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...Neville Hoad This essay analyzes Lauren Beukes's 2010 novel, Zoo City , as a complicated set of allegories of environmental disaster, HIV/AIDS, xenophobic violence, and contemporary African identity. It argues that Zoo City , as a speculative fiction of sorts, is deeply informed by South African...

..., 2011  allegories in nineteenth-­ and early twentieth-­century 272 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Latin American literature in Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1993), Andrade...

..., 2011  allegories in nineteenth-­ and early twentieth-­century 272 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Latin American literature in Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1993), Andrade...

...  allegories in nineteenth-­ and early twentieth-­century 272 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Latin American literature in Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1993), Andrade In The Nation Writ Small, Susan...

..., 2011  allegories in nineteenth-­ and early twentieth-­century 272 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Latin American literature in Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1993), Andrade...

..., 2011  allegories in nineteenth-­ and early twentieth-­century 272 pp., $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Latin American literature in Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (1993), Andrade...

... 359 careful theoretical formulation, that one of the book’s tive fiction as “national allegories” ascribes to the liter- theoretical weaknesses first emerges. This difficulty ary production of the “third world” a cultural “back arises from López’s hesitancy or reluctance to recognize wardness...

... - Book Reviews 355 become real, . . . disappointment is inevitable: No with allegory, without neatly projecting its alterity on to amount of fame can satisfy me if there is really some- a nostalgic annulment of postcolonial discontinuity” thing else I seek from...

... and - Book Reviews 355 become real, . . . disappointment is inevitable: No with allegory, without neatly projecting its alterity on to amount of fame can satisfy me if there is really some- a nostalgic annulment of postcolonial discontinuity” thing else I seek from...

... shifts our focus to an urban context and analyzes Lauren Beukes’s dystopian speculative fiction novel Zoo City and its allegories of environmental disaster, HIV/AIDS, xenophobic violence, and belonging. Clare Counihan’s interview with artist Nomusa Makhubu reflects on the role of the artist...

... , 1991 . Miner Earl Roy . “ An Allegory on the Banks of the Nile and Other Hazards of Intercultural Literary Comparison .” College Literature 23 , no. 1 ( 1996 ): 81 – 92 . Miner Earl Roy . Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature . Princeton, NJ...

... . Carey James W. Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society . Boston : Unwin Hyman , 1989 . Desai Gaurav . “Gandhi as Allegory.” Paper presented at “The Indian Ocean: History, Networks, and Spaces of the Imagination” conference . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

... questioning and re- observer disrupts the scopophilic gazes of both bellion — her refusal to avert her modestly veiled 25. Wilkins, The Aesthetics of Equity, 103 – 4. much of the film, she wears a dark head cover. To - 27. Negar Mottahedeh, Displaced Allegories: Post...

..., in another world. Significantly, Fayzi does not describe reaching that other world, nor does he guarantee an end to roaming the desert. In doing so, he departs from familiar allegories of wandering and arrival that abound in Sufi literature. For instance, in ‘Attar's famous narrative poem The Conference...

... Akbari, Seeing through the Veil: 11. See Uwe Steiner, Verhüllungsgeschichten: Die Dich­ 13.  See Franz Vonessen, “Der Mythos vom Welt- Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (Toronto: Uni- tung des Schleiers (Stories of Disguise: The Fiction of schleier” (“The Myth of the Global Veil Antaios 4...

... prefers to keep them as universalized abstractions. 24 In contrast to Kemal's rewriting, in Florian's version truth and fable live together thanks to one's reason and the other's embellishment. 25 One can see the appeal of Florian's gendered allegory of fiction and truth: it comes as a corrective...

... than Writing offers an important and original contribution to amid the immediate shock of their original occurrence the study of French Antillean literature. In considering (77). Suk closes her analysis with a penetrating interro- this literature in light of recent theories of allegory and gation...

... allegory and aesthetic experi- ditions of Indian- controlled Kashmir, where a mentation. According to Zaman, it is important military occupation continues to oppress Kash- to be direct when faced with the kind of politi- miri...

..., it literally carries forth the fantasies of families whom Bear interacted with in the course modernity and progress through which the post- of fieldwork, showcasing, in particular, their con- 1. Jermey B. C. Jackson, MX Kirby, WH Berger, KA Bjorndal, LW Bots- 1. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Allegories...

..., it literally carries forth the fantasies of families whom Bear interacted with in the course modernity and progress through which the post- of fieldwork, showcasing, in particular, their con- 1. Jermey B. C. Jackson, MX Kirby, WH Berger, KA Bjorndal, LW Bots- 1. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, “Allegories...