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Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die (1990) in post-apartheid South Africa – a critical rereading
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Rereading Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die nearly thirty years after it was first published in 1990 proved to be a complex, rewarding experience. Setting her story of the lives of rural African women in KwaZulu-Natal ...
A comparative reading of Elleke Boehmer’s Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins’ The Boy in the River: different attitudes towards the possibility of cultural ‘mixedness’
(Routledge, 2016)
This article examines two contemporary texts that present different attitudes towards cultural diversity in Britain: Elleke Boehmer’s novel Nile Baby and Richard Hoskins’ memoir The Boy in the River. Boehmer, who is an ...
The muslim "who has faith" in Leila Aboulela's novels Minaret (2005) and Lyrics Alley (2009)
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This essay analyses Leila Aboulela's narrative techniques when depicting a Muslim “who has faith” in her two most recent novels. In Minaret she presents religion as a source of strength for her female narrator-protagonist ...