English Studies in Africa, Volume 66, Issue 2 (2023)

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Roundtable on Damon Galgut's The Promise

Introduction
Introduction: Damon Galgut’s The Promise and the Booker Prize Double Bind
Sofia Kostelac
Pages: 1-4
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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Brand Recognition: Damon Galgut’s The Promise as National Allegory Plus
Elleke Boehmer
Pages: 5-10
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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‘Good’ South African Literature: The Booker Prize, its Infatuation with the Postcolonial and Damon Galgut’s The Promise
Helena van Urk
Pages: 11-18
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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Their Galgut, Our Galgut: A Complimentary Rant on the Booker Prize
Robert Muponde
Pages: 19-24
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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‘Is it a family saga or a farm novel?’ Reading Damon Galgut’s The Promise as a Foil for Metonymic Dispossession and Restitution in the Contemporary South African (Im)moral Economy
Kirby Manià
Pages: 25-32
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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White Moral Projects and the Impossibility of Racial Repair: A Reflection on White Shame and Black (Dis)Inheritance in Damon Galgut’s The Promise
Aretha Phiri
Pages: 33-38
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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A Response
Damon Galgut
Pages: 39-43
Published online: 19 Oct 2023
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Research Articles

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Subtlety, Understatement and Omission in The Lord of the Rings
Jamie McGregor
Pages: 44-54
Published online: 11 Apr 2023
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A Piece of My Self: The ‘Wound’ in the Writing of Richard Ford
Gareth Cornwell
Pages: 55-67
Published online: 11 Apr 2023
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Relational Resilience in The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After and Call Me American: A Memoir
Lena Englund
Pages: 68-80
Published online: 25 Apr 2023
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The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape
Cengiz Karagöz & Timuçin Buğra Edman
Pages: 81-92
Published online: 02 May 2023
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Sekhmet and the Shaman: Extinction, Ferality and Trans-species Connections in Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Green Lion
Judith Simon
Pages: 93-108
Published online: 11 Apr 2023
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