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‘I gave him Leave to Live’: Emily Dickinson’s Non-service and Ralph Waldo Emerson “我给了他活下去的许可”:艾米莉·狄金森的《不服役》和拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852694

Yanbin Kang

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‘We know little of the king’s fair daughter, Claribel’: The Challenge of Islam in The Tempest “我们对国王美丽的女儿克拉贝尔知之甚少”:《暴风雨》中伊斯兰教的挑战

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852688

Ö. Öktem

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The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories: Towards a Collection of Creative Paratextual Writing or Literature in potentia 失落的图书馆和其他未完成的故事:走向创造性的文本写作或潜在的文学收藏

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852691

Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak

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Chinese Calligraphy and Painting: Dao 道, Wuwei 无为, and Wu 悟中国书画:《道》、《武威》、《武威》

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1857117

Zhiyong Mo

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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

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

J. Kosgei

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Radical Feminism and Androcide in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero 纳瓦尔·埃尔·萨达维的《原点上的女人》中的激进女权主义和女性主义

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ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2020.1852683

Catherine Addison

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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

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

L. Wright

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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

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

C. Stobie

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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

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

Deena Dinat

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

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

James Hodapp

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