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Agitations for Self-Identification and (Re)presentation in Selected Tshivenda Poetry
Tshivenda poetry thematises varied notions of selfhood and culture, among others. Within this thematisation, longings for the freedom to self-identify …
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Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited by Minna Johanna Niemi
Book Review
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A Zulu king in conversation with the world: Translational and transcultural strategies in Chaka (1981) by Thomas Mofolo
This article discusses Chaka (1981) by Thomas Mofolo as a transcultural text written by a transcultural author. It had hybrid …
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n Voelvlug oor die ontwikkeling en die gebruik van Kaapse Afrikaans (Kaaps) in Afrikaanse dramas
In this article, I give a bird’s eye view of the development of Kaaps (Afrikaans) drama: from the early days …
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Eliot and Beckett’s Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation, by Rick de Villiers
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Contagion, a Futurist South African Climate Crisis and a Hidden Drug Pandemic in Mohale Mashigo’s Intruders: Short Stories
The article draws on typologies of contagion, particularly matrices and patterns of virality considered here as tropes from the Bakhtinian …
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Literature and the Battle against Covid-19 in Zimbabwe: A Study of Flight Mlambo’s Digital Verse
This article evaluates the contribution of digital literature in the struggle against the novel coronavirus contagion, focusing on Flight Rufaro …
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Twitter Diary and COVID-19 Survival: The Case of @acielumumba
This article examines the Twitter diary of Lumumba William Gerald Mutumanje, popularly known as Ace Lumumba in Zimbabwe, which chronicles …
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Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives
Special Issue Introduction
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Dystopian Futures: Ugandan Science Fiction and Post-Apocalypse Contagions
Uganda, like most countries on the African continent, has in the recent past grappled with existential pandemics such as AIDS, …
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Imagined Identity and Human Rights in the Post-pandemic World of Lauren Beukes’s Afterland
The article concerns itself with representative readers’ responses to Afterland by Lauren Beukes. In line with Beukes’s reputation, the novel …
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Anxious Competition: Exploring the Poetic Imaginarium of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malawi
As I write this article in mid-September 2021, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has claimed the lives …
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Life Writing During a Pandemic: Making Sense of the “New Normal” in Lockdown Extended: Corona Chronicles (2020)
This article focuses on the bourgeoning Covid-19 life narratives written by South African authors, who narrate their ordeals and the …
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Writing a South African Pandemic Moment: Inequality and Violence in The Lockdown Collection
This article examines how the overwhelmingly dominant genre in The Lockdown Collection (2020), the personal essay, is an appropriate medium …
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Being Human in a Time of Catastrophe: African Feminism, Feminist Humaneness, and the Poetry of Joyce Ash
This article explores what it means to be human in a time of health catastrophe, and introduces the concept of …