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Not Your Usual Eco-poet English Academy Review Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Geoffrey Haresnape
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Great White English Academy Review Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Geoffrey Haresnape
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“Bearing the Burden, Divulging Emotional Fears: Secrets in Solitude by Olanike Asake Crownway” English Academy Review Pub Date : 2024-03-12
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Five Japanese Haikuists Rewritten by a Tsunami English Academy Review Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Geoffrey Haresnape
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Nature of Landscape Music English Academy Review Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jonathan Geidt
Many diverse notions are involved in what is loosely called “landscape music”. This short discussion article distinguishes five categories. They are music inspired by landscapes, music that depicts...
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A Textual Meander through Items of Ecological Interest at Quagga Rare Books and Art English Academy Review Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Margaret Kooy
This article considers various ecological issues sourced from numerous books, artworks, and ephemera at a Cape Town bookshop named Quagga Rare Books and Art. Written by an employee, something of th...
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Morning Ritual English Academy Review Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Wendy Woodward
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Tears of the Weaver: Short Stories, by Zaheera Jina Asvat English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Naomi Nkealah
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Grocer, the Hunting Dog, and the Solar Park: “This Web Radiating Out from Every Object” English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Julia Martin
In this essay I meet an elderly grocer and a caged dog, and visit a solar park. In telling the story of these particular encounters I hope to use the genre of creative non-fiction to offer the read...
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“A World Not Our Own to Define”: Ecological Solutions to Global Catastrophe in the Works of Barry Lopez English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Gail Fincham
In this article, I look at the multigeneric writings of Barry Lopez, namely Arctic Dreams (London: Vintage, 1986) and Horizon (London: Vintage, 2019), as well as two collections of his essays publi...
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Arguing for Environmental Education: Sustainability and Decoloniality in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Goutam Karmakar, Rajendra Chetty
Environmental education aims to tackle the diminishing engagement between human beings and the natural environment, identify possible remedies, and facilitate positive transformations. Within the c...
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Plunging into the Depths of Scholarly Critique English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Rosemary Gray
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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The Reader, the Rodent, and the Viral Regeneration of Fear: Kafka’s “The Burrow” as a Covid-19 Allegory English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Mohammed Hamdan
Despite the varied responses to Covid-19 across the world, the pandemic created a universal culture of fear that reshaped human perception of public spaces, social relations, and the meaning of soc...
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Hunger for the Light: The Challenges of an African Life, by Rosemary Alice Gray English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Nhlanhla Maake
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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President’s Report English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Owen Seda
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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About the English Academy of Southern Africa English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-14
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Critical Humanism and Academic Activism in Fatima Meer: Choosing to Be Defiant by Rajendra Chetty (2022) English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Rajendra Chetty
This article will attempt to understand Fatima Meer’s scholarship and activism from a critical humanism perspective through an analysis of the visual biography Fatima Meer: Choosing to Be Defiant (...
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Her Odyssey English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Nozipho Noble
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Two Poems by Giuseppe Langella English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Rosanna Masiola
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur: A Timeless Journey? English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Julie Pridmore
J. R. R. Tolkien has not been viewed as an author who found the Arthurian cycle of tales to be particularly pertinent to his wider legendarium. Although he preferred “English” to “British” mytholog...
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Fen, Bog, and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis, by Annie Proulx English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Pankaj Kumar Verma
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, by Roopika Risam English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Afroj Jahan, Sarbani Banerjee
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Nation, Nationalism, and Womanhood in Farah Bashir’s Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Anupama Bandopadhyay
Nationalism as a concept gives rise to dogmatic notions of loyalty and allegiance to one’s nation. Ever since the consolidation of the idea of nation-states, the issue of allegiance to the nation h...
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The Quest for Identity in a Male-Dominated Society: Representations of Women in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 A. Vijayashanthi, R. Saranya, M. Hamsalatha, J. Mariyam Nancy
As a woman writer, Manju Kapur discusses women-centric issues in all her novels. The present article focuses on Kapur’s novel Difficult Daughters (London: Faber & Faber, 1998), and specifically the...
