English Academy Review, Volume 40, Issue 2 (2023)

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Editorial

Editorial
Plunging into the Depths of Scholarly Critique
Rosemary Gray
Pages: 1-6
Published online: 14 Nov 2023
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Postcritique, Critique, Precritique: A Personal View
Gareth Cornwell
Pages: 7-16
Published online: 23 Jun 2023
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The English Academy Percy Baneshik Memorial Lecture

Article
Critical Humanism and Academic Activism in Fatima Meer: Choosing to Be Defiant by Rajendra Chetty (2022)
Rajendra Chetty
Pages: 17-30
Published online: 09 Oct 2023
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Articles

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The Ocean, the Undertaker’s Wind, a Wind Called Hawkins, and Other Natural Phenomena: Representations of Nature in Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die
David Robinson
Pages: 31-45
Published online: 24 May 2023
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Of New Axioms from Alternate Time Zones: Exploring Notions of Another Time in Ben Okri’s Novels The Famished Road, Astonishing the Gods, and The Age of Magic
Fetson Kalua
Pages: 46-59
Published online: 28 Apr 2023
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur: A Timeless Journey?
Julie Pridmore
Pages: 60-70
Published online: 16 Aug 2023
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Embodying Identity: Exploring the Space and Place of the Émigré in Testimonies of Exile
Grace Danquah
Pages: 71-86
Published online: 18 May 2023
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The Quest for Identity in a Male-Dominated Society: Representations of Women in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters
A. Vijayashanthi, R. Saranya, M. Hamsalatha & J. Mariyam Nancy
Pages: 87-96
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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“Master of the Unsayable”: Elena Ferrante’s Representation of the Complexities of Female Friendship as a Form of “Truth-Telling”
Fiona Taylor
Pages: 97-108
Published online: 23 Jun 2023
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Displacement in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander
Pages: 109-124
Published online: 12 Apr 2023
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Nation, Nationalism, and Womanhood in Farah Bashir’s Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
Anupama Bandopadhyay
Pages: 125-137
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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The Reader, the Rodent, and the Viral Regeneration of Fear: Kafka’s “The Burrow” as a Covid-19 Allegory
Mohammed Hamdan
Pages: 138-160
Published online: 29 Sep 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture, edited by Grace A. Musila
Routledge. 2022. pp. 498, ISBN 9780367483869
Serah Namulisa Kasembeli
Pages: 161-165
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Peach Country, by Nondwe Mpuma
uHlanga Press. 2022. pp. 52, ISBN: 978-0-620-98688-5
Niyi Akingbe
Pages: 166-169
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Bearing the Burden, Divulging Emotional Fears: Secrets in Solitude by Olanike Asake Crownway
Winepress, Noirledge Publishing. 2022. pp. 69, ISBN 9789785934212 (ebook)
Niyi Akingbe
Pages: 170-174
Published online: 20 Jul 2023
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Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent, by Priyamvada Gopal
Verso. 2019. pp. 624, ISBN 9781784784126
Gazal Khan & Sarbani Banerjee
Pages: 175-178
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Book Review
African Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of English in Higher Education, edited by Alexandra Esimaje, Bertus van Rooy, ’Demola Jolayemi, Daniel Nkemleke, and Ernest Klu
Routledge. 2023. pp. 262, ISBN 9781032231365 (hardback); 9781003279433 (ebook),
Syukron Fajriansyah & Nadya Nur Azizah
Pages: 179-182
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Book Review
Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work, edited by Daniel Araya and Peter Marber
Routledge. 2023. pp. 326, ISBN: 9781003230762;
Putri Nurjayana Muin & Fitri Nurjayanti Muin
Pages: 183-185
Published online: 24 May 2023
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Book Review
New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy, by Roopika Risam
Northwestern University Press. 2019. pp. 169, ISBN 9780810138872
Afroj Jahan & Sarbani Banerjee
Pages: 186-189
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Book Review
Hunger for the Light: The Challenges of an African Life, by Rosemary Alice Gray
Ssali Publishing House, with Unisa Press. 2022. pp. 293 ISBN 9780639748306 (print); 9780639748313 (ebook)
Nhlanhla Maake
Pages: 190-192
Published online: 14 Nov 2023
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Coral Woman, by Lubaina Bandukwala
HarperCollins. 2021. pp. 44, ISBN 978-9354893001 (Paperback)
Rahul Vijayan
Pages: 193-197
Published online: 31 Jul 2023
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Creative Writing

Poetry
The Damask Moth
Matthew Curr
Page: 198
Published online: 28 Jun 2023
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Poetry
Her Odyssey
Nozipho Noble
Pages: 199-200
Published online: 23 Aug 2023
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Poetry
Two Poems by Giuseppe Langella
Rosanna Masiola
Page: 201
Published online: 21 Aug 2023
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Proceedings of the English Academy of Southern Africa

President’s Report
Owen Seda
Pages: 202-204
Published online: 14 Nov 2023
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Other

About the English Academy of Southern Africa
Pages: 205-207
Published online: 14 Nov 2023
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