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The Politics of Race in Bosman’s and Vladislavić’s Johannesburg
South Africa’s socio-historical context is shaped by the country’s various phases of colonial domination: Dutch then British and finally, the …
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“Shakespeare nev’r said so!”
This article brings together two distinct forms of engagement with Shakespeare by Black South and southern African writer-intellectuals in the …
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Patriarchy and Intersecting Black Womanhood in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
Many African nations envisioned the prospects of true liberation for everyone following colonial independence. For women, this freedom promised an …
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Threading Intsomi Elements in Kgafela oa Magogodi’s Chilahaebolae
The series of events in Kgafela oa Magogodi’s Chilahaebolae, wherein animal characters are in contention with humans, has often been …
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Sartre, Satire and Transcultural Affinity in Nthikeng Mohlele’s Revolutionaries’ House
Nthikeng Mohlele’s eighth novel, Revolutionaries’ House (2024), emerges in uncanny synchrony with South Africa’s watershed 2024 elections, when the African …
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The Modes of Power and Being in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power
This article aims to explore how power and being are interpreted and conceptualised in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power …
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“[O]m die wit staar aan myself te verduidelik”:
The research focus of this article is the lived reality of the poet–speaker – a South African white woman – …
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Arts-Based Assessment for English Literary Studies
Academic writing remains prevalent in higher education. The academic essay is the dominant mode of assessment in many university disciplines, …
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“Welcome to Our Heaven”
In this article, I offer a reading of Phaswane Mpe’s influential 2001 novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, which focuses on …
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A Long Walk to Purgatory:
A review of the play A Long Walk to Purgatory: The Tales of Dante and Mashudu by Chariklia Martalas.
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The Text and Context of Post-Apartheid Afrikaans Theatre
Afrikaans theatre occupies a curious position within the post-apartheid South African theatre landscape. Despite a limited number of Afrikaans-speaking South …
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Overlooked and Better for It
John Banville established the narrative layout of a self-centred man rendering foolhardily self-assured and incomplete narrative representations of women as …
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Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity, by Azille Coetzee
Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity was published in 2025.In …
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“Lyric is my medium, not chronicle”
In J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, Magda’s contention that “[l]yric is my medium, not chronicle” reflects a …
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Unmasking Coloniality
Various debates and contradictions characterise the life and fiction of Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. While many critics view Naipaul as …
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“A Talent for Wonder”
This article explores Raoul Eshelman’s concept of the performatist double frame as it manifests in Marlene van Niekerk’s short story …
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Global Stage for IsiXhosa Poetry
In this article, I interrogate the visibility of isiXhosa poetry and its poetic elements in global music, particularly in the …
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Re-reading Matsemela Manaka’s eGoli, Domba, and Goree
The influence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was profound in politics and cultural expression in South Africa during apartheid. …
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On the Way to Language: Reading Celan Philologically
Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology, edited by Kristina Mendicino and Dominik ZechnerState University of New York …
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Post-Apartheid IsiXhosa Written Poetry’s Commentary on the Neoliberal Policies of the Democratic South Africa
This interdisciplinary article analyses and interprets selected isiXhosa written poetry texts published during the post-apartheid era. The texts are contextualised …
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