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Volume 50 (2018): Issue 1 (Jun 2018): Special Issue: Reading Africa: Ruins and Reconstructions

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Preface
Pages: 5–8
Publication Date: 14 Jun 2018
Obituary of Michael Wessels (1958–2018)
Remarks Made on the Occasion of a Memorial Service in Celebration of His Life, University of the Western Cape, 14 May 2018
Pages: 9–11
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Reading Our Ruins
A Rough Sketch
Pages: 13–27
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Ghosting Through Our Ruins
Pages: 28–47
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Writing out of Ruins
Stories of District Six, Food and Home
Pages: 48–59
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Witnessing the Ruins of Apartheid
The Women’s Jail (Johannesburg) as a Site of Encounter
Pages: 60–80
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From the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific
Creolisation, Magic, and Mimesis in Oceanic Networks
Pages: 81–101
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Lack of Return in Nigeria-Biafra Civil War Literature
A Case for a TRC?
Pages: 102–127
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Incarceration and Torture in Eastern African Fiction
Issues in Representation
Pages: 128–151
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The Role of the Surreal in Postcolonial African Writing
The Case of Legson Kayira’s Jingala and The Detainee
Pages: 152–168
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Drawing the Divine Seed
India, Alterity and the Real in the Works of J.M. Coetzee
Pages: 169–187
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Separating the Magical from the Real
The Representation of the Barwa in Zakes Mda’s She Plays with the Darkness
Pages: 188–207
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Reflections on Literary Studies in South Africa
Re-reading Zakes Mda’s Black Diamond
Pages: 208–227
Publication Date: 14 Jun 2018