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Book Review: The Revolutionary Drama and Theatre of Femi Osofisan 书评：费米·奥索菲桑的革命戏剧与戏剧

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v46i2.8

Aghogho Akpome

引用次数: 1

Cormac McCarthy and the South Africans 科马克·麦卡锡与南非

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v46i2.1

Gareth Cornwell

引用次数: 2

“All Futures are Bred in the Bellies of their Past”: Siphiwo Mahala’s, Zukiswa Wanner’s and Makhosazana Xaba’s Intertextual Dialogues with Can Themba’s Short Story “The Suit” “所有的未来都孕育在过去的肚子里”——Siphiwo Mahala、Zukiswa Wanner和Makhosazana Xaba与Can Themba短篇小说《西装》的互文对话

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v46i2.2

R. d’Abdon

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引用次数: 4

Truth and Equivocation in Constantine Cavafy’s Poems of Antiquity 康斯坦丁·卡瓦菲古代诗歌中的真理与平等

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v46i2.3

R. Field

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引用次数: 2

The Place of English Literature in the South African University: Zoë Wicomb’s “A Clearing in the Bush” 英国文学在南非大学中的地位:Zoë威库姆的《林中空地》

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v46i2.5

K. Highman

引用次数: 2

Captivity Novels as Critique of South African Colonialism 囚禁小说对南非殖民主义的批判

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-09-18 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v46i2.4

I. Glenn

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引用次数: 1

Black South African Artists in Conversation: Nongqawuse, ‘The Bellow of the Bulls’ and Other Travelling Tropes in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness 对话中的南非黑人艺术家:扎克斯·姆达的《红色之心》中的农卡乌塞、“公牛的咆哮”和其他旅行修辞

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V46I1.3

Yolisa Kenqu

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引用次数: 3

‘What is this place where I find myself?’: Place and the Self in Slow Man1 “我找到自己的这个地方是什么?”:《慢人》中的位置与自我

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V46I1.4

K. Jennings

引用次数: 2

Narrating Whales in Southern Africa 讲述南部非洲的鲸鱼

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V46I1.2

D. Wylie

引用次数: 0

Ben Okri’s Wild (2012): The Muse of Archaeology 本·奥克里的《荒野》(2012):考古学的缪斯

ENGLISH IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2019-07-29 DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V46I1.5

R. Gray

引用次数: 0