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J.M. Coetzee: A Critical Biography
The Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee is currently South Africa’s most resourceful and influential writer.
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Against Isolation: Multilingualism, Transnationalism and Literary Dialogue in Dutch–Afrikaans Formations. A Report with Critical Reflections on a Research Programme
T’Sjoen, Yves. 2024. Against Isolation: Multilingualism, Transnationalism and Literary Dialogue in Dutch–Afrikaans Formations. A Report with...
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Against Isolation: Transnationalism and Literary Dialogue in Dutch-Afrikaans Formations
Critics on both sides of the so-called ‘Afrikaans question’ tend to characterise the language as a hyper-local, and hence insulated, socio-cultural phenomenon.
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Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature
Attridge, Derek. 2021. Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature. In F. G. Robinson & B. Lewis (Eds.), The Work of World L...
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Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature
Attridge, Derek. 2021. Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature. In F. Giusti & B. L. Robinson (Eds.), The Work of World ...
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Desire, Agency, and Gender in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry
The Song of Songs, a collection of ancient erotic poetry known to the modern reader as a part of the Jewish and Christian Bible, belongs to the ancient Near Eastern tradition of love poetry together with the poems written in Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian.
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The race for reparation(s), the (im)possibility of repair in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull
Phiri, Aretha. 2020. The race for reparation(s), the (im)possibility of repair in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Antjie Krog’s Country of My Sk...
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51 Poetas: Antologia Intima
Coetzee, John Maxwell, ed. 2015. 51 Poetas: Antologia Intima. Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna. http://www.elhilodeariadna.org/colecciones/l...
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Short Stories of the World: Africa
This intended collection will include around 20 African short stories which will be translated into Icelandic.
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Dog-human correlations in post-Soviet and post-apartheid literature and film
My research project falls into the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies and deals with the discursive formation of human-dog correlation in socio-political discourse.
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51 Poets: an Anthology of World Poetry
For a Latin American publisher I have undertaken to compile an anthology of world poetry.