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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 3, Issue 2)I would like to begin this essay on Francophonie and the publishing world by considering Francophone literature -- not to be confused with French Literature -- as a literary field unified in time and shaped by struggles...
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From:Kola (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe truth is that our Christian civilization is riddled through and through with dilemma. We believe in the brotherhood of man, but we do not want it in South Africa. We believe that God endows men with diverse gifts,...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedNineteenth-century Yoruba linguist and Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther wanted the next generation of Nigerian leaders to be committed readers and writers and throughout his career he pursued this goal effectively....
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 7, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this paper is to display the way verbal humor manifests itself in African literary fiction through proverbial expressions that populate the narratives. Basing this study on former theories on verbal humor,...
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From:Portuguese Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe following list includes those works by Portuguese authors, and also those by African and Timorese authors writing in Portuguese, which were translated into English with the support of the Portuguese Institute for...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE SILENCE OF WOMEN'S BODIES In her article on three lusophone African women poets reprinted in Novos Pactos, Outras Ficcoes (2002), Laura Padilha argues that until the 1980s, there was a profound "silencio na...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"How did this new genre come into being? Why did it assume this particular shape and form rather than another? When or at what point did it assume this new shape and what outside factors contributed to it? As it...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article investigates South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as a form of cultural articulation in dialogue with Farida Karodia's Other Secrets and Beverley Naidoo's Out of Bounds. I...
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From:English in Africa (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed[Editor's note: the following piece was the first journal article devoted to Peteni's novel in its own right. The critical idiom and preoccupations derive primarily from approaches embedded in Xhosa studies, rather than...
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From:Journal of Literary Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedSummary In the particular historical locale of South Africa's late apartheid, J.M. Coetzee's novel Age of Iron (1990) assumes a narrative position that, while fundamentally impeded by sociohistorical clusters,...
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From:English in Africa (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI J.M. Coetzee's most recent novel has already generated a voluminous and various critical response, and--given the fertile indirections of its narrative style--it is likely to continue to do so for some time. While...
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From:Journal of Literary Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSummary The paper discusses some early Rhodesian novels within the context of nineteenth-century debates about the exotic and recent theories about exoticism. The exotic has various temporal and spatial locations...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRepetition is a significant component of Africa's Kiswahili poetry. These include lexical reiteration, synonym repetition, intensification, grammatical inflection, syntactic parallelism, alliteration and assonance....
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedV.Y. Mudimbe's book of poetry entitled 'Dechirures' portrays an ideal of ecstasy which is not fully realized, but which contains many memorable fragments. The book begins with a reference to John of the Cross, and the...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe National English Literary Museum (NELM) of South Africa has an excellent collection of South African English literature manuscripts. The institution, though formed under the auspices of the minority government, is a...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Western brand of feminism is different from African feminism as reflected in African literature and scholarship on women's issues. As a movement initiated by white women, Western feminism is culture-bound and...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSome aspects of South African literature are examined in order to assess it fairly. These aspects include a working definition of what consists South African literature, the literary traditions of the colonizer...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe list of recent critical and bibliographic resources for modern South African literature in English takes 1974 as the starting point. It is divided into several sections of general and specific topics. The materials...
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From:English in Africa (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn a review article published in the Journal of Southern A frican Studies, entitled "Reimagining South African Literature" (2014), I argued that most of the attention to the probing question which Leon de Kock asked in...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbiola Irele walked into the office of Research in African Literatures with his colleague RAL editor Dick Bjornson in 1989 shortly after his touted arrival at The Ohio state university. His name and scholarly reputation...