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Janet Remmington

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Janet Remmington

Dr Janet Remmington is co-editor with Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson and Dr Brian Willan of Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present (Wits University Press, 2016). She has a PhD in black South African literary history from the University of York, the institution at which Bheki Peterson obtained his MA in Southern African studies.

Fight and flight: Artist Sethembile Msezane during a performance piece in which she referenced the Zimbabwean Chapungu bird after the statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town campus in 2015. Photo: Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images
ANDREW VAN DER VLIES

The long story of #RhodesMustFall

This is an edited extract of Janet Remmington’s chapter titled ‘Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa’, from Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts

  • Janet Remmington
8 min read
Bhekizizwe Peterson pictured with National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) awards judge Professor Hlonipha Mokoena in 2018, after a book he co-edited won a prize. (Image courtesy of NIHSS)
AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION ALA

Great heart of African literature: Bheki Peterson’s expansive vision of the world

Having conducted the bulk of his study during apartheid, which informed his scholarship, Peterson left us with provocations for the future

  • Janet Remmington
6 min read