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Browsing English by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Springer, 2012-05)This article reviews and compares the literary fictions of the United States and New Zealand, as they have sought to respond to the ‘occupation,’ 1942–1944. During the period in question, approximately 100,000 United ...
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(Routledge, 2015-01)This article undertakes an analysis of the narrative temporalities and of the narratives of temporality, specifically those of apocalypse or end-times and of living-on respectively, to be found in two recent South African ...
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(Routledge, 2020)The argument in this article is that Ben Okri’s ekphrastic The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age (London: Apollo, 2017) reveals an ontopoietic or heightened awareness literature of the “imagiNation”, to borrow a neologism from ...
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(Routledge, 2021)The central premise in this article is that Ben Okri's generational protest poem, “The Incandescence of the Wind”, first published in An African Elegy (London: Jonathan Cape, 1992) and republished in Rise like Lions (London: ...
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(Routledge, 2018-06)This article suggests that racism, construed as a reified and artificial dichotomization of social bodies into acutely hypostatized and opposed identities, can best be understood by placing it within a larger global context ...
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(Routledge, 2015-02)OK Bazaars, Clicks, Spar, CNA and Checkers are the gaudy names of South African supermarkets which, in Phaswane Mpe’s classic ‘mapping’ of crime-‐ridden Johannesburg in Welcome to Our Hillbro ...
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(Routledge, 2014-05)Terry Pratchett is well known for his personal brand of comic fantasy (both in his adult and children’s novels), which he uses to underscore more serious and pertinent concerns. His use of the comic and fantastic are ...
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(Routledge, 2018)In this article, I argue that in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ([1847] 2003. London: Penguin) the ‘witch’ motif is used to explore the novel's depiction of nineteenth-century anxieties surrounding threats to patriarchy, ...
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(Routledge, 2014-01)The present work attempts to imagine a point at which expressive style and ontological style are indistinguishable. While expressive style refers to the manner in which an entity is presented, or presents itself, ontological ...
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(UNISA Press, 2021-07)The concept of the public intellectual is yet to be well engaged in Nigerian scholarship. While it has been implied in many critical works on writers, activists, journalists, lawyers, and others, the concept of the public ...
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(Routledge, 2020)This article seeks to unveil Ben Okri’s antidote to the proposition that the “normal” world is an asylum for mind control. Acknowledging its rich literary undercurrent, I posit that The Freedom Artist (2019), countering ...
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(Routledge, 2013)This paper begins with an initial justification of the chosen title and argues for the idea of The Landscapes Within effectively becoming the eponymous hero of a tale, the trajectory of which is the inner workings of the ...
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(Sage, 2019-04)Crime fiction by women writers across the globe has in recent years begun to explore the position of women detectives within post-feminist cultural contexts, moving away from the explicit refusal of the heterosexual romance ...
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(Routledge, 2013)For nearly a century the quatrain poems of T. S. Eliot, collected in Poems (1920), have occupied a comparatively peripheral space within the enterprise of Eliot studies. Despite the frequency with which some of them have ...
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(Routledge, 2018)The relevance of the classical canon has been the subject of much heated debate, especially in a contemporary post-colonial and ostensibly post-patriarchal context. The adaptation of classical works is one way in which ...
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(Routledge, 2020)The first slave wreck to be definitively identified is the São José-Paquete de Africa, a slave ship from Mozambique Island wrecked off the coast of Cape Town. This paper takes that wreck as case study and context for the ...
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(Routledge, 2015-07)Throughout her long career, Doris Lessing frequently wrote about Rhodesia or Zimbabwe, often giving the country fictional names, including Anna Wulf’s Central Africa in The Golden Notebook. Anna dismisses her account of ...
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(Routledge, 2023)This issue of English Academy Review provides both contributors and readers of our internationally acclaimed journal with a rare opportunity to imagine themselves as novice deep-sea divers, not in search of a Tennysonian ...
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(Routledge, 2022)The articles featured in this final issue, compiled and edited by Dr Sopelekae Maithufi, the outgoing editor-in-chief, and finalised by Professor Emerita Rosemary Gray, managing editor of English Academy Review, provide a ...
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(Routledge, 2011-05)Several of the dominant discourses of the times in which Enid Blyton lived and wrote are reflected in her writing; and this resulted in much negative criticism of her work. However, her writing also offers evidence of ...
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