{"title":"Through the Looking Glass: Figuring the Animal","authors":"R. Gray","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2023.2182528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2023.2182528","url":null,"abstract":"Wendy Woodward and Erika Lemma (2014, 1) pertinently noted almost a decade ago that “the terms Animal Studies (AS) and Human-Animal Studies (HAS) have been used almost interchangeably in this fairly recent, burgeoning field”; however, the literary trajectory is a much longer one. For South Africans it was possibly Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s Lives of Animals (1999)—soon incorporated into his Elizabeth Costello (2003)—that drew attention at the turn of the millennium to the symbiosis of humans and animals, thus arguably re-igniting the literary legacy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1907), Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s even earlier epic poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855). In 2009, perhaps transposing Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s famed rationalist adage, “Je pense donc je suis” (I think, therefore I am), Jacques Derrida intrigued with The Animal That Therefore I Am, compacting the roots of the eco-phenomenological tree. Soon, the blooming tree became a home for storytellers, poets, and philosophers, providing literary critics, such as those featured in this issue, with an ontopoietic imaginary—that is, a heightened awareness of the oneness of the animal kingdom on Planet Earth.","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89949208","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}
{"title":"A Hibiscus Coast, by Nick Mulgrew","authors":"Jordan Stier","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2022.2123074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2022.2123074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"2013 1","pages":"83 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88080909","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}
{"title":"Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness, edited by Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen","authors":"Hannelie Marx Knoetze","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2022.2152205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2022.2152205","url":null,"abstract":"Shona Hunter is currently active in the Centre for Race Education and Decoloniality (CRED), Leeds Beckett University, UK. She has published widely, engaging in feminist anti-racist decolonial critique that includes all aspects of welfare politics and governance, state practices, identities, and their broader material-cultural-affective relationships to the power of the state in national, global, and colonial ways. Hunter has held positions at the University of Birmingham, Lancaster University, and Leeds University in the UK and visiting positions at the University of Sydney, Australia; the University of Mannheim, Germany; and, in South Africa, the University of Cape Town, Rhodes University, and the University of Johannesburg.","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"33 1 1","pages":"86 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79954696","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}
{"title":"Claiming the City in South African Literature, by Meg Samuelson","authors":"O. Moreillon","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2022.2152206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2022.2152206","url":null,"abstract":"of the","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"90 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81127374","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}
{"title":"Fatima Meer, Choosing to Be Defiant: Pictures, Paintings, Politics, by Rajendra Chetty","authors":"Riaan Oppelt","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2022.2152208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2022.2152208","url":null,"abstract":"Fatima Meer: Choosing to Be Defiant, by Rajendra Chetty, is a visual narrative of the life of author, sociologist, artist, political prisoner, and human rights campaigner Fatima Meer. A passionate South African who fought her entire life for the equality and dignity of all South Africans, Meer was the very definition of the no-nonsense freedom fighter for whom the struggle for human rights never ended. In Chetty, her story has a meticulous follower and Choosing to Be Defiant is a valuable contribution to the literature dedicated to those who fought for a democratic South Africa. Like Meer herself, Chetty is both an involved academic and an authentic critic, shedding light on different ways Meer proved to be defiant, both indefatigably and controversially. The book reveals a sober understanding of a complex life and avoids the pitfalls of hero worship, something Meer herself rejected and made a point of circumventing.","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"146 1","pages":"94 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77736757","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}
{"title":"About the English Academy of Southern Africa","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2023.2182586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2023.2182586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"107 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76013814","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}
{"title":"Faded Mountain","authors":"Kobus Moolman","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2022.2157108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2022.2157108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"104 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73704849","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}
{"title":"Drawing the Dark","authors":"Kobus Moolman","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2022.2157110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2022.2157110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"98 1","pages":"103 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85337003","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}
{"title":"South African Landscapes: Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country in Translation and on the Screen","authors":"Renato Tomei","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2022.2112814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2022.2112814","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The present survey is part of a project on southern African literary landscapes and translation. In this context, Alan Paton’s novel Cry, the Beloved Country (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948) is emblematic of a new eco-critical consciousness, juxtaposed with the devastation of space by the dynamics of colonialism and the enforcement of the apartheid regime from 1948 to the early 1990s. Topophilia, common among other South African authors, is more than a simple literary theme for Paton; rather, it lies at the core of his spirituality and his resistance against apartheid. Likewise, the biblical symbolism and linguistic features inspiring descriptions in Paton’s work enhance textual cohesion and relevance, while also representing a challenge for translation in the context of different African languages. Following a diachronic perspective, this article examines intralingual, interlingual, and intersemiotic translations, focusing on landscape, language, and identity. One intralingual abridgement, multiple interlingual translations into European languages (Italian, French, Spanish), and two intersemiotic translations (in the form of screen adaptations of the novel) are comparatively analysed. The approach relies on studies of literary description, intersemiotic translation, and multimodality.","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"296 1","pages":"45 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77033279","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}