Showing papers in "Journal of Literary Studies in 2019"
TL;DR: The Bell (1958) as discussed by the authors presents a singular ethical situation by portraying a prospective priest, named Michael Meade, engaged in a homoerotic relationship with another prospective priest.
Abstract: Iris Murdoch's philosophical novel The Bell (1958) presents a singular ethical situation by portraying a prospective priest, named Michael Meade, engaged in a homoerotic relationship resulting in t...
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TL;DR: In this paper, Koos Prinsloo read through the three syntheses of time ( Habit, Mnemosyne and Thanatos) as explicated by philosopher Gilles Deleuze in Differe...
Abstract: In this article, I think about death as “event” by reading Koos Prinsloo through the three syntheses of time – Habit, Mnemosyne and Thanatos – as explicated by philosopher Gilles Deleuze in Differe...
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TL;DR: Fisher's Ghosts of My Life as mentioned in this paper describes various small-scale utopian projects dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, including brutalist architecture, squats, industrial music and experi...
Abstract: SummaryIn Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life he describes various small-scale utopian projects dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, including brutalist architecture, squats, industrial music and experi...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce Critical Plant Studies, and present an introduction to the field of critical plant studies and its connections to literature. Journal of Literary Studies: Vol. 35, Critical Plant studies, pp. 23-27, 2019
Abstract: (2019). Introduction: Critical Plant Studies. Journal of Literary Studies: Vol. 35, Critical Plant Studies, pp. 23-27.
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TL;DR: In view of the valorisation of Yoruba cultural elements in the poetry of the Atlantic Yoruba poets, it has been observed that the poets often use enormous continental Yoruba culture resourc... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: SummaryIn view of the valorisation of Yoruba cultural elements in the poetry of the Atlantic Yoruba poets, it has been observed that the poets often use enormous continental Yoruba cultural resourc...
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TL;DR: The emergence of the concept of modernities in its multiple and vernacular iterations as opposed to modernity, pur... as discussed by the authors. But, as noted by the authors, "one of the significant developments in contemporary Cultural Studies is the emergence of "modernities" in its many and different iterations as compared to "traditionalities".
Abstract: SummaryOne of the significant developments in contemporary Cultural Studies is the emergence of the concept of “modernities” in its multiple and vernacular iterations as opposed to “Modernity”, pur...
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TL;DR: The authors traces how the character of the father in post-apartheid South African literature is symbolic of the spectral yet enduring legacy of apartheid and the types of rigid masculiniti...
Abstract: SummaryThis article traces how the character of the father in post-apartheid South African literature is symbolic of the spectral yet enduring legacy of apartheid and the types of rigid masculiniti...
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TL;DR: The authors takes as its point of departure the discursive representation of the moffie in border literature (or grensliteratuur) that was produced after the fall of apartheid in South Africa.
Abstract: This article takes as its point of departure the discursive representation of the moffie (or “faggot”) in border literature (or grensliteratuur) that was produced after the fall of apartheid in Sou...
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TL;DR: For example, animals occupy an ambivalent position in relation both to Western capitalist modernity and to decoloniality, one of modernity's most vehement opponents as discussed by the authors, and paradoxically, animals are equally ce...
Abstract: SummaryAnimals occupy an ambivalent position in relation both to Western capitalist modernity and to decoloniality, one of modernity's most vehement opponents. Paradoxically, animals are equally ce...
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TL;DR: The authors dealt with the position of Afrikaans literature as a small literature in the world, with specific reference to some of Pascale Casanova's most provocative statements on the posi...
Abstract: SummaryThis article deals with the position of Afrikaans literature as a small literature in the world, with specific reference to some of Pascale Casanova’s most provocative statements on the posi...
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TL;DR: In this article, Bulawayo-based writer John Eppel is gaining increased prominence and acceptance as Zimbabwe's premier satirist in both poetry and prose, in both prose and poetry.
Abstract: SummaryBulawayo-based writer John Eppel is gaining increased prominence and acceptance as Zimbabwe’s premier satirist, in both poetry and prose. Early critics, even fellow-poets, failed to read the...
TL;DR: In this article, the use of botanical tropes in Die jagters van Bloedeiland (1958), a popular fiction text from the colonial era set in the Congo (D.R.C.).
Abstract: SummaryIn this article I focus on the use of botanical tropes in Die jagters van Bloedeiland (1958), a popular fiction text from the colonial era set in the Congo (D.R.C.). It forms part of the adv...
Abstract: SummaryKoos Prinsloo’s short story, “Promise you’ll tell no-one”, highlights three aspects that continue to plague Afrikaner identity. The first of these are the phallus, understood here as the sym...
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of D.H. Lawrence on John Fowles's early novels (The Magus and The Collector), with particular emphasis on the parallels between the wr...
Abstract: SummaryThis interdisciplinary analysis considers the influence of D.H. Lawrence on John Fowles’s early novels (The Magus and The Collector), with particular emphasis on the parallels between the wr...
TL;DR: One of the powerful but mostly overlooked productive forces in and behind Karen Blixen's Out of Africa (1937) is Coffea arabica, the coffee bush of Arabia as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: SummaryOne of the powerful but mostly overlooked productive forces in and behind Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa (1937) is Coffea arabica, the coffee bush of Arabia. In this article, I first discuss t...
TL;DR: In this article, the treatment of history and memory as narrated in Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood and in Judge Farlam's “Marikana Commission Report” on the Marikana massacre is discussed.
