The articles in this issue of The English Academy Review are all, in one way or another, concerned with reactions to oppression and conflict. In all cases, the primary focus is on texts that come from the later decades of the twentieth century or the first years of the twenty-first. Many of these primary texts, while set in contemporary times, also look back to oppressions and conflicts of the past, and to ways in which these have shaped the present. Issues pertaining to colonization and slavery recur, as does an African context. Some of the articles also actively consider ways of reflecting on oppressions and, in the process of recording these ways, provide forms of resolution. The first article is Myrtle Hooper’s ‘Can Themba, Jean Hart and “Crepuscule”: Remembering Sophiatown’. Themba’s short story is based on his brief relationship with Hart, an Englishwoman who lived in Johannesburg for a time. She and Themba belonged to what Hooper aptly labels as ‘the Drum crowd’. Themba’s story is

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非洲（和其他一些）压迫

本期《英语学院评论》中的文章都以一种或另一种方式关注对压迫和冲突的反应。在所有情况下，主要关注来自 20 世纪后期或 21 世纪初的文本。许多这些主要文本虽然发生在当代，但也回顾了过去的压迫和冲突，以及它们塑造现在的方式。与殖民化和奴隶制有关的问题反复出现，非洲的情况也是如此。一些文章还积极考虑反思压迫的方式，并在记录这些方式的过程中提供解决的形式。第一篇文章是 Myrtle Hooper 的“Can Themba、Jean Hart 和“Crepuscule”：Remembering Sophiatown。Themba 的短篇小说基于他与 Hart 的短暂关系，一位曾在约翰内斯堡生活过一段时间的英国女人。她和 Themba 属于 Hooper 贴切地贴上“鼓群”的标签。Themba 的故事是