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Historical Sources and the Writing of Fiction: An Analysis of Valerie Cuthbert’s The Great Siege of Fort Jesus 历史渊源与小说创作——瓦莱丽·卡斯伯特《耶稣堡大围攻》解析

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852697

J. Kosgei

引用次数: 2

The Intimate Strangeness of Tongues and Wings: Precarity and Conviviality in The Book of Malachi by T.C. Farren and The Theory of Flight by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 舌头和翅膀的亲密陌生：T.C.Farren的《玛拉基书》和Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu的《飞行理论》中的不稳定和欢乐

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852686

C. Stobie

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引用次数: 2

An Unheroic Hero: Somerset Maugham’s Autobiographical Fable of the Anglo-Boer War 一个不英勇的英雄:萨默塞特·毛姆关于盎格鲁-布尔战争的自传寓言

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852693

L. Wright

引用次数: 1

Encountering ‘Confusions in Existing Arrangements’ in South African Literature: Contesting Temporality in Imraan Coovadia’s Tales of the Metric System 在南非文学中遭遇“现有安排的困惑”——伊姆兰·库瓦迪亚《公制故事》中的时间性之争

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852685

Deena Dinat

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引用次数: 1

Talking Books: The Paratextuality of African Literary Podcasts 会说话的书：非洲文学播客的文本性

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852707

James Hodapp

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引用次数: 1

Makanna, Or, The Land of the Savage: Makhanda ka Nxele in English Literature 马卡纳，或者说，野蛮之地：英国文学中的马卡

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852700

Damian Shaw

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Finding the ‘Herstorical’ Narrative in Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give 在安吉·托马斯的《你给予的仇恨》中寻找“历史”叙事

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780762

A. Levin

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Authoritarian Patriarchy and Its Populism 专制父权制及其民粹主义

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1784554

Inderpal Grewal

引用次数: 4

Authoritarian Populism and the Republic of Heaven in Philip Pullman’s 普尔曼的专制民粹主义与天国

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780752

Robyn Pierce

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Perplexing the Liquid University 困扰液体大学

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780753

Wamuwi Mbao

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