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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
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12031
Micayla Vellai, H. Wittenberg
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Trauma and the Dialectics of Recuperation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea 古尔纳《海边》中的创伤与疗养辩证法
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/11001
K. Goddard, Sheena Goddard
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The (De)Colonial Praxis: Confronting Present-Day Dilemmas of Transforming Knowledges and Societies in Kopano Matlwa’s Spilt Milk (非)殖民实践:在科帕诺·马特瓦的《打翻的牛奶》中面对知识和社会转型的当今困境
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/11455
Ndumiso Ncube
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引用次数: 0
Into our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective, by Neil Lazarus 《进入我们的劳动:世界文学视角下的工作及其表现》，尼尔·拉扎勒斯著
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-24 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/11793
C. Sandwith
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“A New Race of Immortals”: A Posthumanist Reading of “Poe Posthumous; or, the Light-House” “不朽的新种族”:《坡死后》的后人文主义解读或者，灯塔。”
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/11259
Xinshuo Zhou, Quan Wang
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The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace, by Alice Brittan 《惊奇的艺术:对天赋和优雅的反思》，爱丽丝·布里坦著
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-17 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/11721
Alan Northover
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Decolonising Adamastor: From The Lusiads to Thirteen Cents 去殖民化Adamastor:从《lucusiads》到《十三美分》
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-28 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/10889
L. Graham
{"title":"Decolonising Adamastor: From The Lusiads to Thirteen Cents","authors":"L. Graham","doi":"10.25159/1753-5387/10889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/10889","url":null,"abstract":"In 1999 and 2000, two texts appeared that aimed to grapple with post-apartheid South Africa as a new nation, and that doubled back on national myths of origin. One of these, a massive painting entitled T’kama Adamastor by Cyril Coetzee, commissioned for the William Cullen Library at the University of the Witwatersrand, focused on the figure of Adamastor that had been created by Luís Vaz de Camões in his epic poem The Lusiads (1572), but as reinterpreted by André Brink in his novel Cape of Storms: The First Life of Adamastor (1993). In 2000, another text appeared that re-examined and reimagined creation myths, and also referenced the Adamastor story. This was K. Sello Duiker’s award-winning debut novel Thirteen Cents. As I argue, Thirteen Cents presents a radical break with the ways in which the Adamastor story has been imagined by white writers and artists. Part of the aim of the essay is to revisit and assess Andries Walter Oliphant’s critical interventions on the question of a national South African culture, and on the Adamastor story itself.","PeriodicalId":43700,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literary Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85180848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Agitations for Self-Identification and (Re)presentation in Selected Tshivenda Poetry 《奇旺达诗选》中自我认同与(再)呈现的激荡
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-17 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/10742
Moffat Sebola
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引用次数: 0
Literêr-teoretiese benaderings tot literatuurstudie in die tagtiger- en negentigerjare
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12574
Ina Wolfaardt-Gräbe
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Reconsidering Literatures: Directions in South African Literary Studies 反思文学:南非文学研究的方向
IF 0.2 4区 文学
Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/12603
Reinhardt Fourie, R. A. Northover, H. Viljoen
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