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African Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of English in Higher Education, edited by Alexandra Esimaje, Bertus van Rooy, ’Demola Jolayemi, Daniel Nkemleke, and Ernest Klu English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Syukron Fajriansyah, Nadya Nur Azizah
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent, by Priyamvada Gopal English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Gazal Khan, Sarbani Banerjee
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Coral Woman, by Lubaina Bandukwala English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Rahul Vijayan
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Peach Country, by Nondwe Mpuma English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Niyi Akingbe
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture, edited by Grace A. Musila English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Serah Namulisa Kasembeli
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Bearing the Burden, Divulging Emotional Fears: Secrets in Solitude by Olanike Asake Crownway English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Niyi Akingbe
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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The Damask Moth English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Matthew Curr
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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“Master of the Unsayable”: Elena Ferrante’s Representation of the Complexities of Female Friendship as a Form of “Truth-Telling” English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Fiona Taylor
Italian author Elena Ferrante has been described as the “master of the unsayable”. By examining two of her novels, namely My Brilliant Friend (New York: Europa Editions, 2016) and The Lying Life of...
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Postcritique, Critique, Precritique: A Personal View English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Gareth Cornwell
The discipline of literary studies finds itself in a nebulous zone that has been dubbed “postcritique”. The term recognises that the age of critique (for forty years the dominant paradigm within “l...
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The Ocean, the Undertaker’s Wind, a Wind Called Hawkins, and Other Natural Phenomena: Representations of Nature in Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 David Robinson
This article explores representations of natural phenomena in the second novel in the James Bond series, Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die (London: Penguin, [1954] 2008). Several critics have noted th...
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Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work, edited by Daniel Araya and Peter Marber English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Putri Nurjayana Muin, Fitri Nurjayanti Muin
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2023)
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Embodying Identity: Exploring the Space and Place of the Émigré in Testimonies of Exile English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Grace Danquah
Exile literature is saturated with the themes of rootlessness, loss of identity, and belonging. This article adopts an analytical perspective to explore Abena Busia’s poetry anthology Testimonies o...
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The Transdisciplinary in Literary Postcoloniality: Sacred Spaces English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Rosanna Masiola, Renato Tomei
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2023)
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About the English Academy of Southern Africa English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-04-28
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2023)
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Of New Axioms from Alternate Time Zones: Exploring Notions of Another Time in Ben Okri’s Novels The Famished Road, Astonishing the Gods, and The Age of Magic English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Fetson Kalua
An examination of a select number of Ben Okri’s works of fiction gives the impression that he is truly sui generis as a writer of fiction. His embrace of magical realism as a genre allows him to ev...
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Displacement in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander
Displacement has been a major theme in African literature and, arguably, a central preoccupation of African diasporic fiction on migration. This article examines three intertwined levels of displac...
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Relocating a Sacred Space: From Mount Zion to the New Jerusalem in the Mystic Poetry of Rastafari English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Renato Tomei
Abstract Biblical scriptures, holy chants and prayers, stories of conquest and destruction, pilgrimages and diaspora narratives have provided a range of perspectives related to the city of Jerusalem. Different cultures and faiths have interpreted its symbolic value and claimed belonging, conquest, ownership, and possession. Amongst these are the Rastafari, members of a spiritual movement that originated
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Mapping Ethiopia’s Ancient Spirituality and Amba Gishen: From Sacralisation to Desacralisation English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Matteo Baraldo
Abstract Amba Gishen, a cross-shaped mountainous place in the Southern Wollo Zone of Ethiopia, has for centuries been the site of a royal medieval prison thanks to its geographical isolation on the top of an amba (flat-top mountain). The first African narrative source of the deposition of a relic at Amba Gishen is cited in one of the most sacred Christian manuscripts of Ethiopia, the Mäshafä Tefut
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The Myths of My Memory: A Collection of Poems English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Adetunji Adelokun
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2023)
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Locating the Sacred: “Claimed” and “Unclaimed” Spaces in John P. Clark-Bekederemo’s Remains of a Tide and Harry Garuba’s Animist Chants and Memorials English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Niyi Akingbe
Abstract In this article I argue that the sacred in John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo’s Remains of a Tide (Ibadan: Mosuro, 2018) and Harry Garuba’s Animist Chants and Memorials (Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2017) evokes a contestation of meanings involving “claimed” and “unclaimed” spaces of the sacred. In the analysis of these poetry collections, I apply Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory of memory, and concepts
