The itinerant Flâneur: Toloki as a migrant in time and ideological space in<i>Ways of Dying</i>

Ngara, Kudzayi

doi:10.1080/10131750903336015

English Academy Review

2009

DOI: 10.1080/10131750903336015

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The itinerant Flâneur: Toloki as a migrant in time and ideological space inWays of Dying

Kudzayi Ngara

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“…Cf. Benjamin, 1974Benjamin, , 1984Benjamin, , 2001Gluck, 2005;Hessel 1984;Ngara, 2009;Nuttall, 2004;Rignall, 1992;Rose, 2007. 17. For a critique on the 'invisibility' of the 'flâneuse' see, for example, Wolff, 1985;Parsons, 2000;D'Souza and McDonough, 2006. 18.…”

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‘Travellers of the Street’: Flãnerie in Beyene Haile's Heart-to-Heart Talk

Matzke¹

2011

New Theatre Quarterly

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In January 2008 the Eritrean capital of Asmara witnessed a theatre production that did not sit easily with the cultural imaginary of the country. Performed by a group of university graduates rather than the well-versed artists in government employ, Beyene Haile's Weg'i Libi, or Heart-to-Heart Talk, caused a stir among the local art-loving community in that it defied common strands of Eritrean theatre arts. Difficult to understand, with no clear plot or clear-cut message, it nonetheless drew crowds during the two weeks of its performance, largely because, as Christine Matzke suggests in this article, it allowed audiences to participate in the intellectual flânerie presented on stage. Basing her article on material collected in autumn 2008 and spring 2010, the author here provides an interpretation of the play and an outline and contextualization of its production process. Christine Matzke has spent well over a decade researching Eritrean theatre arts and cultural production. Her publications include the co-edited African Theatre 8: Diasporas (2009) and Postcolonial Postmortems (2006) on transcultural crime fiction. She teaches at the University of Bayreuth.

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‘Travellers of the Street’: Flãnerie in Beyene Haile's Heart-to-Heart Talk

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2011

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Kleinboer as Johannesburgse flaneur, met spesifieke verwysing naWerfsonde

Burger

2018

Journal of Literary Studies

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In sy resensie van Werfsonde (2012) sê Van Coller (2013: 193) dat die outobiografiese roman se hooffiguur nie beskou kan word as 'n flaneur nie. Hy definieer "flaneren" as "doelloos rondswerf" en sê dat dié konsep 'n baie spesifieke betekenis in die Europese literatuurgeskiedenis het. Hierdie artikel argumenteer dat die verteller van Werfsonde wél as flaneur beskryf kan word. Walter Benjamin (1997: 55) konseptualiseer die flaneur nie as iemand wat slegs ronddwaal nie, maar voer aan dat 'n flaneurteks een is waarin die skrywer of verteller se eksplisiete politieke kommentaar van minder belang is as die maniere waarop die teks gemerk is deur die stedelike omgewing waardeur die flaneur beweeg. Hierdeur word die teenstrydighede van die flaneur se samelewing in die teks ontbloot. Hierdie artikel voer aan dat Benjamin se teoretisering oor die flaneur gebruik kan word om 'n algemene diskoers binne die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuurteorie-waarbinne die literêre uitbeelding van beweging deur die stad gekonsepsualiseer word as bemagtigend en simbolies van karakters se agentskap-te nuanseer. Werfsonde dien as 'n gepaste teks vir die verkenning van die beperkings van hierdie diskoers omdat die verteller se beweging deur Johannesburg beïnvloed word deur 'n verskeidenheid faktore, insluitend sy klas, ras en geslag. Benjamin (1997: 104) se beskrywing van die flaneur as 'n skrywer wat homself nie heeltemal van sy omgewing kan distansieer om kritiek daarop te lewer nie, maar wat toelaat dat die stad hom en sy werk merk op 'n manier wat wel kan lei tot politieke insigte, dien dus as 'n manier om die politieke belang van Werfsonde te verken sonder dat die verteller gekonsepsualiseer word as 'n ten volle outonome mens wat agentskap uitoefen deur sy bewegings deur Johannesburg.

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The itinerant Flâneur: Toloki as a migrant in time and ideological space inWays of Dying

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‘Travellers of the Street’: Flãnerie in Beyene Haile's Heart-to-Heart Talk

‘Travellers of the Street’: Flãnerie in Beyene Haile's Heart-to-Heart Talk

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