Browsing Volume 6, Issue 1, November 2013 by Title
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American Self-Fashioning in Helen Foster Snow's My China Years.
(2013)In My China Years: A Memoir, Helen Foster Snow draws upon her Puritan roots in fashioning an American self that affirms the power of an individual exemplary life, the ability to exercise free will amid struggle, an optimism ... -
Becoming a Global Subject: Language and the Body in Xiaolu Guo's A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
(2013)This article examines the relationship between language and the body in the construction of global subjectivity in Xiaolu Guo's novel, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007), a first-person narrative about ... -
Cosmopolitanism and Subversion of 'Home' in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore
(2013)The novels of Caryl Phillips have most commonly been approached from post-colonial theoretical perspectives, a trend which appears entirely appropriate given their recurrent themes of immigration, ethnic discrimination and ... -
Figurations of the Spiritual Squalid in Allen Ginsberg's Indian Journals: Transformation of India in Post-War Beat and American Imagination
(2013)This article explores the impact that India had on Beat imagination with specific emphasis on Ginsberg's under-studied Indian Journals, written during his travels in India in 1962-63, and published in 1970. The earlier ... -
Fragmentary Introspective Observations: Animals, Emotions and Location in John Kinsella's Poetry
(2013)Review essay on two books by John Kinsella, The Jaguar's Dream and Jam Tree Gully (peer reviewed) -
'How Shall I be Saved?' The Salvation of Mrs Curren in Coetzee's Age of Iron
(2013)Previous scholarship has ignored extensive Christian references in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron, focusing instead on the story as an allegory for political struggle in South Africa. The thesis of this paper is that Age of ... -
An Inquiry of Intentions in Kim Hye-yong's 'First Meeting': A North Korean Short Story in Korea Today (2007).
(2013)This paper examines the problem of the intentional fallacy in the North Korean short story 'First Meeting' by Kim Hye-yong. Serially published in Korea Today in 2007, the nationalist allegory centres on Shin Ch'ong-mi, a ... -
'Looking Back is Looking Forward': Towards a Theory of Tradition in Niyi Osundare's Poetry
(2013)As T.S. Eliot informs us, no one ever has his meaning alone, since the artist does not create ex nihilo. Thus, every artist looks to the past-or Tradition - for inspiration and, indeed, for the very material of creativity. ...