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Notes on an Aesthetic English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Sithembele Xhegwana
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2023)
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Travel, Indigeneity, Ecocriticism, and the Sacred in Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines and Julia Martin’s A Millimetre of Dust English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Gail Fincham
Abstract Julia Martin’s A Millimetre of Dust: Visiting Ancestral Sites (Cape Town: Kwela, 2008) and Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines (London: Picador/Pan Books, 1987) celebrate the worldviews of indigenous South African and Australian people respectively. Indigenous understandings of the world turn on kinship with nature rather than control of nature, and are spiritual rather than material. Martin’s travelogue
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Exploring Eco-Mysticism in Between Heaven and Earth: Writings on the Indian Hills English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Chhandita Das, Priyanka Tripathi
Abstract Narrative geographies often curate human and non-human connections in space, which mark the spirit of the place. Beyond this frame, the intricate nexus between human geography, environmental mysticism, and theology has been discussed less often. This article seeks to explore the sacred hillscape of the Himalayan ranges and its contingent eco-mysticism through selected post-colonial essays
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Theology and Topophilia in Sacred Spaces: John Bradburne’s Way of the Water English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Rosanna Masiola
Abstract John Bradburne’s (1921–1979) poetics of sacred space and sacred waters highlights a geo-specific correlation between theology and topophilia. There is a world of water enclosed within the sacred woods and mountains, rocks, grottoes, and caves where this lay Franciscan servant of God prayed and had his ecstatic visions. The topophilia and cosmology of the Canticle of the Creatures of Saint
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Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities in Ronnie Govender’s “Beyond Calvary” English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Rajendra Chetty
Abstract This article engages with the theme of contested identities and sacred spaces in Ronnie Govender’s debut play, “Beyond Calvary”. The tension between Hinduism and Christianity is explored within the context of 1960s South Africa, which saw the destruction of vibrant communities due to racial segregation, and a wave of forceful conversion campaigns by Christian missionaries that exploited the
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Through the Looking Glass: Figuring the Animal English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Rosemary Gray
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2022)
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A Sad Place English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Desirée John-Ukofia
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2022)
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About the English Academy of Southern Africa English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-27
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2022)
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Using Critical Animal Studies to Read Climate Change Fiction: Literary Reflections and Provocations English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Jessica Murray
Abstract This article utilises the conceptual and theoretical tools of critical animal studies to expose and interrogate the terminological lapses and possibilities in selected contemporary climate fiction novels. These novels are My Days of Dark Green Euphoria (2022) by A. E. Copenhaver, Bewilderment (2021) by Richard Powers, and Stay and Fight (2019) by Madeline Ffitch. I argue that the terminological
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Sacred Spaces in Southern African Literature: From Mhudi to Mutemwa English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Rosanna Masiola
Abstract This article examines the representation of sacred spaces in the novels of four authors from southern Africa and their translations. It critically considers the representation of sacred spaces and the marginalisation of some areas of Africa. The selected passages feature common themes, such as the dispossession of the soil. A convenient distinction between sacred spaces is made in this article
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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past, by Christopher E. W. Ouma English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Oduor Obura
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2022)
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Fatima Meer, Choosing to Be Defiant: Pictures, Paintings, Politics, by Rajendra Chetty English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Riaan Oppelt
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2022)
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English Studies, Before, In, and Beyond the Time of Covid-19: Elephant, Chameleon, and Lizard English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Michael Chapman
Abstract Focusing on English Studies in South Africa, this article considers adaptations to university teaching in a time of Covid-19 and the potential and limitations of such adaptations post Covid-19. The argument is divided into sections, “English Studies, Yesterday and Today” and “English Studies, Today and Tomorrow”, together with a coda, “English, the Language of the Modern World”. An African
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Poems on the Theatre English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Brian Pearce
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2022)
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Politics of Memorialisation in a Rwandan Witness Memoir: Marie Béatrice Umutesi’s Surviving the Slaughter English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Nick Mdika Tembo
Abstract The memorialisation of the various layers of the genocides in Rwanda’s history has always elicited mixed reactions, with some observers insisting that there was only one actual genocide: the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This article considers Marie Béatrice Umutesi’s contestation of genocide memorialisation in Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaïre (Madison: University
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Claiming the City in South African Literature, by Meg Samuelson English Academy Review Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Olivier Moreillon
Published in English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2022)