Abstract: SummaryReportage of violence against workers is often compromised by age-old tendencies in oppressive states to control narratives on epochal events considered potentially disruptive of existing exploitative economic relations through excision of uncomfortable truths from the official memories of states. Thus memory, in colonial and postcolonial contexts, has been a contested terrain, especially in the relationships between the state-aligned businesses and labour. There are parallels and contrasts in the remembering of violent labour-related events in Sembene Ousmane’s Gods Bits of Wood and the “Marikana Commission Report” which this article considers to be essential in preventing cyclical violence in the labour market. Hence this article comparatively discusses the treatment of history and memory as narrated in Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood and in Judge Farlam’s “Marikana Commission Report” on the Marikana massacre and argues that where memory is disputed and contested, the resultant submerging of truth f...
TL;DR: The authors argue that in Koos Prinsloo's oeuvre a perennial resistance to the discourses of power vested in specific figures, be it the father figure, the State, God, the pub, etc.
Abstract: SummaryIn this article, I argue that we find in Koos Prinsloo’s oeuvre a perennial resistance to the discourses of power vested in specific figures, be it the father figure, the State, God, the pub...
TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that those who love the natural world have plenty to despair about in today's world, as wildlands are carved into housing tracts and plumbed for oil and species after species are driven to extinc...
Abstract: SummaryThose who love the natural world have plenty to despair about in today’s world, as wildlands are carved into housing tracts and plumbed for oil and species after species are driven to extinc...
TL;DR: In this paper, the focus is on the literary representations of women in postcolonial wartime narratives by African female novelists, and an important assumption drives this article, namely, tha...
Abstract: SummaryThe focus of this article is on the literary representations of women in postcolonial wartime narratives by African female novelists. An important assumption drives this article, namely, tha...
TL;DR: In this paper, different interpretations of Zimbabwean land in relation to the contradictory notions of victimhood in Peter Godwin's memoir When a Crocodile Eats the Sun are discussed.
Abstract: SummaryIn this article, I discuss different interpretations of Zimbabwean land in relation to the contradictory notions of victimhood in Peter Godwin’s memoir When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. I also ...
TL;DR: Through a reading of Moore-King's White Man Black War, the authors argues that white Zimbabwean narratives belong to a heteroglot world, a world of multiple languages, which destabilizes their narratives.
Abstract: Through a reading of Moore-King's White Man Black War, this article seeks to demonstrate that white Zimbabwean narratives belong to a heteroglot world, a world of multiple languages, which destabil...
TL;DR: This article used the term "new world" in the first story in Koos Prinsloo's debut collection, Jonkmanskas, to explore the developing relation-ship in his short stories.
Abstract: This article uses the term “new world”, which features prominently in the first story in Koos Prinsloo’s debut collection, Jonkmanskas, to explore the developing relation-ship in his short stories ...
TL;DR: The poetry of the Lithuanian Yiddish poet, David Fram, makes a significant contribution to the understanding of a single immigrant's relocation in a specific time and place as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: SummaryThe poetry of the Lithuanian Yiddish poet, David Fram, makes a significant contribution to the understanding of a single immigrant's relocation in a specific time and place. Drawing on a ric...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a novel and short story about the import of trees in the world of botanical research. But they do not discuss the authors' own experience with trees.
Abstract: SummaryBecause trees tend to be objectified, labelled botanically without any awareness of the import of their presence, the novels and short story considered in this article are unusual. Zakes Mda...
TL;DR: In this paper, Koos Prinsloo: A Tribute is described as a "tribute" to the author. But this tribute is limited to a single book.
Abstract: (2019). Introduction: Koos Prinsloo: A Tribute. Journal of Literary Studies: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 19-24.
TL;DR: The authors argue that narrative myth tellings have the magical capacity to give voice to the non-human and to initiate dialogue between forces and figures previously assumed to be binary opposites, and that these well-establishe...
Abstract: Narrative myth tellings have the magical capacity to give voice to the non-human and to initiate dialogue between forces and figures previously assumed to be binary opposites. These well-establishe...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors offer an analysis of Lydia R. Diamond's Voyeurs de Venus and argue that the replenishment of Saartjie Baartman's hilstory by Diamond can provide alternative perspectives.
Abstract: SummaryIn this article, I offer an analysis of Lydia R. Diamond's Voyeurs de Venus and argue that the replenishment of Saartjie Baartman's hilstory by Diamond can provide alternative perspectives t...
TL;DR: Myths on gender relations of the African past, invented and propagated by settlers, were imbibed and even disseminated by early Shona writers as discussed by the authors, where men and patriarchy were alwa...
Abstract: Myths on gender relations of the African past, invented and propagated by settlers, were imbibed and even disseminated by early Shona writers. Shona indigenous culture, men and patriarchy were alwa...
TL;DR: In this article, a post-colonial reading of Yael Farber's 2012 adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) through the lens of the Mother of the Nation concept (Volksmoederkonsep) as situated within Afrikaner nationalist ideology is presented.
Abstract: Introduction The focus in this article is a postcolonial reading of Yael Farber's 2012 adaptation (Mies Julie) of Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) through the lens of the Mother of the Nation concept (Volksmoederkonsep) as situated within Afrikaner nationalist ideology. Strindberg's Miss Julie has been adapted numerous times (apparently more than twenty times) and often through re-imagings of the original play's issues in regards of gender, power and social class. More recent adaptations include Patrick Marber's reworking of the play, entitled After Miss Julie in 2009 and a 2012 Chinese opera version directed by Ravel Luo.
TL;DR: The authors argued that both gender and Jesus can be seen as allegories through which we can observe the puzzle of incarnation as experienced by humans as subjects, and the idea that Jesus ma...
Abstract: SummaryThis article contends that both Gender and Jesus can be seen as allegories through which we can observe the puzzle of incarnation as experienced by humans as subjects. The idea that Jesus ma...