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Domesticating the English Language in Niyi Osundare’s The Word Is an Egg Niyi Osundare 的《文字是蛋》中的英语驯化

Imbizo Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/12196

J. Alexander

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Sexuality in Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms 阿布巴卡尔-亚当-易卜拉欣《绯红花季》中的性爱

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/14808

Israel Oluwaseun Adeleke

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The Representation of Black Queer Masculinities on YouTube in the Film Out of This World 电影《Out of This World》中 YouTube 上的黑人同性恋男性形象

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/14346

Lwando Majikijela

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Tactics of Resistance in Zimbabwean Post-2000 Street Theatre Performances 津巴布韦 2000 年后街头戏剧表演中的抵抗策略

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/13635

Peace Mukwara, Tatenda Mangosho

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Images of the Absurd: Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus and The Outsider and Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boy 荒诞的形象：阿尔伯特-加缪的《西西弗斯神话》和《局外人》以及彼得-亚伯拉罕的《矿工男孩

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/14562

So Azumurana

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Poetics of Environmental Imagination and Nostalgia in Contemporary Tanzanian Poetry 坦桑尼亚当代诗歌中的环境想象和怀旧诗学

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/13646

John Wakota

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South African Literature and the “Strange Seductiveness” of the Fantastic 南非文学与奇幻小说的“奇异诱惑”

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/12345

Lobna Ben Salem

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Generating Sympathy for Specific Characters and Events in Mandla Langa’s “The Dead Men Who Lost Their Bones” 在曼德拉·兰加的《失去骨头的死人》中产生对特定人物和事件的同情

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/12447

Dzunisani Sibuyi

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Niger Delta Subaltern Agency and Resistance in Obari Gomba’s The Ascent Stone and Stephen Kekeghe’s Rumbling Sky 尼日尔三角洲下级机构和抵抗在奥巴里贡巴的上升的石头和斯蒂芬Kekeghe的隆隆的天空

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/12532

Mathias Iroro Orhero

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The Negative Portrayal of Women in Francis Nyamnjoh’s A Nose for Money as a Challenge to Male Oppression 弗朗西斯·尼亚姆乔的《金钱嗅觉》对女性的负面刻画是对男性压迫的挑战

Imbizo Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/10918

Édith Félicité Koumtoudji

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