Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2022.2113681
M. Malaba
Abstract This article analyses the confluence between poverty and mental health as reflected in Charles Mungoshi’s fiction. Drawing on Crick Lund’s work, it evaluates the impact of low education, food insecurity, inadequate housing, low social class, low economic status, financial stress, low self-esteem, and depression in terms of the mental illness that afflicts many of Mungoshi’s characters. The factors that Lund highlights provide a working definition of poverty that is discussed in this study, through a close analysis of the major figures in Mungoshi’s novel Waiting for the Rain and his collections of short stories Coming of the Dry Season, Some Kinds of Wounds and Other Short Stories, and Walking Still. I also draw on some concepts analysed by Johannes Haushofer and Erns Fehr, and Augustine Nwoye’s definitions of categorical poverty and status-failure anxiety. Intellectual poverty is discussed in terms of certain cultural assumptions that determine the thoughts and actions of characters, as well as the poverty of leadership at the political level delineated by Mungoshi. The patriarchal nature of the societies depicted in the stories draws attention to the entrenched gender roles that prevail.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2022.2113685
Betty Govinden
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2022.2055769
Jenny Boźena du Preez
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2022.2050500
M. Chapman
Abstract The aim of this article is to return literary criticism to an interpretation and evaluation of the “literary” in literature. Cognisant of the influence of critique in its intrusion of continental philosophy on literary studies, the contention is that a shift from the abstraction of critique to the unfolding of the story can remind us of what literature can do, as distinct from what, say, philosophical discourse can do. Rather than configure the work to a single idea or set of ideas—the preference of critique—the approach is less theoretically construed and more subjective, less interrogative of underlying causes and determinations and more affirmative of literary achievement. Drawing on the insights of critics such as Hedley Twidle, Duncan Brown, Rita Felski, and J. M. Coetzee on the value of the “literary”, the argument seeks to invoke and evoke a style of intimacy in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. In illustration, I offer two case studies: my response to a compulsion to “storify” in the work of André Brink, and my application of a theoretical consideration to the literary criticism of Lewis Nkosi.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2022.2058169
R. Gray
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2022.2122168
Sope Maithufi
This editorial deliberately departs from the norm. It attempts to use the Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture delivered in 2021 by David Attwell to tie up the articles compiled for this issue of EAR, 39(1). The temptation to begin thus was difficult to resist; the lecture’s title, “‘Just What Gods Do You Serve, If Any?’: Wole Soyinka’s Chronicle and the Destruction of Postcolonial Reason”, intimates a far-reaching reflection on a vast literary terrain. This is because its focus on a first-generation African writer, Wole Soyinka, and particularly on his Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021), (re-)orients the reader to the consequences of Western colonial modernity for African epistemologies since at least the twentieth century.
这篇社论故意偏离常规。它试图使用David Attwell在2021年发表的Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture来捆绑为本期EAR编写的文章，39(1)。这样开始的诱惑是难以抗拒的;讲座的题目是“如果有神的话，你到底侍奉什么神?”“:索因卡的编年史和后殖民理性的毁灭”，对广阔的文学领域进行了深远的反思。这是因为它聚焦于第一代非洲作家沃勒·索因卡，尤其是他的《地球上最幸福的人的土地》(2021)，(重新)将读者定位于至少自20世纪以来西方殖民现代性对非洲认识论的影响。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2022.2066398
O. Salawu
Two key events of a highly destructive nature that continue to instruct the literary imagination in postcolonial Africa are the civil war that occurred between the government of Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra (1966–1970) and the Rwandan genocide (1990–1994). In literary works and other artistic enterprises, such as films, these events continue to animate responses that are aimed at reconstruction projects and guided by visions of reconciliation. The problem is that the aftermath of mass atrocities is also a site logged with the complications of representational practice. This is the crucial task Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba takes on in The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel. There are politics, biases, and ideologies that evolve from such an embarkation. In order to make genocide thinkable, more limitations arise for us to deal with in the African literary field.
两个具有高度破坏性的关键事件继续指导着后殖民时期非洲的文学想象力，这两个事件是尼日利亚政府和比夫拉共和国之间发生的内战(1966-1970)和卢旺达种族灭绝(1990-1994)。在文学作品和其他艺术事业，例如电影中，这些事件继续激起以重建项目为目标并以和解愿景为指导的反应。问题是，大规模暴行的后果也是一个记录着代表性实践复杂性的网站。这是Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba在《后殖民非洲种族灭绝小说》中承担的关键任务。有政治、偏见和意识形态从这样的出发演变而来。为了使种族灭绝变得可以想象，我们在非洲文学领域需要处理更多的限制。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-14DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1973705
R. Gray
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1986977
E. M. El-Shokrofy
Abstract With everyone under lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a not insubstantial number of people turned to Netflix, TV, and other media channels to cope with the psychologically oppressive measures taken to limit the spread of Covid-19. Ahmed El-Ghandour, who used several episodes of Al Daheeh to explore the Covid-19 pandemic through the use of dark humour, was probably the most famous YouTuber in Egypt at the time. As an MA student in biology at Hong Kong University, El-Ghandour introduces scientific subjects in a humorous way (pop science), partly serious and partly candid. During the pandemic, El Ghandour posted many episodes, three of which will be discussed in depth in this article. The episodes achieved unprecedented success and popularity, as evidenced by the large number of subscribers to his channel during the pandemic, providing fruitful ground for research. The aim of this article is to shed light on the ways humour can have an effect in times of crisis, thus ultimately giving hope to a distressed population. The article adopts an analytical approach focusing on three types of black humour to investigate the three chosen episodes. Humour arguably never fails to educate and instruct in times of crisis. El-Ghandour taps into that potential to the full, thereby bringing hope for survival to a pandemic-stricken Egypt and the Arab world in general.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2021.1979325
D. Byrne
This essay is presented in grateful memory of David Norman Ralph Levey, born in 1950, who passed away in May 2020 of complications associated with cervical surgery. He was promoted to associate professor in 2011, but I, and most of his colleagues and friends, knew him as either “Dave” or “David”, and in order to honour the memory of our long-standing friendship and collegiality, I will allude to him by his first name in this essay. This is not to be taken as a sign of disrespect for the deceased. On the contrary, I mean it as a gesture of respect for his habit of treating everyone, from cleaners to councillors, as equals.
这篇文章是为了纪念David Norman Ralph Levey，他出生于1950年，于2020年5月因颈椎手术并发症去世。他在2011年被提升为副教授，但我和他的大多数同事和朋友都知道他是“Dave”或“David”，为了纪念我们长期的友谊和合作，我将在本文中间接提到他的名字。这并不是对死者的不尊重。相反，我的意思是对他对待每个人的习惯表示尊重，从清洁工到议员，都是平等的。
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