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From the Politics of Forgetting to the Ethics of Remembering: The Postcolonial Sublime in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians 从遗忘的政治到记忆的伦理:库切《等待野蛮人》中的后殖民崇高

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096759

M. Hanif, Tahereh Rezaei

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In the Centre of the Cosmos: Sacred Spacetime in Niyi Osundare’s ‘A Song for Olosunta’ 在宇宙的中心:Niyi Osundare的《A Song for Olosunta》中的神圣时空

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096753

Chukwunwike Anolue

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Imprints of Indigenes and the Optics of Settlement: A Bifocal Reading of Summer on the Lakes and A Millimetre of Dust 靛蓝的印记和定居的光学：对湖泊和一毫米尘埃上的夏天的双焦点解读

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096749

C. Theron

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Black Hamlet: A Script in Search of a Stage 黑色哈姆雷特：寻找舞台的剧本

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096760

L. Wright

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Notes on Contributors 投稿人说明

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2059931

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‘Too Uncompromising a Figure to be So Disposed of’: Virginia Woolf and/on Olive Schreiner 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和奥利弗·施莱纳:“一个不妥协的人物，不能这样处理”

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2055855

J. M. Ong

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Paying Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Revision and Reversion in Fiona Melrose’s Johannesburg 向弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《达洛维夫人》致敬:菲奥娜·梅尔罗斯的《约翰内斯堡》中的修正与回归

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2055856

S. Kostelac

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Millenarian Modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’s The Girl who Killed to Save h·i·e·迪洛莫《为拯救而杀戮的女孩》中的千禧年现代主义

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2055853

Arthur Rose

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Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus Trilogy’ and the Legacy of Modernist Difficulty 尴尬的标准：库切的“耶稣三部曲”与现代主义困境的遗产

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2055859

Rick de Villiers

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Near Symmetries: The Transnational Modernism of Edward Wolfe and William Plomer 近乎对称:爱德华·沃尔夫和威廉·普洛默的跨国现代主义

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2055854

Michelle Adler

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