Staffrider Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1980 - DISA

IMAGESGeorge Hallet's Images and James Matthews' textare combined in a publication that is simple, powerfuland unpretentious. The poems are never captions,nor are the pictures illustrations, but the twomedia form a dialogue: sometimes contradicting,sometimes complementing each other. The picturescover a wide range of black experience, mostly locatedin the Cape. Images is a striking and unsentimentaljourney. Buy it.IMAGES: R6-00Now available from Ravan Press, P.O. Box 31134,Braamfontein, 2017 Johannesburg, or from BLACPublishing House, P.O. Box 17, Athlone, Cape.Ill gjf"ajffjl jikwwr Inl ^Work In Progressis a journal which explores and presents ideas and materialabout Contemporary South African society. WIP appears fivetimes per year.REGULAR FEATURESinclude summaries of political trials, and items on resistanceby the working class.SOME ARTICLESin previous editions have dealt with the Glenmore resettlementissue, Winterveld, the Wiehahn and Riekert Commissions,Africanwomen and labour, the Solomon Mahlangucase, the Eveready strike, literature and its relationship tosociety, bus boycotts and the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial.SUBSCRIPTIONSare available to organisations, individuals, and groups whoAFRICA w,bsor,b6toAFRICA PERSPECTIVE, a quarterly journal,started in 1974, attempts to raise thelevel of discussion ©n African, particularlySouthern African events, through articlesthat are both theoretical and factual, bothhistorical and current. Some of these havebeen about resettlement,women,state andlabour,underdevelopment,industrial conflict,the role of the reserves in S.A. ,localj tpolitical bodies,and the growth ofcapitalist agriculture. 1African countries which have been looked at areMozambique,Uganda,Tanzania,Angola,Namibia,andZaire.Issues planned will focus on the socialconsequences of the use of machinery in S.A.Industry,and on the Southern African states.LOCAL SUBSCRIPTI0NS-R3,80 FOR 4 ISSUES.POSTAGE INCLjPERSPECTIVEWRITE T0:P0 BOX 32267, BRAAMFONTEIN, JOHANNESBURG, 2017.PRAXISP.O. Box 1280, Santa Monica, California 90406A Journal of Radical Perspectives on the ArtsRobert Sayre, 'Goldmann and ModernRealism: Introduction to the BalconyArticle'Lucien Goldmann, 'Genet's The Balcony: ARealist Play'Stefan Morawski, 'Histoncism and thePhilosophy of Art'Alan W. Barnett, 'Jose Hernandez Delgadillo:The New Art of the Mexican Revolution'Marc Zimmerman, 'Exchange and Production: Structuralist and Marxist Approachesto Literary Theory'Louis Aragon, 'John Heartfield and Revolutionary.Beauty'Kenneth Coutts-Smith, 'The Political Art ofKlaus Staeck' (with over 60 reproductions)'The Image as Weapon: Interview with,and Photomontages by, Christer Themptander'Gregory Renault, 'Over the Rainbow: Dialectand Ideology in The Wizard oj Oz'Alberto Asor Rosa, 'Gramsci and ItalianCultural History'Stefan Heym, 'The Indifferent Man' (shortstory)^ ,o^.x -^ -^wish to distribute WIP.Rates in Southern Africa:Individuals: R5-00 per annum.Organisations: R10-00 per annum.Group distributions: 80c per copy. Reduced rates and/or acertain number of complimentary copies can be arranged onrequest.Rates elsewhere:Western Europe and the United Kingdom: Individuals:R12-50 per annum. Organisations: R18-00 per annum.North America and Canada: Individuals: Rl5-00 per annum.Organisations: R2 5-00 per annum. (Rates include secondclass airmail postage).For further details and subscriptions contact:The Editors, P.O. Box 93174, Yeoville 2143, South Africa.1Critical ArtsA journal for media studiesThis new journal will be characterized by a radicalperspective on the arts (e.g. film, radio, television,theatre, music, art, press etc.). It will be concernedwith media and communication in a Third Worldcontext and will be polemical in nature. Its immediateaim will be to generate discussion and dialoguebetween academics and the world at large, and tochallenge the existing social structures and social relationswhich govern the status quo orientation ofSouth Africa's media institutions.The Editors are now in a position to receive articleswhich may be considered for publication. Furtherinformation may be obtained from the Editors, c/oSchool of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg.Ariel Dorfman, 'The Invisible Chile: ThreeYears of Cultural Resistance'Marc Ferro, 'Lagrande illusion: Its DivergentReceptions in Europe'Andrew Turner, 'Ballads Moribundus' (2.8drawings)William Hartley, 'Lambras: A Vision ofHell in the Third World'fames Goodwin, 'The Object(ive)s of Cinema: Vertov (Factography) and Eisenstein(Ideography)'G. L. Ulmen, 'Aesthetics in a "DisenchantedWorld'"Heinz Bruggemann, 'Bertolt Brecht andKarl Korsch: Questions of Living andDead Elements Within Marxism'Richard Albrecht and Matthias Mitzschke,'Bert Brecht: "Bolshevik Without a PartyBook" or Petit-Bourgeois Intellectual?'Thomas McGrath, 'Some Notes on WalterLowenfels''The Spanish Civil War: A Portrait inVerse, with Photographs by Hans Namuthand Georg Reisner'David Craven, 'Towards a Newer Virgil:Mondrian De-mythologized'Plus notes and discussion by Leonard Henny, Marc Zimmerman, Edward Baker and BramDijkstra; short reviews by Lee Baxandall, fonah Raskin, Frank Galassi and David Peck;poetry by Yannis Ritsos, Ernesto Cardenal, Denise Levertov, Thomas McGrath, Tanure Ojaide,Peter Klappert, Ricardo Alonso, Margaret Randall, Teresa deJesus, Vicente Gomez Kemp, DonGordon, Walter Lowenfels, Harryette Mullen, fames Scully, Ricardo Morales, Mary Lou Reker,E. Ethelbert Miller and Susan Anderson; drawings by Rene Castro.Single copies: $ 3-75- Individual subscriptions (including outside the United States): $ 7.oofor two issues. Sustaining subscriptions: '25.00. For checks in Canadian dollars pleaseadd 10%.48 STAFFRIDER, FEBRUARY 1980