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Displacement in When Rain Clouds Gather by Meintjies, Frank

“…In this article, I examine the representation of displacement in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather (1969). Head not only features displaced characters but…”
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Motherhood and Memory in Najwa Bin Shatwan’s The Slave Yards by Almaeen, Mona

“…This study argues that female slaves’ experiences of motherhood are negatively impacted by the control exerted by social and discursive patriarchy. Focusing on…”
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Ambiguous Women: Complicating Gendered Readings of Beth Dutton and Monica Dutton in Yellowstone by Klabunde, Inke

“…For five seasons, Yellowstone (2018) has been polarizing on many fronts and creating an ambiguous understanding of its political agenda and positioning. This…”
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Situated Readings: Introduction to the Special Issue on Yellowstone by Fourie, Reinhardt, Marx Knoetze, Hannelie

“…As we write this, the 10 November 2024 release date of the highly anticipated second half of the fifth, and final, season of Taylor Sheridan’s epic neo-Western…”
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Tropes Have Fangs: Elsa Dutton, 1883, “Going Native”, Adaptive Whiteness and Trope Resilience by Garman, Anthea

“…In Taylor Sheridan’s television miniseries 1883, the origin story of his American neo-Western series Yellowstone, the voice-over narration is given by the…”
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The Marriage Debate, Mona Caird and Her Feminist Radicalism by Chi, Haonan

“…New Woman scholarship presents Mona Caird as a radical marriage reformer and emphasises how she challenged the patriarchal structure of Victorian marriage…”
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The Power of a Brand: Paramount, Heartland Narrowcasting, and Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone by Sperling, Joshua

“…Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone is, above all, the story of a brand. By situating the popular series in relation to both the streaming and culture wars, as well…”
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The Biopolitics of Disability: A Critique of the Neoliberal England of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go by Pereira J, Deanna, Karunakar, Martha

“…This article investigates the biopolitics of disability in the ablenationalist England of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go and examines how a neoliberal…”
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O’Brien by Nöffke, Georg

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Dining with the Duttons: Food Values and Political Polarisation in the Yellowstone Cookbooks by Pascual Soler, Nieves

“…Since it premiered in June 2018, Yellowstone has become one of the most popular series on television. Because fandom and food go together, given the rise of…”
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Female Sexualities under a Patriarchal Microscope: An Interrogation of Buchi Emecheta’s Double Yoke by Masha, Lethabo, Mogoboya, Mphoto Johannes

“…This qualitative study amplifies the endemic policing of female bodies by patriarchal ideology whereby the sexual lives of African women are often suppressed…”
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Dystopian Futures and Posthuman Realities: Biopolitics in Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland by Dhillon, Bikrambir Singh, Sharma, Diksha

“…Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a near-future Cape Town, South Africa, which delves into the complex interplay between…”
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There Is No Heaven to Go to, Because We’re in It Already. We’re in Hell, Too. They Coexist: Place-Making and the Television Western Series 1883 and Yellowstone by Broodryk, Chris, Bester, Lelia

“…This article explores the idea and articulation of place in Taylor Sheridan’s western series 1883 and Yellowstone. Through narrative and genre analysis, we…”
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Fertile Ground: Reading Yellowstone through the Analytical Lens of the Afrikaans Plaasroman by Fourie, Reinhardt, Marx Knoetze, Hannelie

“…Yellowstone is an American, contemporary Western primetime television series which has evolved into a cultural phenomenon. In this article, we critically read…”
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Colonial Conflict and Cultural Symbolism in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between by Kaur, Sapanpreet

“…The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o stands as a pivotal piece in African literature, probing into the intricacies of colonialism, cultural identity, and…”
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Stiltes en stemme. ’n Huldiging van Karel Schoeman, deur Willie Burger (redakteur) by Marais, Renee

“…SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/Naledi. pp 462. ISBN: 978-1-991256-46-1   Geresenseer deur Renée Marais Universiteit van Pretoria, Suid-Afrika…”
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar by Vijayakumaran, Haritha, T, Marx

“…Scholars and philosophers of motherhood studies have continuously highlighted the contradictions in the dominant cultural ideologies of motherhood and the…”
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Unveiling Jane Eyre: Space Escape and the Construction of Subjectivity through a Foucauldian Lens by Nie, Zhixing, Kaur, Hardev, Mangai, Mani

“…This paper reexamines Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre through a Foucauldian lens, focusing on how traditional societal structures and the rise of capitalism…”
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Norman Ajari Book Review by Sithole, Tendayi

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Refiguring in Black, by Tendayi Sithole by Masola, Athambile

“…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 Masola…”
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