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Writing Body as Land & Land as Body in Mine Mine Mine
Phalafala, Uhuru Portia. 2024. ‘Writing Body as Land & Land as Body in Mine Mine Mine.’ In S. A. Murray & M. Betty (Eds.), The Creat...
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Reframing the Black Atlantic
Phiri, Aretha. 2024. Reframing the Black Atlantic. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978100347300
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Leila Aboulela: Writing Women, Writing Islam
This is a book-length biography of Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela (b.
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Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures
Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 316–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/...
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The Ludic Impulse: Race Narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light
Phiri, Aretha. 2022. The Ludic Impulse: Race Narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Lig...
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Afterlives
Gurnah, Abdulrazak . 2020. Afterlives (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afterlives-9781526615879/
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Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Phiri, Aretha. 2019. Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In Emilia Mar...
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Purple Hibiscus and theme of moderation as a metaphor in the evolution of contemporary Nigerian fiction
Nwankwọ E, Izuu. 2018. Purple Hibiscus and theme of moderation as a metaphor in the evolution of contemporary Nigerian fiction. Internationa...
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Re-engaging master narratives: Re-encountering Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Esiaba Irobi’s Sycorax
Nwankwọ E., Izuu. 2018. Re-engaging master narratives: Re-encountering Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Esiaba Irobi’s Sycorax. The Journal of C...
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Self-Imposed Exile, Marginality, and Homosexuality in the Novels of Abdellah Taïa, Rachid O., and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri
Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Self-Imposed Exile, Marginality, and Homosexuality in the Novels of Abdellah Taïa, Rachid O., and Eyet-Chékib Djaziri. ...
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Women and North African Literatures
Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Women and North African Literatures. In The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies (pp. 1–17). Cham: Springer Int...
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Mobility, Subjectivity and the Poetics of Space-making in the Western Indian Ocean Novels
Literary works by African writers of Asian descent construct the experiences of Asian communities in the western Indian Ocean (East Africa) as counter-narratives that seek to provide alternative and more nuanced accounts of Asian presence in the region.
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Critical Illegibility, Blackness and Scoring Dangerous Freedoms
My project examines the possibility of reconfiguring conventional literary analytic practice by crafting critical approaches which are less invested in rendering texts ‘transparent’ than in approximating, embracing and extending the transgressive energies and insights of creative texts.
