Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2251292
Sadia Zulfiqar
Through a focus on Mariam Bâ’s So Long a Letter, this paper argues for the importance of indigenous feminist theories in interpreting the work of African women writers. I argue that western systems...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2251291
Goutam Karmakar, Rajendra Chetty
Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021), a graphic verse, is a symbolic depiction of the repercussions of the capitalist episteme that sanctions resource extraction, ecological ...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2251298
David Mann
Caitlin Stobie's collection of poems, Thin Slices, is an experiment in form, literature, philosophy, science, and nature. In science, thin slicing is a method of preparing samples for observation i...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2251295
Judith Coullie
Autobiographies are about selves, and one can reasonably expect that in writing an autobiography the authorial subject is making a claim of personal significance, and is, in the text, engaging in s...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2251294
Niyi Akingbe
This article identifies the trope of impoliteness, otherwise called ‘radical rudeness’, in Stella Nyanzi’s collection of poetry, No Roses from My Mouth. When does impoliteness or sarcasm become rad...
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2251288
Published in Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023)
发表于当前写作:南部非洲的文本和接收(第35卷，第2期，2023年)
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2251289
Saswat Samay Das, Ananya Roy Pratihar, Dipra Sarkhel
In our article, we consider the current ethics of planetarity and decolonial grammatology in the light of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse. We begin by showing how Ghosh creates a form of anecdota...
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2023.2167403
J. Murray
This article considers the ways in which selected contemporary novels represent the limitation of options as a primary consequence of climate change. I will offer an ecocritical literary analysis of the following four novels by female authors: The New Wilderness (2020) by Diane Cook, A Children’s Bible (2020) by Lydia Millet, Weather (2020) by Jenny Offill and The Last Migration (2021) by Charlotte McConaghy. The novels present worlds where very definite choices, in already severely constrained contexts, need to be made. These choices are matters of survival and they have nothing to do with fulfilling constructed consumer dreams. The texts offer worlds in which characters navigate radically new terrains where survival is an urgent imperative. I will consider how the notions of limitation and shrinking (of their worlds and their options) recur as leitmotifs throughout the novels and I will explore how this shrinkage forces them to reconsider not only their own actions but also the consequences of the actions of people in general, with a specific focus on the causal relationship between those actions and climate change.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2023.2167405
Hania A. M. Nashef
The 2019 novel by the South African-Australian Nobel laureate, J M Coetzee, The Death of Jesus, is a third book in a sequence that includes Jesus in its title; like its predecessors it follows the lives of a recently constructed family in the dystopian Spanish-speaking towns of Novilla and Estrella. The surreal trilogy, which began with The Childhood of Jesus (2013), and then The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), presents us with unreal worlds, leaving us searching for meaning. This fable-like fantasy, which expands the author’s ‘late style’, challenges the genre of fiction itself. Typical of late style, the trilogy resists closure and resolution. The debated ideas are generated by characters who were forced to forsake their memories and histories. Even though the protagonists begin to embody the very ideas they debate, answers are not forthcoming.
南非裔澳大利亚人、诺贝尔文学奖得主J·M·库切(J M Coetzee) 2019年的小说《耶稣之死》(The Death of Jesus)是第三部以耶稣为标题的小说;和前作一样，它讲述了一个新组建的家庭在反乌托邦的西班牙语城镇诺维拉和埃斯特雷拉的生活。从2013年的《耶稣的童年》到2016年的《耶稣的学生时代》，超现实主义三部曲向我们展示了虚幻的世界，让我们寻找意义。这种寓言般的幻想，扩展了作者的“晚期风格”，挑战了小说本身的类型。典型的晚期风格，三部曲抵制结束和解决。这些有争议的观点是由被迫放弃记忆和历史的人物产生的。即使主角开始体现他们辩论的想法，答案也不会出现。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2023.2167395
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