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(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, 2010-10)Alan Paton is known chiefly for his novels, biographies, autobiographies and political writings. His short stories have received relatively little attention. At their best, however, they are finely wrought and deeply ...
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Aliens and existential elevators : absurdity and its shadows in Douglas Adams's Hitch hiker series (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2008-12)According to twentieth-century existentialist philosophy, the universe as we know it is steeped in senselessness, and the only possible means of survival is the construction of subjective meaning. Douglas Adams's fictional ...
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(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2019-10)Looking at two short stories from Dilman Dila’s critically acclaimed short story collection, A Killing in the Sun (2014), I explore the controversial use of DDT in rural Uganda as a site of ecoambiguity. My close reading ...
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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, 2009-05)This article begins by pointing to the dearth of critical attention to Ben Okri’s novel, In Arcadia ([2002] 2003. London: Phoenix). Examples of the sparse but dismissive critical reviews of this novel are given, showing ...
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(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2018-04)This paper elucidates the material, spatial, social and infrastructural contexts of reading in early twentieth century South Africa. It adds to a growing body of work on reading practices and patterns of book consumption ...
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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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(De Gruyter, 2018-07)The title of this presentation is derived from Ben Okri’s latest publication, The Magic Lamp (2017), itself an intersectional text featuring a selection of Rosemary Clunie’s art and Okri’s accompanying ontopoietic/ ...
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(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2019-07)This article focuses on three related poems inspired by the geology and archaeology of the Rift Valley, using them to develop an argument about Ben Okri’s humanism, optimism and symbolist technique. All three poems are ...
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(Common Ground Research Networks, 2019)As this prize-winning short story from Ben Okri’s Incidents at the Shrine (1993) is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, I shall begin by briefly contextualizing Biafra’s quest for freedom in the late 1960s. I ...
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(Unisa Press, 2008)K. Sello Duiker’s The hidden star was published posthumously in 2006 and met with mixed critical reactions. In this article I argue that Duiker’s achievement in this novel has yet to be fully recognized and appreciated. ...
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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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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-08-31)In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, illness and death cause characters to foresee, fear and react to other characters’ deaths. In this article, I explore the significance of Cathy’s anticipatory mourning of, and response ...
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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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(Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 2020)Is there room, as Natasha Distiller asked in 2012, for a “close encounter” with Shakespeare in post-apartheid South Africa? This question has become increasingly pertinent. Following the Fallist movements which were ignited ...
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(Sage, 2013)This article sets up a dialogue between photographs of urban art, artifacts, and architecture in the Prenzlauer Berg district of former East Berlin with a meditation on the ways in which urban subjects interact with their ...
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