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Submissions welcome (September 2019)

2018-06-14

We are currently accepting research articles for the September 2019 issue of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: A journal for African literature.

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Current Issue

Vol 55 No 1 (2018)

Published: 2018-03-28

Research articles

Modernities and our inner Africas

Breyten Breytenbach

5-17
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Véronique Tadjo: Is there hope beyond the divisions in contemporary Africa?

Elisabeth Snyman

18-27
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Revisiting trauma and homo religiosus in selected texts by Mongo Beti and Véronique Tadjo

Shelton Muvuti

28-40
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Of dirt, disinfection and purgation: Discursive construction of state violence in selected contemporary Zimbabwean literature

Gibson Ncube

41-53
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The writing of Arthur Fula: modernity, language, place and religion

Hein Willemse

54-69
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Narrating the past: reflections on recent Black Afrikaans writing

Steward van Wyk

70-80
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La traversée de l’Atlantique ou la mort ? Une réflexion critique sur la notion d’échange

Patrick Kabeya Mwepu

81-89
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Indigeneity in modernity. The cases of Kgebetli Moele and Niq Mhlongo

Lesibana Rafapa

90-109
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Images of woman and the search for happiness in Cynthia Jele's Happiness is a four letter word

Rodwell Makombe

110-121
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Representation of racial and sexual 'others' in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp

Martina Vitackova

122-133
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Contemporary Zimbabwean popular music in the context of adversities

Doreen Rumbidzai Tivenga

134-148
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Sol T. Plaatje's paremiological quest: a common humanity in cultural diversity

Khekheti Makhudu

149-165
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Tributes

R. E. van der Ross (1921-2017)

Hein Willemse

166-169
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Keorapetse Kgotsitsile (1938-2018)

Hein Willemse

170-173
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Review articles

'n ope brief aan Dorian Gray en 'n peiling van die Afrikaanse resensiebedryf

Neil Cochrane

175-186
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Book reviews

Skollie: One man's struggle to survive by telling stories (John W. Fredericks)

Keyan G. Tomaselli

187-189
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A Gap in the Hedge (Johan Vlok Louw)

Andy Carolin

189-191
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Iziganeko zesizwe: Occasional Poems (S. E. K. Mqhayi)

Thulani Mkhize

191-193
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Oorlog en terpentyn (Stefan Hertmans)

Tycho Maas

193-195
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Groen soos die hemel daarbo (Eben Venter)

Stefan Van Zyl

195-197
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Die wêreld van Charlie Oeng (Etienne van Heerden)

Adéle Nel

197-199
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Die diepblou see (Francois Loots)

Reinhardt Fourie

200-202
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Die derde spoel (S.J. Naudé)

Francois Smith

202-204
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Nou, hier (Corné Coetzee)

Bibi Burger

204-207
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Radbraak (Jolyn Phillips)

Alfred Schaffer

207-210
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Vuurvas (Carel Antonissen)

Cas Wepener

210-213
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Voor ek my kom kry (Pirow Bekker)

Amanda Lourens

213-216
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Nuwe stemme 6 (Bibi Slippers en Charl-Pierre Naudé)

Yves T'Sjoen

216-219
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Uittogboek (Johan Myburg)

Alwyn Roux

219-222
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Krap uit die see (Fourie Botha)

Louise Viljoen

222-225
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Skepelinge (Karel Schoeman)

Chris van der Merwe

225-227
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Die reis gaan inwaarts: Die kuns van sterwe in kreatiewe werke van Karel Schoeman (Cas Wepener)

Johann Rossouw

227-230
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