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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., this article further argues that the context of Third Worldism is largely eliminated in the reception of global South literature in the world literary setting. It contends that recognizing the formation of Third World cosmopolitan novelists in the milieu of an international socialist literary culture oriented...
FIGURES
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 103–121.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Such a collective, it would seem, only begins to take shape in the nameless narrator-reader—neither South African nor Jewish. More precisely, it emerges through the way in which he reads and the figural writing that guides it. Literature exists, said Sebald in his last speech before his untimely death, “perhaps...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 327–329.
Published: 01 August 2010
.... Rita
Barnard’s Apartheid and Beyond reminds us that there is no inherent need for a trade-off.
Lucidly written and carefully researched, Barnard’s volume offers a theoretically nuanced
and historically situated study of South African literature from 1948 to 2000, exploring the
complex ways...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 330–333.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Timothy Wright Graham Lucy Valerie , State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature . ( Oxford : Oxford UP , 2012 ), pp. 272 , cloth, $58.50 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press A Nation Writing Rape
lucy valerie graham...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 259–260.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 220, $59.95.
Paula Krebs's book makes an important contribution to the existing scholarship on late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and South African...
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Novel (2004) 37 (3): 277–302.
Published: 01 November 2004
... in Mbulelo Mzamane’s Short Stories.” Research in African Literatures 31 ( 2000 ): 29 –48. Martin , Denis-Constant . “Cape Town’s Coon Carnival.” Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies . Ed. Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl-Ann Michael. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000 . 363 –79. Mbembe...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... . Planet of Slums . London : Verso , 2006 . Deb Siddhartha . The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India . New York : Faber and Faber , 2011 . Dunton Chris . “ Entropy and Energy: Lagos as a City of Words .” Research in African Literatures 39 . 2 ( 2008 ): 68...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 335–361.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the 20th Century .” Review of African Political Economy 29 . 91 ( 2002 ): 145 – 48 . Attwell David . “ Mofolo’s ‘Chaka’ and the Bambata Rebellion .” Research in African Literatures 18 . 1 ( 1987 ): 51 – 70 . Attwell David . Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 41–56.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and Interregnum.” Research in African Literatures 26.4 ( 1995 ): 46 –57. Macaskill , Brian . “Interrupting the Hegemonic: Textual Critique and Mythological Recuperation from the White Margins of South African Writing.” Novel 23.2 ( 1997 ): 156 –81. Mandela , Nelson , John Stacks, Scott...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 85–103.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the gothic in African literatures (particularly those of South Africa) in recent years (see Shear ; Gaylard ), with respect to Farah's novel the closest we come to an encounter with the living dead is in a single simile describing some beggars rising in response to the General's representative arriving...
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Novel (2018) 51 (3): 417–437.
Published: 01 November 2018
... © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 hybridity South African literature African novel Johannesburg apartheid The closing shot of Neill Blomkamp's District 9 pans out on the state bureaucrat Wikus van de Merwe, who has transformed into one of the insectoid aliens he was originally charged...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 236–261.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... South African Literature and Culture: Rediscovery of the Ordinary. Introduction by Graham Pechey . Manchester : Manchester UP , 1994 . Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o . Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing . New York : Columbia UP , 2012 . “ Nuruddin Farah: Crossbones, a Reading...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 339–361.
Published: 01 August 2018
... transnational conjuncture of postcategorical novels and postcategorical criticism—captured ideally in the title of the essay “To Hear the Variety of Discourses” (2011) by the acclaimed South African “coloured” writer Zoë Wicomb—strives to represent representational flux on a more limited, subjective scale...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 492–496.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and came to the United States as a child. He received his BA
from Rutgers and his MFA in writing from Cornell. He holds an endowed chair in writing
at MIT. Finally, Zakes Mda, born in 1948 into a politically active South African family, was
raised in the rural Eastern Cape and Soweto and went...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 14–16.
Published: 01 May 2011
... white South African novel, but after 1950 apartheid made
the differences between black and white writing less discernible. Furthermore, the
regional model does not account for the fact that the dialectic of colonial violence
made novels produced in Kenya closer to those in South Africa, Zimbabwe...
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Novel (2019) 52 (2): 334–337.
Published: 01 August 2019
... that are simultaneously categorical . . . as well as conceptual” (2), Mangharam begins by detaching such discourses from the European Enlightenment and by drawing our attention to other precolonial non-European forms—such as those offered by the fifteenth-century Indian poet Kabir and the South African ubuntu tradition...
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Novel (2008) 41 (2-3): 189–199.
Published: 01 November 2008
... 17 ( 1991 ): 336 –57. Attwell , David . Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History . Scottsville: U of KwaZulu-Natal P, 2005 . Belsey , Catherine . Critical Practice . New York: Routledge, 1990 . Casanova , Pascale . The World Republic...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 361–365.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Daylanne K. English In this essay I offer a temporal-philosophical and literary-political reading of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins detective novel series. African American literature has conventionally been understood as following its own timeline; however, ascribing a distinct temporality to black...
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Novel (2002) 36 (1): 79–109.
Published: 01 May 2002
... Schreiner: Beyond South African Colonialism . Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1989 . Berkman , Joyce Avrech . Olive Schreiner: Feminism on the Frontier . St. Alban’s, VT: Eden Press, 1979 . Blanch , M.D. “British Society and the War.” The South African War: The Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 18–51.
Published: 01 August 2007
.... On the other hand, the eighteenth-century British term "black" or
"blacks" included not only those of African descent but also South Asians and sometimes other
persons of color who were not part of the African diaspora that resulted from the slave trade.
"Negro" and "negroid" carry too much...
