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Review 审查

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v47i2.8

M. Daymond

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Re-Imagining Bobi Wine: Student Electoral Politics as Popular Performance Space 重新想象波比酒：学生选举政治作为大众表演空间

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V47I3.5S

D. Kahyana

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Review 审查

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v47i3.8s

Sue Marais

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“When in Doubt, Leave Out”:1 The Country Editor Who Declined to Publish a Long Letter from Olive Schreiner “当有疑问时，请忽略”：1拒绝发表奥利弗·施赖纳长信的乡村编辑

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V47I2.3

P. Walters, J. Fogg

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ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V47I3.4S

G. Ncube

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Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man: Alternative Models of Reality and the Problematics of Human Reasoning 奥利弗·施莱纳的《从人到人:现实的替代模型和人类推理的问题》

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V47I2.6

Hilary Bedder

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“Writer’s block” in Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man or Perhaps Only – 奥利弗·施莱纳的《从人到人》或《也许只有》中的“写作障碍”

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V47I2.5

Finuala Dowling

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A Bibliography of Biographical and Critical Works on Olive Schreiner by South African Academics and Researchers, 1994–2019 南非学者和研究人员关于Olive Schreiner的传记和评论作品目录，1994-2019

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V47I2.7

Andrew Martin

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Foreword 前言

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v47i2.1

D. Driver

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Genre versus Prize: The Short Story Form and African Oral Traditions 流派与奖项：短篇小说形式与非洲口头传统

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V47I3.3S

D. Kiguru

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