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Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture, by Andy Carolin
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The Multispecies City in McCarthy’s Suttree and Duiker’s Thirteen Cents
“First-wave” ecocriticism focused on “nature writing” attuned to supposedly human-free wildness and its healing beauty. The presence of non-human life …
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The Gender Performances of Margaret Atwood’s Aunt Lydia in "The Testaments"
This article examines the different gender performances that are demonstrated by three versions of the character Aunt Lydia: first, the …
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Power and the Prison: A Foucauldian Perspective on Herman Charles Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and Willemsdorp
Although the political angle in Bosman’s writings as expressed in his language style are recognized, the prison writing as featured …
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Solipsistic breakthroughs or stymying collectives? Historical duels in August Wilson’s Radio Golf.
August Wilson’s place among the most significant chroniclers of African American history through the medium of fictional dramatic narratives is …
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Manga: A Critical Guide by Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart
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Writing the Elusive Narrative of Soweto-Based Community Theatre, 1984–1994
The focus of the article is on writing the history of community theatre, which was a popular avenue for artistic …
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Intermedial Reflections on Analogue Photography and Digital Visuality in Moxyland
This article re-reads Lauren Beukes’s debut novel Moxyland (2008) through an intermedial lens, focusing on the text’s multiple “nested” references …
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The (De)Colonial Praxis: Confronting Present-Day Dilemmas of Transforming Knowledges and Societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt Milk
Contemporary South African campus fiction has always been concerned with questions of power, being, and knowledge production. Kopano Matlwa’s novel …
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Trauma and the Dialectics of Recuperation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
This article argues that Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) is unusual in contemporary fiction in that it suggests a …
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Into our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective, by Neil Lazarus
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The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace, by Alice Brittan
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Agitations for Self-Identification and (Re)presentation in Selected Tshivenda Poetry
Tshivenda poetry thematises varied notions of selfhood and culture, among others. Within this thematisation, longings for the freedom to self-identify …
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Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited by Minna Johanna Niemi
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A Zulu king in conversation with the world: Translational and transcultural strategies in Chaka (1981) by Thomas Mofolo
This article discusses Chaka (1981) by Thomas Mofolo as a transcultural text written by a transcultural author. It had hybrid …
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n Voelvlug oor die ontwikkeling en die gebruik van Kaapse Afrikaans (Kaaps) in Afrikaanse dramas
In this article, I give a bird’s eye view of the development of Kaaps (Afrikaans) drama: from the early days …
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Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation, by Rick de Villiers
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Contagion, a Futurist South African Climate Crisis and a Hidden Drug Pandemic in Mohale Mashigo’s Intruders: Short Stories
The article draws on typologies of contagion, particularly matrices and patterns of virality considered here as tropes from the Bakhtinian …
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Literature and the Battle against Covid-19 in Zimbabwe: A Study of Flight Mlambo’s Digital Verse
This article evaluates the contribution of digital literature in the struggle against the novel coronavirus contagion, focusing on Flight Rufaro …
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Twitter Diary and COVID-19 Survival: The Case of @acielumumba
This article examines the Twitter diary of Lumumba William Gerald Mutumanje, popularly known as Ace Lumumba in Zimbabwe, which chronicles …