Recently added articles from Journal of Literary Studies:
Cracking the code: translation as transgression in Triomf.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Summary This article has been braided from two main strands: first, my arguments probe the conditions that pertain to the project of literary translation in South African letters, both in the light of my own research into and observations of conditions in the field, and my own ...
'n "Paradise Lost": 'n Ondersoek na swart arbeid en wit ongemak in stedelike Suid-Afrika: Marlene van Niekerk se kortverhaal "Klein vingeroefening rondom die nosie van hibriditeit".
Sep 01, 2009; ... Summary Marlene van Niekerk's short story "Klein vingeroefening rondom die nosie van hibriditeit" (2001) confronts the ambivalence inherent in the legacy of Madamhood which is coupled with a post-apartheid sense of white displacement. This "small finger exercise on the notion ...
Long Walk to Freedom and the mutating face of the epic.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Summary The encounter with Nelson Mandela's voluminous Long Walk to Freedom (1994) in a vibrant post-apartheid society that is effervescent with the "Rainbow" identity and the "Renaissance" spirit, easily beckons the critical examination of such a work to establish its exact ...
"Born out of my ownself": (re)claiming the self in Doris Lessing's Under My Skin, Volume 1, 1919-1949.
Jun 01, 2009; ... Summary This paper seeks to explore how self-identity is (re)constructed through the narrative act of autobiography in Doris Lessing's Under My Skin, Volume 1, 1919-1949 (1995). The paper argues that the authentic self is born in the process of narrative writing and that the ...
Folklorising the newsman: the memoirs of Geoffrey Nyarota.(Company overview)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Summary Geoffrey Nyarota, the author of Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman (2006) is well known in Zimbabwe's media and political circles as a troubling and troubled, and now self-exiled journalist. His name is controversially folklorised as synonymous with the ...