, the ability to read and write: Rights to Food, Housing, Culture, Identity and Freedom of Thought

Speaker 2 Lwanda SindaphiRe-Inventing a Colonial Language to Tell an African Story

Lara Krause and Mastin Prinsloo From Linguistic Dead-End to Centre Stage – Translingual Innovation in Township Teaching

Speaker 3 Callum TillburyOn decolonization, ownership and letting go.

Xolisa Guzula, Carolyn McKinney and Robyn Tyler Languaging-for- learning: Opportunities presented by translingual and transmodal practices

TEA (10.30 – 11.00)

PARALLEL SESSION 7 11.00 – 12.30

Venue Auditorium AB Room Imbiso Room

Chair: Nick Mdika Tembo Naomi Nkealah Sopelekae Maithufi

Speaker 1 Johan AnkerContemporary dystopian fiction in Young Adult Literature: a South African example

Colin ReillyLanguage-in-education policies in Malawi – is English best?

Ogungbemi Christopher AkinolaMass mobilisation in African literature: a critical analysis of Femi Abodunrin’s The Dancing Masquerade

Speaker 2 Liesel Hibbert & Hanlie DippenaarInterpreting the new CAPS curriculum – creating communities of practice

Babara BaselThe use of English as a transformative and dynamic force

Olutoba G OluwasujiThe Reconceptualisation of Ogun as the God of Justice in Sunnie Ododo’s Hard Choice

Speaker 3 Beth WyrillGuy Butler and NELM’s literary project: a contested history

Gregório Jorge GonçalvesCommunicative competence theory for English Teacher Trainees

Matteo BaraldoA counter-narrative on social conflict: A story from Ethiopia

High Tea (12.30 – 13.30)