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Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1690565

David Robinson

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Storytelling in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas: Archiving the Future-to-Come David Mitchell的云图集中的故事讲述：存档未来

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1754447

Dalene Labuschagne

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The Forest Within the Farm: Locating the Collective Androgynous Influence as Destabilising Anthropocentric Control of Space in Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood 农场里的森林:在戴安娜·韦恩·琼斯的《赫克斯伍德》中，将集体雌雄同体的影响定位为不稳定的以人类为中心的空间控制

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1647451

Mary-Anne Potter

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When Old Names Refuse to Go: Myths, Power, and Subversion in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names 诺维奥莱特·布拉瓦约的《我们需要新名字》中的《当旧名字拒绝消失:神话、权力和颠覆》

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1764087

Rangarirayi Mapanzure

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Intersecting Diasporas 相交的侨民

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1661597

S. Naidu

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Speaking for the Refugee Other: Missioneering, White Saviourism, and the Politics of Ethnographic Representation in Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire 为其他难民发声：路易斯·阿尔贝托·尤里亚的《穿越火线》中的传教士活动、白人救世主主义和民族志代表政治

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1650820

Marzia Milazzo

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Being a Foreigner … Is a Sort of Lifelong Pregnancy: Interrogating the Maternal and the Diasporic in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake 身为外国人 … 是一种终身妊娠：查姆帕·拉希里《名酒》中的母亲和双孢子虫

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1650821

Indrani Karmakar

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South Africa and the Politics of Coevality 南非与共治政治

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1651386

Khwezi Mkhize

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Chaotic Homecomings in Prodigal Daughters edited by Lauretta Ngcobo, Always Another Country by Sisonke Msimang, and What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons Lauretta Ngcobo编辑的《浪子女儿的混乱回家》、Sisonke Msimang编辑的《永远是另一个国家》和Zinzi Clemmons编辑的《我们失去了什么》

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1651385

J. Jacobs

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Nguyen‘s Ghosts in The Sympathizer: Collapsing Binaries and Signalling Just Memory 《同情者》中Nguyen的幽灵:崩溃的二进制和仅仅是记忆的信号

Scrutiny2-Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1650818

S. Bosman

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