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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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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

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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 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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Burying Caesar … or Praising Him? Shakespeare and the Populist Right in the United States 埋葬凯撒，还是赞美他?莎士比亚与美国的民粹主义右翼

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780749

C. Thurman

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Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating 21st-Century American Politics 改造种族建造的房子：21世纪美国政治的幻觉

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780751

Aretha Phiri

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Heritage, Narrative and the Role of the Humanities in Populist Times 民粹主义时代的遗产、叙事与人文作用

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780747

Marie Kruger

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Introduction: Cultures of Populism 引言：民粹主义文化

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780746

M. Titlestad

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Populism vs. the Popular in South African Literature 南非文学中的民粹主义与大众主义

IF 0.2 4区文学

ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1780760

D. Attwell

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