Publications
This page lists recently-published research emerging from the projects of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, as well as related publications by the Director and TCC affiliates who are members of staff, students or Research Associates at the University of the Witwatersrand. Click through to read more!
2024. Thurman, Chris.
Mining / history (Shakespeare and mining in South Africa).
2023. Mtsaka, Zwelakhe.
Revisiting B.B. Mdledle’s isiXhosa translation of Macbeth (1959): Prophecy, tragedy and history .
Shakespeare in Southern Africa 36: 97-104.
2023. Ritchie, Linda.
Translanguaging as Decolonial Pedagogy: Investigating its efficacy in the teaching of a trans-Atlantic Julius Caesar.
2023. Ritchie, Linda.
Translanguaging as Transformative Pedagogy of Shakespeare in South African Secondary Schools.
Shakespeare in Southern Africa 36: 55-70.
2023. Thurman, Chris and Young, Sandra (eds).
Global Shakespeare and Social Injustice: Towards a Transformative Encounter (Bloomsbury).
2023. Thurman, Chris.
“Alexa Alice Joubin: Shakespeare and East Asia” (review).
Recherche littéraire/Literary Research 39 (2023): 239-44.
2022. Roberts, Sarah.
Sounding the Polyphonic Cacophony of Macbeth with a Young Jozi Ensemble.
Shakespeare in Southern Africa 35: 4-18.
2022. Ritchie, Linda.
Quizzical Shakespeare: Balancing information and informality.
2022. Thurman, Chris.
From ‘English Never Loved Us’ to JAM at the Windybrow: Covid-Era Digital Shakespeares in/from South Africa.
In Sen (ed.), Digital Shakespeares from the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan), pp.37-55.
2022. Thurman, Chris.
Othello Surfing: Fragments of Shakespeare in South Africa.
In Joubin and Bladen (eds), Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare (Palgrave Macmillan), pp.57-78.
2021. De Waal, Marguerite.
Hamlet 2021’s Outrageous Fortune.
2021. Thurman, Chris.
Endings and (New) Beginnings: Shakespeare against Apartheid, Shakespeare post-apartheid and Shakespeare beyond South Africa.
2021. Thurman, Chris.
“Dante, can I lead you?” South African students write back (across seven centuries and a hemisphere).
2020. Da Costa, Neka.
Positionality and Performance: Staging Antony and Cleopatra for South African schools in the context of decolonisation imperatives.
2020. Ramsay, Fiona.
Accents and Original Pronunciation as Tools for Teaching and Performing Shakespeare in South Africa.
2020. Roberts, Sarah.
Dispossession and Disintegration, Pity and Fear: The instrumentality of objects in two productions of King Lear.
2020. Thurman, Chris.
Shakespeare.za: Digital Shakespeares and education in South Africa.
2020. Thurman, Chris.
Kunene and the Swan: Two Approaches to Biography, History and Shakespeare in South African Theatre.
2020. Thurman, Chris.
Dostoevsky in English and Shakespearean Universality: A Cautionary Tale.
Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 21: 99-114.
2020. Thurman, Chris.
Burying Caesar … or Praising Him? Shakespeare and the Populist Right in the United States.
2020. Thurman, Chris.
‘In front as at the rear’: Black soldiers, white imperialism and Mhudi.
In Willan and Mokae (eds), Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration (Jacana), pp.37-59.
2020. Thurman, Chris.
Accentism, Anglocentrism, and Multilingualism in South African Shakespeares.
In Lee (ed.), Shakespeare and Accentism (Routledge), pp.100-120.
2020. Thurman, Chris.
Shakespeare versus Shakespeare: Notes on Theatre-Making from Belgium to South Africa.