Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096762
Published in English Studies in Africa (Vol. 65, No. 2, 2022)
《非洲英语研究》(第65卷第2期，2022年)
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096751
Harry Olufunwa
Abstract This article examines Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference from the perspective of the novel’s seminal ‘I Am Powerful’ scene the multiple interpretations of which encapsulate the issues of feminine independence of thought and action which the novel portrays through Deola Bello, the main character. As aspiration, motto and model of ideal behaviour, ‘I Am Powerful’ is very significant to her situation as a black woman reacting to the various pressures of life in a major western metropolis, particularly her desire to engage in meaningful relationships and live a fulfilling life on her own terms, rather than those prescribed to her by others. The article refracts ‘I Am Powerful’ through the perspectives of agency, autonomy and audacity which serve as markers of Deola’s growth. It is argued that each element marks a specific stage in her progression towards an increased self-awareness which incorporates a better understanding of the dilemmas, triumphs and challenges she encounters as a black woman in the diaspora.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096750
J. Henning
Abstract Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country is an intimate account of the lifelong search for ‘home’ by its autobiographical narrator, the child of exiled South African parents. My essay argues that Msimang’s figuring of a complicated, nationally-organized external realm through the exilic subjectivity of its narrator provides an opportunity to read a series of spaces in the text as what Michel Foucault, in ‘Of Other Spaces’ (1986), calls ‘utopias’ and ‘heterotopias’. Simply put, South Africa exists as a non-real space – a utopia – for most of the memoir. It carries down telephone wires and from television screens into the mind of Sonke, where it is reproduced as an alternate, imagined version of itself. On the other hand, ‘real’ spaces – living rooms, principals’ offices, family homes – all develop characteristics of Foucauldian heterogeneity. They are sites within sites or, as Peter Johnson explains, microcosms of reverse social ordering. Rather than producing an overly theoretical rendering of a deeply personal text, my essay aims to show the benefits of Foucauldian approaches in conceptualizing and understanding the complicated ways in which exiled-subjects occupy space in our nationally-organized world.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096754
Imomotimi Armstrong
Abstract This paper begins with the contention that scholars of African oral literature have exhibited a ‘best avoided’ approach towards formula, the most important aspect of the oral-formulaic theory of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord. It argues that, even in this century, the dominant approaches to the study of African folklore have been performance, Marxism, formalism, structuralism, feminism and functionalism. Therefore, building on the meager literature on formula, this article investigates its occurrence in traditional Ịjọ poetry, particularly in the praise chants of Chief Adolphus Munamuna. It points out that the formula density is high in the bard’s praise poems. This article also notes that formulas are useful and necessary to the Ịjọ bard because they enable him to compose his poems rapidly in the course of performance.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096759
M. Hanif, Tahereh Rezaei
J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians explores the possibility and limits of rationalizing and dominating the ‘other’ through an experience of dislocation. This article argues that the experience of topographic and aesthetic dislocation has the power to transform the Magistrate’s ethical standards in relation to the ‘other’. The novel unwinds a space in which to explore the postcolonial sublime, in terms of which the tension between the self and other is concealed yet, in the progress of the narrative, a politics of forgetting gives way to the ethics of remembrance. This article treats aesthetics as a discursive field and the novel as an instance of an allegorical mode. It intends to explain how manipulation of aesthetic norms can become politically interventionist and make the formulation of the postcolonial sublime an ethical obligation.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096749
C. Theron
Abstract This article is a comparative reading of Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844) and Julia Martin’s A Millimetre of Dust: Visiting Ancestral Sites (2008), travelogues that explore erstwhile frontier zones in view of a changing social landscape inflected with the rhetoric of democracy. The comparison is based on the thematic parallels between literature from the American Renaissance and post-apartheid South Africa in which the landscape is portrayed in metonymic relation to the nation. Drawing on the field of world literature and the notion that texts might undergo transformation in the way they are interpreted due to their movement across space and time, the article employs a ‘bifocal’ lens that produces a contrapuntal engagement between mid-nineteenth century America and post-apartheid South Africa.
