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Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture, by Andy Carolin 种族隔离后的同性性行为:文学和视觉文化中不安分的身份

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13825

T. McCormick

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Mapping Abjection: Dissecting Racial and Sexual Boundaries in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg 测绘落魄:在马克·格维瑟的《约翰内斯堡失物招领》中剖析种族和性别的界限

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12804

Christopher Wayne Koekemoer

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Power and the Prison: A Foucauldian Perspective on Herman Charles Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and Willemsdorp 权力与监狱:从福柯视角看赫尔曼·查尔斯·博斯曼的《冷石壶》和《威廉斯多普》

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/13007

Farzanah Loonate

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The Gender Performances of Margaret Atwood’s Aunt Lydia in "The Testaments" 玛格丽特·阿特伍德《遗嘱》中莉迪亚姨妈的性别表现

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12977

Jordyn Weiss

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The Multispecies City in McCarthy’s Suttree and Duiker’s Thirteen Cents 麦卡锡的《苏特里》和杜克的《十三美分》中的多物种城市

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-05 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12927

D. Wylie

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Manga: A Critical Guide by Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart 铃木茂和罗纳德·斯图尔特的《漫画:批判指南》

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12576

J. Van Huyssteen

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Solipsistic breakthroughs or stymying collectives? Historical duels in August Wilson’s Radio Golf. 唯我论的突破还是阻碍集体?奥古斯特威尔逊电台高尔夫的历史决斗。

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12303

O. Seda

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Writing the Elusive Narrative of Soweto-Based Community Theatre, 1984–1994 写以索韦托为基础的社区剧院的难以捉摸的叙事，1984-1994

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-23 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12201

A. Xaba

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Wagar and Motley “Archaic” Vestiges: A Postmodernist Reading of Contemporary Somali Fiction 瓦格尔和莫特利“古老”的痕迹:当代索马里小说的后现代主义解读

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/11776

Andrew Nyongesa

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Intermedial Reflections on Analogue Photography and Digital Visuality in Moxyland 《幻境》中模拟摄影与数字视觉的中间反思

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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12031

Micayla Vellai, H. Wittenberg

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