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“Human Beings Have a Hard Time Relating to That Which Does Not Resemble Them”: Queering Normativity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon “人类很难与不像他们的人相处”:在Nnedi Okorafor的泻湖中奇怪的规范性

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1826568

G. Ncube

引用次数: 2

“2070”, by Qintu Collab 《2070》，秦图

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1860370

Sonia Audi, Nas Hoosen, Alex Müller, T. Meer

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Afterland Afterland

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1859750

B. Karam

引用次数: 3

Engaged Queerness in African Speculative Fiction 非洲思辨小说中的困惑

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1859772

Bibi Burger

引用次数: 1

Tales of Female Sexuality and Scandal: Lauren Beukes’s “Princess” and Archived Asylum Texts 女性性与丑闻的故事：劳伦·贝克斯的“公主”与庇护档案文本

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1824244

R. du Plessis

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Queer Cyborgs in South African Speculative Fiction: Moxyland by Lauren Beukes and The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden 南非推理小说中的酷儿机器人：劳伦·贝克斯的《莫兰德》和妮基·德雷登的《众神的猎物》

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1832561

Grant Andrews

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引用次数: 1

The Relationship between Futurity and the Rurality and Urbanity of Spaces in the Queer African Science Fiction of Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga 马桑德·恩尚加《三角谷》非洲酷儿科幻小说中的未来与空间的乡村性和都市性的关系

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1859604

Bibi Burger

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Mapping Identities in Lauren Beukes’s (Re)Imagined Cities 劳伦·比克斯(Lauren Beukes)《想象中的城市》中的身份映射

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1831048

Luiza Caraivan

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A Wilting Whisper of Antjie Somers: A Meditation on the Witchery and Gender-Nonconformance of Afrikaans Folklore Figure Antjie Somers 安杰·萨默斯的一句枯萎的低语：南非荷兰语民间传说人物安杰·萨莫斯的巫术与性别不合的沉思

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1859605

Chantelle Croeser

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Translanguaging, Decoloniality, and the Global South: An Integrative Review Study 译语、去殖民化与全球南方:一项综合回顾研究

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1802617

Chaka Chaka

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