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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. ...
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 ...