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The End of the Modern Status Quo in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun 阿曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪契的《半个黄太阳》中中国现代现状的终结
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.3.06
Yeisil Carolina Peña Contreras
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Ogaga Ifowodo’s Poetics of Dissent: Reflexive Subversions of Petro-Imperialism in The Oil Lamp Ogaga Ifovodo的异议诗学：《油灯》中对石油帝国主义的反思性颠覆
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.3.05
Michael C. Montesano
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The Hope of a New Narrative: The Nurenebi File by Tefaye Gebreab (review) 新叙事的希望：Tefaye Gebreab的Nurenebi文件（评论）
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.3.12
C. Cantalupo
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“Is There Life Besides ‘Coloniality?’”: Metapoetics and the Second Level of Decoloniality in Niyi Osundare’s Poetry “除了殖民，还有生命吗?”“元诗学与尼伊·奥桑达尔诗歌的第二层次去殖民化”
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.3.08
Tosin Gbogi
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“Sometimes Life Begins When Marriage Ends”: Hybridity and Female Empowerment in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Americanah “有时婚姻结束，生命才开始”:阿迪奇的《紫色木槿》和《美国人》中的杂交性和女性赋权
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.3.07
Dina Yerima-Avazi, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
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Imagining Afrodescendance and the African Diaspora in Spain: Re-/Decentering Belonging in Literature, Photography, and Film 想象非洲后裔和散居西班牙的非洲人:文学、摄影和电影中的重新/去中心化归属
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.2.10
Julia Borst
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The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing by Jeanne-Marie Jackson (review) 珍妮·玛丽·杰克逊的《非洲思想小说：全球写作时代的哲学与个人主义》（综述）
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.2.12
Yuan-Chih Yen
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Historiographic Metafiction and the Interrogation of Collective Memory in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe and Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête J. M.库切的《敌人》和卡迈勒·达乌德的《默尔索》中的史学元虚构与对集体记忆的质疑，contre-enquête
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.2.03
Abdelbaqi Ghorab
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“Sit Like a Woman!”: Posture, Position, and Power in Things Fall Apart “像女人一样坐着！”：事物分崩离析时的姿势、姿势和力量
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.2.09
Harry Olufunwa
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Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria, 1900–1966 by Katherine Isobel Baxter (review) 凯瑟琳·伊索贝尔·巴克斯特的《想象中的国家：尼日利亚的法律与文学，1900-1966》（综述）
IF 0.1 3区 文学
Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.2979/reseafrilite.52.2.11
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
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