摘要本文是对玛格丽特·富勒（Margaret Fuller）1843年（1844年）的《湖上的夏天》（Summer on the Lakes）和朱莉娅·马丁（Julia Martin。这种比较是基于美国文艺复兴时期和种族隔离后的南非文学之间的主题相似性，在这些文学中，风景被描绘成与国家的转喻关系。这篇文章借鉴了世界文学领域的观点，以及文本由于在空间和时间上的移动而可能在解读方式上发生变化的观点，采用了一种“双焦点”的视角，在19世纪中期的美国和种族隔离后的南非之间产生了一种对位的接触。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096753
Chukwunwike Anolue
Abstract Time and nature are two intertwined concepts. They are so inseparable that there is a temporal index to every spatial event and vice versa. Nothing happens in a space except at a time; neither does anything happen at a time except in a space. For the Nigerian poet, Niyi Osundare, time and space occupy a prominent place in his oeuvre, but critics tend to privilege one and ignore the other in their analyses of his poetry. Osundare also frequently poetizes animist deities of Ikere-Ekiti, the town in Southwest Nigeria where he was born and raised. He uses his poetry as a medium to worship the deities. This paper is a study of time and nature in relation to an animist god of Ikere-Ekiti. It fuses ecocriticism and temporal analysis to shed light on ‘A Song for Olosunta,’ a panegyric which evokes an annual festival in honour of Olosunta, a lithic god worshipped by Osundare and his fellow Ikere-Ekiti animists. Against the background of the annual festival inscribed in the poem, I examine the god as an ecological and temporal icon, highlighting the differences between his shrine and its surroundings; and between his timescape and the timescape outside the shrine.
时间和自然是两个相互交织的概念。它们是如此不可分割，以至于每个空间事件都有一个时间索引，反之亦然。在一个空间里，除了某个时间，什么都不会发生；除了在一个空间里，任何事情都不会在一个时间发生。对于尼日利亚诗人尼伊·奥森达雷来说，时间和空间在他的作品中占据着突出的位置，但评论家在分析他的诗歌时往往会优先考虑其中一个，而忽略另一个。Osundare还经常将他出生和长大的尼日利亚西南部小镇Ikere Ekiti的万物有灵论神灵诗意化。他用诗歌作为崇拜神灵的媒介。本文研究了时间和自然与一位万物有灵论的伊凯雷·埃基提神的关系。它融合了生态批评和时间分析，为《献给奥洛桑塔的歌》（A Song for Olosunta）提供了线索，这首歌是一首赞美诗，唤起了一年一度的节日，以纪念奥伦代尔和他的Ikere Ekiti万物有灵论者所崇拜的石器时代的神奥洛桑塔。在诗中所刻的一年一度的节日背景下，我将神视为一个生态和时间的象征，强调了他的神殿与其周围环境之间的差异；以及在他的时代景观和神殿外的时代景观之间。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2096760
L. Wright
Abstract This article sets out the South African background to a previously unknown play by John Bright, the Hollywood scriptwriter, based on Wulf Sachs’s famous psycho-documentary Black Hamlet (1937) and written in conversation with him. The playscript appears as an Appendix to this number of English Studies in Africa. The aim is to provide pertinent information to enable international readers and theatre practitioners to assess the script’s historical value and theatrical potential. The article concentrates on the sociological and anthropological moment from which Wulf Sachs’s work emerged and its relevance for understanding the playscript John Bright wrote. Further literary-historical detail about the play’s discovery, focused mainly on America, is available in Wright (2021).
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Pub Date : 2022-04-28DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2022.2059931
(2022). Notes on Contributors. English Studies in Africa: Vol. 65, A Century of Modernism in South African Literature and Literary Culture. Guest Editor: Rick de Villiers, pp. 87-88.
(2022)。关于贡献者的说明。非洲英语研究:第65卷，一个世纪的现代主义在南非文学和文学文化。客座编辑:Rick de Villiers，第87-88页。
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