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Multiphrenic Identities and Cultural Theory in Post-Apartheid Literary Adaptations: Reflections on Ramadan Suleiman's Film Version of Njabulo Simakhale Ndebele's Fools by Mututa, Addamms, Tomaselli, Keyan

“…In both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, literary texts have been important sites of cultural enquiry. They both historicise culture and allow new…”
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'The Root and Flower of a People's Strength': On the Bi-centenary of The South African Commercial Advertiser and The South African Journal, 1824-2024 by Voss, Tony

“…The South African Commercial Advertiser, a weekly, and The South African Journal, a bi-monthly, were published in Cape Town in 1824, until the publisher George…”
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Editor's Notes by Chapman, Michael

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Narrativity and the Problematics of 'Authenticity' in Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein by Ramesh, Gopika L, J, Sharon

“…Postcolonial historical fictions, set in turbulent times, grapple with the question of 'authenticity' in their fictional representations of events and…”
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Beyond Critical Realism and 'Situated Postcolonial Modernism': Nadine Gordimer's Readings of Franz Kafka by Pawlicki, Marek

“…This article examines the influence of Franz Kafka on Nadine Gordimer's conception of writing and the writer's role in society. I argue that Kafka had a…”
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'left right left': Plasticity, Affect, and Self-shaping Orientations in J M Coetzee's Slow Man by Chakraborty, Soham, Parui, Avishek

“…This article examines Coetzee's ( 2005 ) novel Slow Man through the neuro-philosophical lenses of plasticity and affect theory. The aim is to arrive at an…”
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War Poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War: Re-membering Poetic Bodies through Textual Limbs by Genis, Gerhard, Moen, Melanie

“…This article argues for a conceptualisation of war poetry as a corporeal re-membering that encapsulates trauma as literary theme through the 'poetic bodies'…”
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On Graham Pechey's In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa, with an Appendix by Laura Pechey by Attridge, Derek

“…This introduction to the life and work of Graham Pechey outlines and assesses his career as a literary critic and theorist, tracing his early attraction to…”
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Hit by the Machine: Reading a Local Protest Poem on the Island of Symi, 120 Years Later by Martin, Julia

“…The poem 'Χϵιμϵρινός όνϵιρος,' or 'Winter Dream,' by Metrophanes I Kalafatas, was written in 1903 in the hope of influencing the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid Han…”
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Editor's Notes by Chapman, Michael

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Delinking the Capitalist Episteme: Empathy and the Decolonial Turn in Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama by Karmakar, Goutam, Chetty, Rajendra

“…Amitav Ghosh's Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021), a graphic verse, is a symbolic depiction of the repercussions of the capitalist episteme that…”
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Protest, Erotism, and Subversive Innuendo: 'Radical Rudeness' Poetics in Stella Nyanzi's No Roses from My Mouth by Akingbe, Niyi

“…This article identifies the trope of impoliteness, otherwise called 'radical rudeness', in Stella Nyanzi's collection of poetry, No Roses from My Mouth. When…”
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Thin Slices: Focussing the Lens, Review of Caitlin Stobie's Thin Slices (Verve Poetry Press, 2022) by Mann, David

“…Caitlin Stobie's collection of poems, Thin Slices, is an experiment in form, literature, philosophy, science, and nature. In science, thin slicing is a method…”
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Anecdotes, Colonial History and Planetarity: Revisiting Decolonial Grammar with Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Das, Saswat Samay, Roy Pratihar, Ananya, Sarkhel, Dipra

“…In our article, we consider the current ethics of planetarity and decolonial grammatology in the light of Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse. We begin by…”
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Gender-Based Violence, the Sophiatown Shebeens, and Presentism in Can Themba's Stories Beyond 'The Suit' by Chapman, Michael

“…The last decade or so has seen a renewed interest in Can Themba, writer on Drum magazine of the 1950s. Interest has centred on the story, 'The Suit': a story…”
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The Paradox of 'Impersonal Autobiography': Albert Luthuli's Let My People Go by Coullie, Judith

“…Autobiographies are about selves, and one can reasonably expect that in writing an autobiography the authorial subject is making a claim of personal…”
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The Poetics of 'Sensuous Knowledge' in Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter by Zulfiqar, Sadia

“…Through a focus on Mariam Bâ's So Long a Letter, this paper argues for the importance of indigenous feminist theories in interpreting the work of African women…”
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The Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of Creative Remembrance: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy by Zulfiqar, Sadia

“…Through a discussion of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy (2005) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), this article argues that the creative…”
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Cultural Entanglement, Displacement and Contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia's High Low In-between by Muller, Alan

“…This article focuses on Imraan Coovadia's High Low In-between and investigates how the novel's join protagonists, Nafisa and Shakeer, navigate their…”
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'The Options were Shrinking. Choices were Being Removed': Selected Literary Representations of the Consequence of Climate Change by Murray, Jessica

“…This article considers the ways in which selected contemporary novels represent the limitation of options as a primary consequence of climate change. I will…”
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