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HAGGLING AS A SOCIOPRAGAMTIC STRATEGY IN SELECTED URBAN MARKETS: AN AMALGAM OF ENGLISH AND NIGERIAN LANGUAGES 在选定的城市市场中，讨价还价是一种社会实用策略:英语和尼日利亚语的混合体

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V24I0

M. Alo, T. Soneye

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引用次数: 9

English pronouns in the writing of some Batswana students 一些巴茨瓦纳学生写作中的英语代词

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V18I1.39328

M. Alimi

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引用次数: 2

Dissident Writing: Home and Exile in Frank Chipasula’s Whispers in the Wings 持不同政见者写作:弗兰克·奇帕苏拉《翼中低语》中的家园与流亡

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42817

R. Chirambo

{"title":"Dissident Writing: Home and Exile in Frank Chipasula’s Whispers in the Wings","authors":"R. Chirambo","doi":"10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42817","url":null,"abstract":"Writers in Africa who have taken a critical view of their society have variously been designated as dissidents, traitors, or rebels by the political regimes. In most cases such writers have been forced into exile or placed in detention for their writing and their works banned in their countries. However, such writers have often only expressed the growing disillusionment characteristic of the post-independence African countries even in the recent democratic dispensation. Writers forced into exile have continued to write critical works about their countries besides taking stock of their new surroundings of exile. While postmodernism posits cosmopolitanism or nomadic existence as normal, where exile is home, this article argues that for Frank Chipasula exile could not become home because the local politics of former president for life and dictator in Malawi, Dr. H.K. Banda, and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) haunted his exile. This forced Chipasula in his poetry to engage with Banda’s regime even from exile, resisting the tyranny with the terms of a guerrilla fighter hence his work could be called dissident writing. In his nomadic existence as an exile, Chipasula worries less about where he is than about his home country, Malawi. This article uses poems from his collection, Whispers in the Wings to examine the relationship between Chipasula as a poet in exile and his society in Malawi.","PeriodicalId":411071,"journal":{"name":"Marang: Journal of Language and Literature","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115481857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Language in the news: discourse and ideology in the press 新闻中的语言:新闻中的话语和意识形态

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V11I1

T. Essilfie

引用次数: 24

Memory, power, and Bessie Head: 'A question of power' 记忆、权力与贝茜·海德:《权力的问题》

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/17449859908589311

A. Gagiano

引用次数: 5

Patriarchy and social determinism: interrogating feminist agenda in Tanzania’s neglected poetry 父权制与社会决定论:质疑坦桑尼亚被忽视的诗歌中的女权主义议程

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V28I1

Eliah S. Mwaifuge

引用次数: 2

The Washback Effects of Curriculum and Assessment Reform in Botswana 博茨瓦纳课程与评价改革的反拨效应

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42821

L. Nkosana

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引用次数: 1

Problems Faced by Court Interpreters in Botswana 博茨瓦纳法庭口译员面临的问题

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42820

Fewdays Miyanda

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引用次数: 0

On the mastery of the arrangement of English complex modifiers by some Yoruba learners of English 论约鲁巴族英语学习者对英语复合修饰语排列的掌握

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V19I1.42822

A. Akande

引用次数: 0

Learner Reading Problems: A Case of Khoe Learners at Junior Secondary School 学习者阅读问题:以初中英语学习者为例

Marang: Journal of Language and Literature Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V20I1.56819

E. Mokibelo

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引用次数: 1