Critical Arts https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca <i>CRITICAL ARTS</i> examines the relationship between texts and contexts of media in the Third World, cultural formations and popular forms of expression. It aims to create a space for an African and Third World perspective of media (both formal and informal) in culture and social theory. <i>CRITICAL ARTS</i> aims to challenge and engage conventional academic practices which reinforce undemocratic relations in society. en-US Copyright for articles published in this journal is vested with the editors and with the individual authors TOMASELL@ukzn.ac.za (Prof. Keyan Tomaselli) criticalarts@ukzn.ac.za (Editor) Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:22:18 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Introduction https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5723 Keyan G Tomaselli, Nisha Ramlutchman Copyright (c) https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5723 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 <i>The Healing Land</i>: Research Methods in Kalahari Communities https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5725 <i>The Healing Land</i> (Isaacson, 2001a) is a vivid, experiential account of Rupert Isaacson's journey towards personal and community healing among the Khomani Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. This paper provides a detailed analysis of <i>The Healing Land</i> in relation to Isaacson's research methodology and interaction with the Khomani, examining how the story he tells is influenced and shaped by his own perceptions and experiences. This article echoes the journey of auto-ethnography from the inter- to the intra-personal. Factual, text-based information on the Khomani and a synopsis of <i>The Healing Land</i> leads to the incorporation of the author's voice into the article, as she refers to personal interviews conducted during research on the book, and shares inner reflections on the article's conclusion. <br><br><i>Critical Arts</i> Vol.18(2) 2004: 3-30 Vanessa McLennan-Dodd Copyright (c) https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5725 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Hitting the Hot Spots: Literary Tourism as a Research Field with Particular Reference to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5726 Literary tourism is a new field in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, and South Africa more generally. Whilst in England, the interested reader/traveller can buy books on Hardy's Wessex, Dickens's London and Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon; show literature students and the public generally an assortment of films on places associated with important writers, and even go on guided walks through famous ‘literary' places like Wordsworth's Lake District; there is very little of the same for the South African literature researcher–or indeed literary fan. KwaZulu-Natal is a particularly rich province culturally speaking, offering a wide range of writers both black and white, male and female, writing in English and Zulu predominantly–Alan Paton, Roy Campbell, Lewis Nkosi, Lauretta Ngcobo, Daphne Rooke to mention but a few. Efforts by literary scholars to encourage literary tourism in this fertile area inevitably lead one to consider a research agenda; in my case this has a threefold purpose involving firstly, the creation of a literary archive of local writers both past and present; secondly, the recording of selected writers and their works on film, and thirdly, the establishment of a ‘literary map' of the region on website. Such a research agenda carries with it complex questions: how to define a ‘local' writer? How to understand the uses a writer makes of place? Who should be featured and why? How do readers' constructed places interface with ‘real' places? What could the impact of literary tourism be? This paper engages with some of these questions and attempts to suggest a possible research agenda that has exciting possibilities within KwaZulu-Natal, and which could offer a potential framework for similar literary tourism projects in other provinces of South Africa in the future. <br><br><i>Critical Arts</i> Vol.18(2) 2004: 31-44 Lindy Stiebel Copyright (c) https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5726 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Representations and Objections: Geert Van Kesteren and the 13th International Aids Conference, Durban, 2000 https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5727 On the African continent, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has had significant effects on the organisation of life across economic, political and social structures. As a social phenomenon, HIV/AIDS is of crucial concern, regionally as well as globally. While the HIV/AIDS pandemic “in industrial and postindustrial societies is believed to be complex, intellectually and politically contested, and theoretically interesting, Third World epidemics are seen to be simple material disasters” (Treichler, 1999, p. 7). This brings to the fore significant issues to do with the representation of AIDS in Africa. <br><br><i>Critical Arts</i> Vol.18(2) 2004: 45-62 Alexandra von Stauss Copyright (c) https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5727 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Book Review: Brian McNair,<i> An Introduction to Political Communication</i> (3rd edition), London: Routledge, 2003, ISBN 0415307082, 272pp. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5728 Phil Joffe Copyright (c) https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5728 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Book Review: Ronald Segal. <i>Islam's Black Slaves: A History of Africa's other Black Diaspora</i>. London: Atlantic Books, 2003, ISBN 190380981, xi + 273pp. Notes, Index, References, Maps. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5729 Bhekimpilo Sibanda Copyright (c) https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5729 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Film Review: <i>Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News</i>. Directed by Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick, 2002, 58 minutes. First Run/Icarus Films. Colour. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5730 Sean Jacobs Copyright (c) https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ca/article/view/5730 Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000