Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Puleng Segalo, Theresah Patrine Ennin
Summary: Many African women writers address social justice, development and persistent inequalities. This paper explores the work of Amma Darko, specifically her novel Faceless, which highlights the impact of structural violence on people's lives. The focus is on gender inequality, the struggles women face, and the resulting effects on their children, leading to homelessness and abandonment.
EASTERN AFRICAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Spemba Elias Spemba
Summary: This article examines how Elias Mutani's Human Poachers (2016) assigns specific meanings to child characters with and without albinism, and how the author depicts the agency of these characters. It argues that philanthropy is necessary to protect and empower children with albinism, but also highlights instances where altruistic efforts perpetuate discrimination and stereotypes.
EASTERN AFRICAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Review
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Amatoritsero Ede
EASTERN AFRICAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Maebh Long
Summary: The article highlights Ulli Beier's significant influence in the literature of Nigeria and Papua New Guinea, as well as his appropriation of indigenous literary histories in both countries through fraudulent acts. It focuses on his racial alter egos and his role as a lecturer and magazine editor at the University of Papua New Guinea.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis
Summary: Drawing on hemispheric, oceanic, and southern theory approaches, this article argues for the value of considering the nineteenth-century literary cultures of the southern settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa from within an interconnected frame of analysis. It suggests rethinking current approaches to British world studies by decoupling the southern settler colonies from studies of settler colonialism in North America and by considering south-south networks and relations across southern islands, oceans, and continents.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Vandana Saxena
Summary: This article explores readers' ongoing fascination with the colonial romance genre by analyzing the historical representations and shaping of memories of colonialism in Noel Barber's Tanamera. It examines how the reading public outside academia responds to the colonial imaginary and the extent to which it influences the collective memory of the empire.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Greg Graham-Smith
Summary: This article explores the connection between the characters in Patrick White's novels "The Twyborn Affair" and "The Aunt's Story" and the author's own emotions, highlighting how the author represents his subaltern position through these characters. It also discusses how White fabricates alternative subject positions through the use of different narrative techniques and the characters' changing identities, challenging traditional gender power structures.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Christin Hoene
Summary: In postcolonial studies, there are two main arguments about the impact of cultural imperialism on science fiction as a literary genre. The first argument suggests that Western science fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century is deeply influenced by the discourses and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. The second argument emphasizes the subversive elements of postcolonial authors' writing, which undermine dominant narratives of cultural imperialism and colonialism. This article analyzes a colonial-era science fiction story by non-Western writer Jagadish Chandra Bose, discussing how the story combines science fiction and magical realism elements and challenges Western science as a tool of imperial control. The author also explores Bose's philosophy of science, which combines Western science and Indian philosophy and can be seen as an anti-colonial politics of science.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Isidore Okeawolam Diala
Summary: This article discusses Tanure Ojaide's poetry, focusing on his social activism and his use of indigenous Urhobo poetry techniques. It also examines his use of metacommentary in his poetry to reflect on the craft and purpose of his art. By analyzing selected poems and considering Ojaide's vision of poetry expressed in interviews and scholarly writings, as well as the aesthetic implications of his work being rooted in the tradition of indigenous African poetry, the article evaluates the metacritical significance of these focal poems.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Juniper Ellis
Summary: Joe Balaz's Pidgin Eye (2019) is a collection of poetry written in Creole English, commonly known as Pidgin in Hawai'i. Balaz uses liberating humor to challenge colonial myths and claim decolonizing realities. The collection highlights the value of Pidgin as a language that has often been dismissed and explores the impossibility of a pure language free from mixing with other languages and devoid of violence and trauma. Balaz establishes Pidgin as an epistemic, aesthetic, and activist decolonizing resource throughout the collection.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Paul Sharrad
Summary: This article examines novelist Thomas Keneally's use of artists and painting in selected fiction, and how visual art contributes to the style and themes in his works.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
E. Dawson Varughese
Summary: This article explores the concept of oscillation in Tashan Mehta's The Liar's Weave (2017), tracing its presence in the novel's locations, language, and themes of free will. The protagonist, Zahan Merchant, is shown to be intricately engaged with these oscillations through his unique ability to verbally shape new realities. The article also highlights the novel's interest in speculative fiction and its resonance with contemporary Indian writing in English.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Thomas Jay Lynn
Summary: A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe highlights the significance of female characters in portraying the challenges and potential of women in post-independence African societies. It emphasizes the importance of women's self-ownership and leadership roles for a nation's development and underlines the struggles they face in breaking free from patriarchal norms.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Andrew van der Vlies
Summary: This essay examines the issue of accessibility to literatures in minor languages and their translatability in the development of World Literature as a discipline. Using the work of South African writer J. M. Coetzee as an example, the essay explores the challenge posed by the intertextual influence between Coetzee and Afrikaans-language writers, and discusses the implications for Coetzee studies and the field of World Literature as a whole.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Vivek Santayana
Summary: This article discusses the critique of nuclear power and its connection to colonialism and racial oppression in South Africa. The novel "Get a Life" by Nadine Gordimer explores the reconfiguration of the human subject's encounter with the non-human ecosystem following the impact of nuclear technology in neo-imperial contexts. The protagonist's experience of radioactivity allows for a reconsideration of the exploitation of the non-human landscape and emphasizes the importance of response-ability towards the non-human.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Alena Rettova
Summary: This article examines the narrative technique of using heterogeneous genres in selected African novels, focusing on Okot p'Bitek's Lak Tar/White Teeth. It discusses the concept of generic fracturing, in which various genres, such as poetry and digital texts, are included in the prose fiction of the novels. The article argues that these genres not only contribute to the narrative construction but also represent alternative ways of thinking, challenging the colonial impositions in African novelistic production.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Christina Phillips
Summary: This article explores the impact of cultural, linguistic, and contextual differences on the reading experience, meaning, and textual relations of modern Arabic literature in translation. Through the analysis of Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013/2018) in its English translation, the author demonstrates how a highly translatable modern Arabic text can undergo semantic and symbolic shifts. The article argues for the recognition of modern Arabic literature in translation as its own canon, deserving of independent study and offering insight into cultural encounters, literary capital, and the disjunctions between English and Arabic culture and literature.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Ashim Dutta
Summary: Rabindranath Tagore's novel Gora, published between 1907 and 1910, reflects his evolving cultural and ideological views in the early 20th century. Through dialogue, Tagore explores the Hindu identity, contrasting a limited and divisive ideology with an open and alternative Hindu selfhood for India. This essay aims to distinguish Tagore's exploration from the later exclusionary Hindu ideologies promoted in Indian politics.
JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
Kimberly Spragg
AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES
(2023)
Book Review
Literature, African, Australian, Canadian
[Anonymous]
AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES
(2023)
