Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2247239
Elleke Boehmer
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023)
《非洲英语研究》(第66卷第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2247243
Robert Muponde
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023)
《非洲英语研究》(第66卷第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2247712
Damon Galgut
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023)
《非洲英语研究》(第66卷第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2247245
Aretha Phiri
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023)
《非洲英语研究》(第66卷第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2247244
Kirby Manià
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023)
《非洲英语研究》(第66卷第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2247238
Sofia Kostelac
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023)
《非洲英语研究》(第66卷第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2247710
Helena van Urk
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2023)
《非洲英语研究》(第66卷第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-06-16eCollection Date: 2023-06-01DOI: 10.2478/jvetres-2023-0034
Jelena Maksimović Zorić, Ljubiša Veljović, Vladimir Radosavljević, Dimitrije Glišić, Jasna Kureljušić, Jelena Maletić, Božidar Savić
Introduction: Swine influenza A viruses (swIAVs) are characterised by high mutation rates and zoonotic and pandemic potential. In order to draw conclusions about virulence in swine and pathogenicity to humans, we examined the existence of molecular markers and accessory proteins, cross-reactivity with vaccine strains, and resistance to antiviral drugs in five strains of H1N1 swIAVs.
Material and methods: Amino acid (AA) sequences of five previously genetically characterised swIAVs were analysed in MEGA 7.0 software and the Influenza Research Database.
Results: Amino acid analysis revealed three virus strains with 590S/591R polymorphism and T271A substitution within basic polymerase 2 (PB2) AA chains, which cause enhanced virus replication in mammalian cells. The other two strains possessed D701N and R251K substitutions within PB2 and synthesised PB1-F2 protein, which are the factors of increased polymerase activity and virulence in swine. All strains synthesised PB1-N40, PA-N155, PA-N182, and PA-X proteins responsible for enhanced replication in mammalian cells and downregulation of the immune response of the host. Mutations detected within haemagglutinin antigenic sites imply the antigenic drift of the five analysed viruses in relation to the vaccine strains. All viruses show susceptibility to neuraminidase inhibitors and baloxavir marboxil, which is important in situations of incidental human infections.
Conclusion: The detection of virulence markers and accessory proteins in the analysed viruses suggests their higher propensity for replication in mammalian cells, increased virulence, and potential for transmission to humans, and implies compromised efficacy of influenza vaccines.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2193472
Cengiz Karagöz, Timuçin Buğra Edman
Abstract In The Hairy Ape, Eugene O’Neill depicts the shortcomings of an industrialized society: class distinctions are made stark as we witness the upper class occupying a financially superior and luxurious position above the exploited proletariat. Deviating from previous anthropocentric readings of O’Neill’s text that fail to notice the play’s non-human concerns, this article posits a zoocritical analysis that is interested in the play’s use of the zoo animal as a metaphor that informs our understanding of the proletariat as their freedoms are restricted and are violently exploited. The explicit references that liken the working class to wild animals and apes in zoos are suggestive of the common points at which the struggles of animals and the working class intersect. Like animals tasked only to please humans and whose life is restricted to zoos, the workers, serving the interests of the upper class, spend their days mostly shovelling coal into the engine of a transatlantic liner and feel a sense of isolation as they rarely make contact with others outside the ship. Yank, the protagonist, when imprisoned, falls into a fit of fury that reminds us of how zoos are like prisons and vice versa. O’Neill implicitly suggests kinship to animals that have been oppressed and tortured for the sake of human interests.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2023.2193470
L. Englund
Abstract Resilient autobiography emphasizes the relational aspect of life writing, drawing on human relationships that have added to the adversity in life recounted, but also builds on human connections that have encouraged and enabled survival. This paper examines resilience in Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, which recounts Wamariya’s experiences of fleeing the Rwandan genocide. The other text considered is Abdi Nor Iftin and Max Alexander’s Call Me American: A Memoir, which depicts Iftin’s life in Somalia during the 1990s and relocation to Kenya and then the USA. The two autobiographical texts present resilience not only as survival but as embodied within the memoirs through the selves presented in the narratives. Resilience emerges as endurance in the face of hardship and suffering, and as a counterforce in various relational contexts, to traumatic personal and collective pasts. Both memoirs exemplify the devastating effects of war, displacement and personal loss, where trauma becomes entrenched in efforts made for survival. The attempt to reorder and repossess trauma can also be seen as an act of resilience. The personal narrative is interpreted and put into writing from the perspective of the person whose life is in focus but also through the eyes of an external observer. The life recounted can therefore be seen as both autobiographically and biographically produced.
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