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Call for Papers: “Literary Pro-vocations: Nuruddin Farah Five Decades On”

2018-09-20

Please submit for consideration an abstract of not more than 250 words by 30 November 2018. All queries and submissions should be sent to Fiona Moolla at fmoolla@uwc.ac.za.

Current Issue

Vol 55 No 3 (2018)

Special issue: "Dogs in Southern African literatures." Dan Wylie and Joan-Mari Barendse, editors.

No. 2 in the Kwê series, published by Van Schaik Publishers.

Published: 2018-12-13

Editorials

Introduction: Dogs in every corner

Dan Wylie, Joan-Mari Barendse
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Essays

Dog stories and why they matter

Karla Armbruster
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Research articles

Take a bow: Art and dog communication

Wilma Cruise
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“We are all souls”: Dogs, dog-wo/men and borderlands in Coetzee and Tyulkin

Henrietta Mondry
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Dog guides as witnesses with specific reference to Miles and Houellebecq

Catherine du Toit
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Canine embodiment in South African lyric poetry

Wendy Woodward
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Symbolic values of the dog in Afrikaans literature

Gerda Taljaard-Gilson
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Afrikaans stories of Jackal and Hyena: Oral and written traditions

Jacomien van Niekerk
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Oswald Pirow’s Ashambeni (1955): a “history” of dogs, humans, werewolves

Joan-Mari Barendse
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On queerly reading canid tropes in Eben Venter’s Wolf, Wolf

Wemar Strydom
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Dark ecology and the representation of canids in Deon Meyer’s Fever

Bibi Burger
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Canine agents in two South African short stories

Mathilda Slabbert
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History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975–2015

Innocent Dande, Sandra Swart
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Wildness and colonialism in “The Story of Two Dogs” by Doris Lessing

Pat Louw
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“They’ve killed the dogs!”: Land, literature and canines in contemporary Zimbabwe

Dan Wylie
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