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Volu
me 2
(1)
2011
Volu
me 2
(1) 2
011
Unisa P
ress
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF AFRICAN LITERARY
AND COMPARATIVE
STUDIES
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF AFRICAN LITERARY
AND COMPARATIVE
STUDIES
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Articles
The rediscovery of self: the clarification of the tragic human experience of oppression through the depiction of
conflict and credible characterisation in Njabulo S. Ndebele's Fools & other stories
Marc Schulman ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
'Before the poets could speak': a discussion of selected black-authored and white-authored pre-independence
Zimbabwean poems
Rosemary Moyana ...................................................................................................................................................... 11
The re-articulation of hope from grief: Nigerian Civil War poetry as ledger
Ogaga Okuyade .......................................................................................................................................................... 27
Beyond (?) feminism: signs of a 'gylanic resurgence' in the South African poetry of the Feela Sistah!
spoken word collective
Raphael d'Abdon ......................................................................................................................................................... 42
The 'surplus value' of the Rwanda genocide in Romeo Dallaire's film A good man in hell (2002)
Urther Rwafa ............................................................................................................................................................... 64
Strategies of surviving HIV and AIDS: Lutanga Shaba's Secrets of a woman's soul
Anna Chitando ............................................................................................................................................................. 72
Historical transformations and contemporary realities in Mathew Umukoro's Nana Olomu: a historical play
Ogaga Okuyade........................................................................................................................................................... 92
Discursive displacement, strategic peopling: constructions of self identity and nation in Ian Douglas Smith's
Bitter harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath and Peter Godwin's Mukiwa – a white boy in Africa
Tasiyana D. Javangwe................................................................................................................................................. 105
Pursuing the humanity of the subalterns on the farm in Zimbabwean literature
Erick Nyoni and Salachi Naidoo ................................................................................................................................... 124
'Silence in court!': Non-verbal communication in a Zimbabwean court of law
Umali Saidi and Charles Pfukwa................................................................................................................................... 136
Book and film reviews
Review of: J. Wawrzinek and J.K.S. Makokha (eds.). 2011. Negotiating Afropolitanism: essays on borders and
spaces in contemporary African literature and folklore.
Raphael d'Abdon (University of.... )................................................................................................................................ 149
Review of: C. Magwaro. 2009. A season's assemblage.
Mzukisi Lento (English Studies, University of South Africa)........................................................................................... 152
Re-reading, re-configuring and contesting the black body in the 21st century
Phomolo Mosito (University of Johannesburg).............................................................................................................. 158
Review of: P.D. Gqola. 2010. What is slavery to me? Postcolonial/Slave memory
in post-apartheid South Africa.
Isaac Ndlovu (University of Cape Town) ........................................................................................................................ 162
ISSN 2978-9785
university of south africa PRESS
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