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Mimetic Presuppositions: On the Epitextual Responses to Two Poems in English by Marlene van Niekerk 拟态预设:论玛琳·范·尼克尔克两首英文诗的外延反应
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1887651
Reinhardt Fourie
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引用次数: 2
Unburying Silences: Trauma and Recuperative Narrative in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light 揭开沉默:Zoë威库姆《在光中玩耍》的创伤与复原叙事
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1887653
Sheena Goddard, K. Goddard
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引用次数: 2
Contributors 贡献者
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1887658
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引用次数: 0
History and Literature: Magic Realism and Italian POWs in a South African Novel 历史与文学:一部南非小说中的魔幻现实主义与意大利战俘
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1887654
Mariëtte van Graan
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引用次数: 2
Translating Taboo: Blasphemy in an Afrikaans Translation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales 禁忌的翻译:《坎特伯雷故事集》的南非荷兰语翻译中的亵渎
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1887649
John Boje
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引用次数: 1
Dystopian Ecologies: Thinking about South African Ecocriticism through a Comparative Reading of Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion and Alettie van den Heever’s Stof [Dust] 反乌托邦生态学:从亨丽埃塔·罗斯-英尼斯的《绿狮子》和阿莱蒂·范登·希弗的《尘土》的比较阅读看南非生态批评
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1887650
L. Viljoen
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引用次数: 5
Redaksionele nota Redaksionele注
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2021.1887657
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Editorial Note 编辑注意
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-19 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2020.1822606
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Struggle Handshakes and UDF Rasta Colours: White Imaginings and the Appropriation of the Struggle in South African Post-Apartheid Youth Literature 斗争的握手和UDF拉斯塔色彩:白人想象和南非后种族隔离青年文学中斗争的挪用
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2020.1822602
Silindiwe Sibanda
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引用次数: 1
Draft-dodgers in 1980s South Africa: Styles of Liminality and Lostness 20世纪80年代南非的逃避兵役者:阈限和迷失的风格
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Journal of Literary Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2020.1822604
P. Mason
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