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Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Author, Lecturer, Pfunzo Sidogi about Critical Voices from the Past, published by Wits University Press.
Arts staff and alumnus add their voices to new book. Two staff members and an alumnus from the Faculty of Arts and Design, Pfunzo Sidogi (Fine and Studio Arts), Dr Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren (Visual Communication), and Katlego Chale (actor, playwright, and former student of the Department of Performing Arts), have contributed chapters to a new book, Public Intellectuals in South Africa: Critical Voices from the Past, published by Wits University Press.
In summarizing the book, Sidogi and Dr Jansen van Vuuren say: “This edited volume engages with the currents and histories of public intellectualism in South Africa. It uses Edward Said’s definition of a public intellectual as ‘someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public of social and political significance.’ Although the book is not limited to cultural intellectuals, many of the chapters explore the content and legacies of South African public intellectuals who focussed on the arts and cultural spheres. This list includes both well-known and marginalised figures: Magema Fuze, John Dube, Aggrey Klaaste, Mewa Ramgobin, Koos Roets, Elijah Makiwane, Mandisi Sindo, William Pretorius, and Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees,” they add.
In his chapter, Sidogi explores the emergence of what he has termed Black Art Criticism in The Bantu World newspaper during the 1930s. “The Bantu World newspaper was the most influential and widely circulated publication among Black people in South Africa during the mid-twentieth century. By using The Bantu World as a case study, I chronicle the early manifestation of visual arts journalism produced by Black writers who were interested in the development of art created by Black artists during the 1930s and beyond,” says Sidogi.
Dr Jansen van Vuuren, film critic and Screenwriting lecturer at the Department of Visual Communication, contributed a chapter titled ‘Kaalgat Critique’: The Public Intellectualism of Koos Roets as Afrikaans Satirist.
For more information about the book, visit https://witspress.co.za/catalogue/public-intellectuals-in-south-africa/
https://www.tut.ac.za/news-and-press/article?NID=481
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By Tulla CritsotakisRenos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Author, Lecturer, Pfunzo Sidogi about Critical Voices from the Past, published by Wits University Press.
Arts staff and alumnus add their voices to new book. Two staff members and an alumnus from the Faculty of Arts and Design, Pfunzo Sidogi (Fine and Studio Arts), Dr Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren (Visual Communication), and Katlego Chale (actor, playwright, and former student of the Department of Performing Arts), have contributed chapters to a new book, Public Intellectuals in South Africa: Critical Voices from the Past, published by Wits University Press.
In summarizing the book, Sidogi and Dr Jansen van Vuuren say: “This edited volume engages with the currents and histories of public intellectualism in South Africa. It uses Edward Said’s definition of a public intellectual as ‘someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public of social and political significance.’ Although the book is not limited to cultural intellectuals, many of the chapters explore the content and legacies of South African public intellectuals who focussed on the arts and cultural spheres. This list includes both well-known and marginalised figures: Magema Fuze, John Dube, Aggrey Klaaste, Mewa Ramgobin, Koos Roets, Elijah Makiwane, Mandisi Sindo, William Pretorius, and Dr Thomas Duncan Greenlees,” they add.
In his chapter, Sidogi explores the emergence of what he has termed Black Art Criticism in The Bantu World newspaper during the 1930s. “The Bantu World newspaper was the most influential and widely circulated publication among Black people in South Africa during the mid-twentieth century. By using The Bantu World as a case study, I chronicle the early manifestation of visual arts journalism produced by Black writers who were interested in the development of art created by Black artists during the 1930s and beyond,” says Sidogi.
Dr Jansen van Vuuren, film critic and Screenwriting lecturer at the Department of Visual Communication, contributed a chapter titled ‘Kaalgat Critique’: The Public Intellectualism of Koos Roets as Afrikaans Satirist.
For more information about the book, visit https://witspress.co.za/catalogue/public-intellectuals-in-south-africa/
https://www.tut.ac.za/news-and-press/article?NID=481
Listen to the podcast here: