• Chaucer’s Pardoner : food, drink, and the discourse of desecration 

  Goedhals, John Antony (Routledge, 2024)

  The centrality of food and drink in the ‘Introduction to the Pardoner’s Tale’, the ‘Pardoner’s Prologue’, and the ‘Pardoner’s Tale’ itself has been shown by a number of scholars, in particular Martin Stevens & Kathleen ...
• Ways of being : water spirits in Mia Couto’s sleepwalking land (1992) 

  Joseph, Confidence (Routledge, 2024)

  Mia Couto is a Mozambican writer known for an aesthetics of the fantastic in his numerous works. In most of his writings, he blurs the distinctions between the human and the non-human, land and water, the natural and ...
• The desiring girl in South African young adult fiction 

  Kneen, Bonnie (Routledge, 2025)

  Girls in South African young adult (YA) fiction typically represent a heteropatriarchal, sexually passive model of femininity that allows for neither sexual autonomy nor sexual desire. This article examines six prominent ...
• ‘These super people’ : the superimposition of Ted Hughes’ ‘Brasilia’ on Sylvia Plath’s ‘Brasilia’ 

  Nöffke, Tobias Georg (Routledge, 2025)

  When Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters was published in 1998, only months before the poet’s death, the volume came as such a surprise that it made headlines in both England and America. To readers hungry for biographical ...
• The relationship between the spelling and pronunciation of English in the South African context 

  Titlestad, Peter J.H. (South African Association for Language Teaching, 1999-12)

  English spelling is not phonetic. This is just as well as the variety of accents world wide would make a universal phonetic spelling system impossible. But the non-phonetic and sometimes apparently eccentric nature of ...
• Ben Okri's eco-imagination in Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021) : an Afropolitan approach 

  Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2024)

  There are possibly myriad approaches to an examination of Sir Ben Okri’s African folktale, Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021), that sings the praises of Mother Nature’s ability to transform human nature. Premised on the ...
• "The only almost germ-free continent left" : pandemics and purity in cultural perceptions of Antarctica 

  Leane, Elizabeth; Lavery, Charne; Nash, Meredith (Duke University Press, 2023-03)

  This article examines the role of pandemics and viruses in cultural perceptions of Antarctica over the past century. In the popular imagination, Antarctica has often been framed as a place of purity, refuge, and isolation. ...
• The gender performances of Margaret Atwood's Aunt Lydia in the Testaments 

  Weiss, Jordyn Jade (Unisa Press, 2023-04)

  This article examines the different gender performances that are demonstrated by the version of the character Aunt Lydia that Margaret Atwood focuses on in her latest novel, The Testaments (2019). The research is primarily ...
• Editorial : Plunging into the depths of scholarly critique 

  Gray, Rosemary A. (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 ...
• Academic, keyword, and plain English subtitles for natural sciences students : intralingual views 

  Kruger-Marais, Elmarie; Kruger-Roux, Helena (AOSIS, 2023-08-31)

  The study is an analysis of the reaction of students in a faculty of natural and agricultural sciences (NAS) to subtitles and also includes an investigation of their responses thereto. Reception of and responses to ...
• Toward de-exceptionalizing migration : intra-African diasporic writing in South Africa 

  Fasselt, Rebecca (Indiana University Press, 2022-09)

  Migration has never before occupied such a prominent place in African cultural production as it does today. Yet, notwithstanding an increasing focus on intra-African migration in the social sciences, literary ...
• Sekhmet and the shaman : extinction, ferality and trans-species connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion 

  Simon, Judith (Routledge, 2023)

  In her fourth novel, Green Lion (2015), Henrietta Rose-Innes depicts nature’s precariousness in a commercial-driven city. The novel focuses on how, in the Anthropocene epoch, destructive human activities such as property ...
• Religion, security and politics in northern Nigeria : a public intellectual reading of Ahmed Yerima's Pari 

  Oloruntoba, Albert Olatunde (Unisa Press, 2022)

  Nigeria boasts of some of the world's biggest worship centres, as the vast majority of its population attend religious services and pray regularly. However, this nation remains one of the most religiously divisive nations ...
• Using process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning in the teaching of academic literacy 

  De Waal, Marguerite Florence; Weder, Nandi (University of Stellenbosch, Education Faculty, Department of Curriculum Studies, 2022-08)

  This paper presents a quantitative analysis of an intervention study that used process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) to teach grammar as part of an academic literacy module in the Extended Curriculum Programme ...
• The (de)colonial praxis : confronting present-day dilemmas of transforming knowledges and societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt milk 

  Ncube, Ndumiso (Unisa Press, 2022-09)

  Contemporary South African campus fiction has always been concerned with questions of power, being, and knowledge production. Kopano Matlwa’s novel Spilt Milk, like most campus fiction, evokes and challenges the South ...
• Reading for water 

  Hofmeyr, Isabel; Nuttall, Sarah; Lavery, Charne (Routledge, 2022)

  This introduction provides a wide-ranging framing for a set of essays that explores the topic “Reading for Water” in southern African literature. The introduction begins by demonstrating this method through snapshots of ...
• Editorial: Through the looking glass : figuring the animal 

  Gray, Rosemary A. (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 ...
• Inside the creaking baobab in Sindiwe Magona’s When the Village Sleeps (2021) 

  Gray, Rosemary A. (Routledge, 2022)

  Bookended by the life of Busisiwe Mhkonto, When the Village Sleeps can be read as an “unfinished symphony”. The musicological analogy is bolstered by the harmonisation of the polyphonic voice register, coupled with the ...
• Neither very bi nor particularly sexual : the essence of the bisexual in young adult literature 

  Kneen, Bonnie (Springer, 2015-12)

  This article examines four prominent young adult novels about bisexual protagonists: Julie Anne Peters’s It’s Our Prom (So Deal With It) (2012), Brent Hartinger’s Double Feature: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride ...
• Crain Soudien (2019) the Cape radicals : intellectual and political thought of the new era fellowship. Johannesburg : Wits UP 

  Sandwith, Corinne (Transformation, 2021)

  The Cape Radicals presents a fascinating history of the New Era Fellowship (NEF), an organisation that emerged in the latter part of the 1930s as one manifestation of the South African anti-Stalinist Left. As such, the ...

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