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"You Think It's Possible to Fix Broken Things?": Terror in the South African Crime Fiction of Margie Orford and Jassy Mackenzie
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This article is published in Clues: A Journal of Detection.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 3 citations till now.read more
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South Africa and Zimbabwe
TL;DR: In 2013, the South African literary awards reflected the range of books published, with each of the main awards going to a different book as mentioned in this paper, and a wide range of novels were published; there was an increase in the short stories in print; strong new voices emerged and many books gained both popular and critical attention.
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‘It may have seemed personal but it wasn’t’: The Person(al) as Nation(al) in Post-Apartheid Literary Representations of Retribution
TL;DR: In this article, crime fiction has experienced a boom in popularity in South Africa in recent years and some critics argue over the high or lowbrow status of the genre, a more fruitful approach may be to consid...
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Female killers and gender politics in contemporary South African crime fiction: Conversations with crime writers Jassy Mackenzie, Angela Makholwa, and Mike Nicol:
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TL;DR: The authors argue that since assertions of power have so long been connected to assertions of masculinity, performing the male role of the killer is a way for their female figures to move to a place of p...
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An Eye for an Eye
TL;DR: The Code of Hammurabi (C.H. as discussed by the authors ) contains 282 clauses of which 27 impose capital sentences for a wide variety of wrongs, including adultery and theft, and many of them apply the principle of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth".
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Criminal Obsessions, after Foucault: Postcoloniality, Policing, and the Metaphysics of Disorder
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate patterns of crime and their representation in South Africa, past and present, and annotate, in detail, both primary and secondary data on the topic.
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South Africa in the global imaginary
TL;DR: The reception of the term "South Africa" has always been interested, influenced by ideological or psychological imperatives, whether by apologists for or subjects of empire, members of anti-colonial or anti-apartheid movements, exiles and emigres, or by only apparently disinterested outsiders for whom the region's vicarious rewards have been many.
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Writing the city after apartheid
TL;DR: In South African urban geography, the identity of black South Africans was essentialised along a rural-urban axis (casting them as temporary sojourners' in ‘white’ cities), and zoning, forced removals, curfews, influx control generally and the dompas in particular were used to establish and entrench racial divisions in the cities as discussed by the authors.