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Re-Writing the Nation: Literary Rehistoricisation and Counter-Hegemonic Discourse in Ken Wiwa's In the Shadow of a Saint and Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia 重新书写民族:肯·维瓦的《圣徒的阴影》和雅各布·德拉米尼的《乡土乡愁》中的文学再历史化和反霸权话语

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1345976

Aghogho Akpome

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引用次数: 2

A Walk through Hillbrow: Melancholic Attachments, Impeded Movement and the Search for a Post-Apartheid Image of Masculinity in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 漫步在希尔布罗:忧郁的依恋，阻碍的运动和寻找后种族隔离时代的男性形象，在Kgebetli Moele的207室

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1304439

D. Demir

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引用次数: 2

Towards a Stylistic Re-Reading of John Eppel's Absent: The English Teacher 约翰·埃佩尔《缺席：英语教师》的文体重读

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1344874

N. Dube

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引用次数: 1

Revisioning Reality: Transcending Space and Time in the Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn 修正现实：拉斐迪奥·赫恩佛学著作的时空超越

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1304440

Antony Goedhals

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引用次数: 0

In Her Bones: Second Wave “Women's Time” in Tanith Lee's The Winter Players 在她的骨子里:塔妮丝·李的《冬季球员》中的第二波“女性时间”

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1311361

E. Donaldson

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“Utterly Divided”? The Feminist Perspectives of Lauretta Ngcobo and Olive Schreiner “完全分裂”?劳蕾塔·恩科博和奥利芙·施莱纳的女权主义视角

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1332765

L. Graham

引用次数: 3

Expanding the Territory: Creative Reading Interventions in Lauretta Ngcobo’s Prodigal Daughters 拓展领地:劳蕾塔·恩科博《浪子回头》中的创造性阅读干预

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1311366

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

引用次数: 1

Found Poems from the Novel And They Didn’t Die 从小说中找到诗歌，它们没有死

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1345079

M. Xaba

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“What Is a Place?”: Exploring Place and Displacement in Lauretta Ngcobo’s Novel Cross of Gold “什么是一个地方？”：在Lauretta Ngcobo的小说《黄金十字架》中探索地方和位移

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1311363

Athambile Masola, M. Xaba

引用次数: 1

Prodi-gals: Statelessness and Place-lessness in Lauretta Ngcobo’s “The Prodigal Daughter” (2012) 浪子:劳蕾塔·恩科博《浪子回头》(2012)中的无国籍和无地

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2017.1311364

Polo B. Moji

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