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Poems, Robert Crawford
Poems, Robert Crawford
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THE TELEPHONE, DEINCARNATION, LIGLAG, SENSATION OF ANOTHER LANGUAGE
Kunapipi 20 (3) 1998 Full Version, John Kinsella
Kunapipi 20 (3) 1998 Full Version, John Kinsella
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Kunapipi 20 (3) 1998 Full version.
Facets Of Women In Malay Romance Fiction, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Shahizah Ismail Hamdan
Facets Of Women In Malay Romance Fiction, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Shahizah Ismail Hamdan
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In this essay, we analyse four Malay romance novels within the context of the debate on high literature versus popular literature in Malaysia. We also discuss the images and portrayals of Malay women, the chick lit phenomenon and the formulaic romance plot to examine gender relations as well as the role of contemporary Malay romance novels as a potential space to express women’s voice and experience.
Navigating The Lagos Cityscape In Chris Abani’S "Graceland", Christopher E.W Ouma
Navigating The Lagos Cityscape In Chris Abani’S "Graceland", Christopher E.W Ouma
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In Chris Abani’s Graceland, the city is a spatio-temporal terrain connecting diverse worlds. It is a place of dialogue and conflict, a ‘city of attractions’ (Highmore 45) and distractions, dystopia and utopia. As an urban space, Abani’s Lagos is seen through a rookery, a tenement city called Maroko and through the life story of the sixteen-year-old protagonist, Elvis Oke. The plot development alternates between Lagos the city in the present and Afikpo, Elvis’s countryside home — in the past. This shift in time and space moves memory between Afikpo and Lagos, and plots the simultaneity of dystopian and utopian living …