{"title":"Introduction: Moving Publicly, Writing Mobility: Public Transport in African Literatures","authors":"Anna-Leena Toivanen, Magdalena Pfalzgraf","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2386779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2386779","url":null,"abstract":"Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 67, No. 2, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142249874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sea and Underwater Transport in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry","authors":"Mapule Mohulatsi","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2385738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2385738","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the link between public transport and literary practices by analyzing Imraan Coovadia’s 2012 novel, The Institute for Taxi Poetry. In this novel, Coovadia comments on South A...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"166 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142201676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade","authors":"Sarah Gibson","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2377913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2377913","url":null,"abstract":"South Africa has a complex history of racialized (im)mobilities. During the social engineering of apartheid, the city became a racialized white space that was dependent on black migrant workers who...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141943428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydropolitical Textualities","authors":"Grace A. Musila","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2369449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2369449","url":null,"abstract":"Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 67, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transportation and Agon in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah","authors":"Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2359780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2359780","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes public transportation as a trope for networked narrative forms in two novels by Chinua Achebe: No Longer at Ease and Anthills of the Savannah. Combining insights from mobility...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141255815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways of Being: Water Spirits in Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land (1992)","authors":"Confidence Joseph","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2347033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2347033","url":null,"abstract":"Mia Couto is a Mozambican writer known for an aesthetics of the fantastic in his numerous works. In most of his writings, he blurs the distinctions between the human and the non-human, land and wat...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140926566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock","authors":"Daniel Roux","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2347040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2347040","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses specifically on post-apartheid representations of Eugene de Kock, who is seen as one of the bookends to the first, more optimistic, phase of South Africa’s post-apartheid momen...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140926508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Limits of Hydro-modernity: A Hydro-critical Reading of Kariba Dam in Selected Texts","authors":"Luck Makuyana","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2347035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2347035","url":null,"abstract":"While the benefits of mega-dams are irrefutable, the destruction they entail necessitates critical attention. This paper engages with alternative histories on Kariba Dam to index the precarization ...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140926503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading Resistance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise: An Analysis of Narrative Perspective","authors":"Marek Pawlicki","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2347043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2347043","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concentrates on the self-reflexive and multi-voiced narration in Damon Galgut’s The Promise. Adopting Elleke Boehmer’s analysis of postcolonial poetics and Derek Attridge’s notion of res...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140926507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Against Indifference: Lyric Documentation in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum (2019)","authors":"Hager Ben Driss","doi":"10.1080/00138398.2024.2347037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2347037","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the significance of Khaled Mattawa’s collection of poems, Mare Nostrum (2019), a lyrical documentation of illegal migration. Mattawa’s poetry integrates information and poetic...","PeriodicalId":42538,"journal":{"name":"ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140926504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}