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African “ghosts” and the myth of “Italianness”: the presence of migrant writers in Italian literature

In this article, I analyze the cultural meaning of the emergence of an African migrant literature in Italy at the …

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Ambiguous agency in the vulnerable trafficked body: reading Sanusi’s Eyo and Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street

The narrativization of the trafficked body in the novels of Abidemi Sanusi and Chika Unigwe allows for a contemplation of …

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Introduction: ghostly borders

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The hauntological imaginary in Bernadine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists (2005)

This article examines the novel, Soul Tourists (2005), by Bernadine Evaristo, a black British writer of Nigerian and English descent, …

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Dog guides as witnesses with specific reference to Miles and Houellebecq

Since Wild Dog first crawled from the Wet Wild Woods and laid his head on Woman’s lap, he has helped …

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Experimenting with a new tragic model: Elechi Amadi’s Isiburu

Aristotle’s Poetics has remained one of the most resourceful reference materials to literary critics and theorists over the centuries from …

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Wildness and colonialism in “The Story of Two Dogs” by Doris Lessing

Dogs play an important role in colonial society, especially in Africa. While the project of colonisation involves settling in a …

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“They’ve killed the dogs!”: Land, literature and canines in contemporary Zimbabwe

This article explores the positioning of the dog in representations of farm takeovers in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2017. It …

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Dark ecology and the representation of canids in Deon Meyer’s Fever

Deon Meyer’s post-apocalyptic novel, Fever, opens with Nico Storm, the narrator, and his father being attacked by dogs. Nico is …

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Oswald Pirow’s Ashambeni (1955): a “history” of dogs, humans, werewolves

In this paper I explore the human-dog interaction in Oswald Pirow’s Ashambeni (1955). I focus on the position of the …

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Under Glass (Claire Robertson)