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Language, education, and transformation in Bianca Marais’s Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Fincham, Gail

“…In this article, I analyse Bianca Marais’s debut novel Hum If You Don’t Know the Words (2017). I consider first its relation to the historical events of the…”
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‘Reterritorialising’ the land: Agaat and cartography by Gail Fincham

“…In this article, I look at the ways in which Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat re-orders the ideas of stewardship and land ownership in the South African plaasroman…”
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Henrietta Rose-Innes in conversation with Gail Fincham by Fincham, Gail, Rose-Innes, Henrietta

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"A World Not Our Own to Define": Ecological Solutions to Global Catastrophe in the Works of Barry Lopez by Fincham, Gail

“…In this article, I look at the multigeneric writings of Barry Lopez, namely Arctic Dreams (London: Vintage, 1986) and Horizon (London: Vintage, 2019), as well…”
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Ecology and the Future by Fincham, Gail

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Travel, Indigeneity, Ecocriticism, and the Sacred in Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines and Julia Martin's A Millimetre of Dust by Fincham, Gail

“…Julia Martin's A Millimetre of Dust: Visiting Ancestral Sites (Cape Town: Kwela, 2008) and Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines (London: Picador/Pan Books, 1987)…”
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Rivers, Politics, and Ecology in Jacklyn Cock's Writing the Ancestral River and Dominique Botha's False River by Fincham, Gail

“…Tracing the history of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape, Jacklyn Cock writes: "For me, the Kowie ... connects a personal and a collective history, the…”
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Towards a New Environmentalism: Indigeneity, Ethics and Ecology in Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and Two Recent Ecocritical Studies by Fincham, Gail

“…Starting with the premise that postcolonial writers are increasingly interested in aspects of indigenous thinking, this paper draws on recent ecocriticism to…”
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J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello: From Anthropocentrism towards Biocentrism? by Fincham, Gail

“…In this article, I argue that J. M. Coetzee's multigeneric text, Elizabeth Costello (2003. London: Vintage Books), may be read as developing a voice for the…”
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Geographies of the Body: Constructing Memory through Place in Shaun Johnson's The Native Commissioner (2006) and Anne Landsman's The Rowing Lesson (2007) by Fincham, Gail

“…This article investigates two recent South African novels which construct memory through narrative: Shaun Johnson's The Native Commissioner (2006…”
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Ecology, Ethics, and the Future:Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists by Fincham, Gail

“…This article explores a recent postcolonial novel, The Garden of Evening Mists (2012. Newcastle upon Tyne: Myrmidon), by the Chinese Malaysian writer Tan Twan…”
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Henrietta Rose-Innes in conversation with Gail Fincham by Rose-Innes, Henrietta, Fincham, Gail

“…Henrietta Rose-Innes in conversation with Gail Fincham…”
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Henrietta Rose-Innes in conversation with Gail Fincham by Fincham, Gail, Rose-Innes, Henrietta

“…In Stone Plant, I wanted to return to a more hopeful vision: set in a slightly future or alternative Cape Town (as are the other two books), the focus is on…”
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An Author's Journey: Anne Landsman in Conversation by Fincham, Gail

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The Mind's Eye: Focalizing "Nature" in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea by Fincham, Gail

“…This article contrasts the ideas of nature on which Charlotte Brontë builds her Bildungsroman Jane Eyre (2001. New York and London: Norton) with those on which…”
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Conrad's 'Embedded' Narratives by Fincham, Gail

“…This article brings together recent narrative theory and the fiction of Joseph Conrad. Looking at the role of the authorial narrator in Nostromo (Conrad,…”
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Voice and gaze in metropolitan and postcolonial writing and film by Fincham, Gail

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Editorial by Fincham, Gail

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Editorial by Fincham, Gail

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Writing lives and letters by Fincham, Gail

“…Why is the strategy of employing fictional narrators who 'tell' their stories to an implied audience so popular in South African fiction from the middle of the…”
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