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Displacement in When Rain Clouds Gather
In this article, I examine the representation of displacement in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather (1969). Head not only …
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Tropes Have Fangs: Elsa Dutton, 1883, “Going Native”, Adaptive Whiteness and Trope Resilience
In Taylor Sheridan’s television miniseries 1883, the origin story of his American neo-Western series Yellowstone, the voice-over narration is given …
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O’Brien
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Female Sexualities under a Patriarchal Microscope: An Interrogation of Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke
This qualitative study amplifies the endemic policing of female bodies by patriarchal ideology whereby the sexual lives of African women …
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“There Is No Heaven to Go to, Because We’re in It Already. We’re in Hell, Too. They Coexist”
This article explores the idea and articulation of place in Taylor Sheridan’s western series 1883 and Yellowstone. Through narrative and …
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Fertile Ground
Yellowstone is an American, contemporary Western primetime television series which has evolved into a cultural phenomenon. In this article, we …
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Stiltes en stemme. ’n Huldiging van Karel Schoeman, deur Willie Burger (redakteur)
SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/Naledi. pp 462. ISBN: 978-1-991256-46-1 Geresenseer deur Renée Marais Universiteit van Pretoria, Suid-Afrika renee.marais@icloud.com
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Norman Ajari Book Review
At this time, Norman Ajari delivers a timely intervention through his instalment, a book entitled Darkening Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, …
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Refiguring in Black, by Tendayi Sithole
Refiguring in Black, by Tendayi Sithole Polity Press. 2023. viii + 158. ISBN: HB: 13: 978-1-5095-5071-1; PB: 13: 978-1-5095-5702-8 Athambile …
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Literary Gerontology Comes of Age: A Poetic Language of Ageing (2023), edited by Olga V. Lehmann and Oddgeir Synnes
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Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview, by Jeffrey Di Leo
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Die tempteerbare oog: Opstelle oor die werk van Marlene van Niekerk, deur Marius Crous (redakteur)
SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/Naledi. pp 367. ISBN: 978-1-991256-12-6
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Self-Defence and Battered Woman Syndrome in a Selected isiXhosa Short Story
The fact that there are continued public reports of abuse and violence against women and young girls in South Africa, …
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“Their Skin Is Black”
This article examines Go Went Gone (2015), an award-winning novel by the German writer Jenny Erpenbeck on the plight of …
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The Typewriter’s Tale: Re-Exploring the Historical Figure of Henry James through Fiction
This article investigates the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the character and identity of Henry James …
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Culpability and Nature-Nature Infractions in Select Poems in Tanure Ojaide’s Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic
In literary imaginings, the infraction of the law by human and nonhuman agents manifests in different planes and character. With …
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Blackface on the South African Stage
In most contemporary studies in which the practice of blackface is discussed, it is seen as a controversial and racist …
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LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century, by Robert C. Evans
Robert C. Evans'sLGBTQ+ Literature in the West (2023) sets out, as he puts it, to "survey […] the critical responses …
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Apartheid’s Patriarchies in Decline: White Masculinities in Damon Galgut’s The Promise
The initial popular reception of Damon Galgut’s The Promise (2021) has overlooked issues of gender in the text, favouring instead …
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Mapping Abjection: Dissecting Racial and Sexual Boundaries in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg
This article details the deconstruction of social identity in Mark Gevisser’s memoir Lost and Found in Johannesburg. It does so …