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Introduction: Reinscribing Nuruddin Farah in African literature
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2020)
The commissioning of a theme issue on the work of Farah in a South African literary journal therefore is
noteworthy both in African continental and world literature contexts. Commemorating Farah’s career in Tydskrif
vir ...
“Connecting Mind to Pen, to Eyes, to Face, to Arms and Legs”: Toward a Performative and Decolonial Teaching Practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
The push to sustain online learning platforms that have been established in the wake of Covid-19 at South African universities raises a number of concerns. Apart from highlighting the stark and ongoing social inequities ...
Her heart lies at the feet of the mother: Transformations of the romance plot in Leila Aboulela’s minaret
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Sudanese-British writer, Leila Aboulela’s novel, Minaret (2005) transforms the
plot structure of Western literary and popular romance forms and develops
further the plotlines of African-American Muslim romance novels. ...
BECOMING-MINORITARIAN Constructions of coloured identities in creative writing projects at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The institutional history of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in some ways mirrors the paradoxes, ambiguities, absurdities, contradictions and possibilities – in short, the complexities – of the concept “coloured”. ...
In the heart of the country: The auto/biographies of Ayesha Dawood and Fatima Meer
(University of Cape Town, 2020)
South African struggle auto/biography has been a male-dominated
genre in which the political has correspondingly dominated the
personal. These life narratives have presented the formation of
relatively coherent, autonomous ...
Eros and Self-Realization: Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
(The Pennsylvania State University, 2020)
A comparative analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s Teir Eyes Were Watching
God and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru suggests the importance of romantic love to the self actualization of the heroines of these novels, whose authors share ...
Reopening Agaat: Afrikaans, Encyclopedic Narrative, World Literature
(Routledger, 2021)
This essay offers a meditation on Marlene van Niekerk’s 2004 novel Agaat as an encyclopedic (or, more exactly, a counter-encyclopedic) narrative, as defined–controversially–by Edward Mendelson in an influential 1976 polemic. ...
Oceans
(Routledge, 2021)
One day, long ago, a little boy was killed. He was used up, and discarded, and thrown away, left for secret dumping, the nameless dead, floating in a sea of sinking secrets.
All the Tokoloshes are dying
(Routledge, 2021)
The last line of defence, when even the most distant tokoloshe returned, Took up a place of arms or/of wisdom, to make the last stand of the world. Even the oldest ones returned, long away in their peace and nature after ...
Chapter 12 imagination and the eco-social crisis (or: why I write creative non-fiction)
(Brill, 2020)
Green Matters reflects on the ‘unique cultural function’ of literary texts with regard to
environmental and ecological concerns. Another way of putting this is to ask: what do
literary texts enable us to say or do in ...