Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2230739
P. K. Verma
{"title":"Fen, Bog, and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis, by Annie Proulx","authors":"P. K. Verma","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2023.2230739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2023.2230739","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86157998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2230740
S. Kasembeli
{"title":"Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture, edited by Grace A. Musila","authors":"S. Kasembeli","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2023.2230740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2023.2230740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90444013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2230741
Niyi Akingbe
{"title":"Bearing the Burden, Divulging Emotional Fears: Secrets in Solitude by Olanike Asake Crownway","authors":"Niyi Akingbe","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2023.2230741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2023.2230741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85436782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2220605
M. Curr
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2221077
Fiona Taylor
Abstract Italian author Elena Ferrante has been described as the “master of the unsayable”. By examining two of her novels, namely My Brilliant Friend (New York: Europa Editions, 2016) and The Lying Life of Adults (London: Europa Editions, 2020), I attempt to explore her realist methodology and depiction of female friendship as a means of creating a sense of truth-telling. Both novels focus on friendships set in Naples, although My Brilliant Friend is set in the post-World War II era and The Lying Life of Adults in the 1990s. I examine Ferrante’s use of content, characterisation, the theme of friendship, and writerly style. By comparing the novels and her techniques in this way I identify what are classically realist methods as well as the means by which Ferrante sets herself apart by using language and subject matter in unique ways to achieve a sense of truthfulness. The article concludes with the proposition that both novels address unsayable or taboo issues in a stark denotative style. However, in My Brilliant Friend Ferrante achieves a deeper sense of this through a particular metaphorical technique that she terms frantumaglia, or fragmentation.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2224645
Gareth Cornwell
Abstract The discipline of literary studies finds itself in a nebulous zone that has been dubbed “postcritique”. The term recognises that the age of critique (for forty years the dominant paradigm within “literary theory”) is over. Teachers and researchers appear somewhat divided as to how to proceed. This article suggests that the answer lies in a return to “precritique”—not an era in time but a position created by review of the logical misstep that made possible the application of theory to the practice of literary criticism in the first place.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2215100
David Robinson
Abstract This article explores representations of natural phenomena in the second novel in the James Bond series, Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die (London: Penguin, [1954] 2008). Several critics have noted the enjoyment Fleming derived from his Jamaican home, adjacent to the ocean. His relationship with the ocean and nature, particularly birds, is evident in his writing. Although the novel is firmly in the thriller/spy genre, the many references to natural phenomena provide the reader with points of reflection about humanity and the environment. The article demonstrates that although Fleming wrote in the thriller/spy genre, a significant element of his writing has value in the field of ecocriticism. The article draws on critic Greg Garrard, who refers to those who use nature for their own purposes as the Cornucopians. Other critics whose work informs this reading of Fleming’s novel include Arne Naess, a central figure in Deep Ecology, and Rachel Carson, who pioneered our understanding of the human relationship with the oceans. The work of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (whom Fleming knew personally) and Peter Godfrey-Smith is also considered.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2213003
Putri Nurjayana Muin, Fitri Nurjayanti Muin
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Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2202515
Grace Danquah
Abstract Exile literature is saturated with the themes of rootlessness, loss of identity, and belonging. This article adopts an analytical perspective to explore Abena Busia’s poetry anthology Testimonies of Exile (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1990) as a prototype of exile literature. To inquire into how the selected poems project the identity of émigrés in relation to place and space, stylistic analysis of the poems was employed. The findings highlight Busia’s construction of the émigré’s identity, ranging from that of an enlightened, sophisticated enthusiast to that of a stricken straddler. Busia reconstructs the spaces occupied by émigrés as vociferous, since these spaces ascribe ever-mutating identities to them. Experiences, or what Busia refers to as testimonies of exile, disrupt and alter the émigré’s identity. Drawing inferences from Edward Said’s conceptualisation of the disposition of the émigré, it is argued that the place and space of the immigrant is not only secondary and bordering on the peripherals of foreign culture, but also contemptible. The immigrant’s identity formation undergoes different stages. As his/her “arrival identity” confronts elements in the new environment, the immigrant comes to revise, adopt, and adapt what is considered an acceptable or model personality. The émigré either fully integrates into society or resists change and clings to his/her “old” self. Busia’s feminist didacticism, evidenced in her exploration of pertinent feminist issues in the context of larger immigrant concerns, is obvious in her collection. The article concludes by noting that the female émigré, especially, has to grapple with a “desecrated place” where any form of sacred insistence on self-acclamation is met with disdain. The exile experience then becomes a wound which might never heal, even as the immigrant’s identity is permanently altered.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2206294
Fetson Kalua
Abstract An examination of a select number of Ben Okri’s works of fiction gives the impression that he is truly sui generis as a writer of fiction. His embrace of magical realism as a genre allows him to evoke a vision of the world in which the notion of time, rather than being seen in a linear fashion, is subject to multiple disruptions. Okri locates historical time, or temporality, in a liminal zone where it combines with space to yield identities which are indeterminate. In this article, I examine three of Ben Okri’s novels, namely The Famished Road (London: Johathan Cape, 1991), Astonishing the Gods (London: Head of Zeus, 1995), and The Age of Magic (London: Head of Zeus, 2014), in order to demonstrate the extent to which he destabilises all paradigms of temporality which present the notion of time as a self-evident and knowable presence or entity. I draw on narrative theory to demonstrate the extent to which Okri’s three works openly destabilise the paradigm of linear time, which is often seen as the definitive and ultimate approach to imagining and comprehending the notion of time, especially as it relates to works of fiction. Okri’s disruption of the Western, monadic notion of time is instructive in that it helps to move his readers into realms of alternative temporalities—in this case mystical time— where notions of spatialising historical time are interrogated. For Okri, time is not an objective phenomenon and, hence, he shows the extent to which there is always another time.
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