English Academy Review, Volume 25, Issue 1 (2008)

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Editorial

Editorial
The local, the global, and the literary imaginary
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Locations of the literary

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Global literary refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters in the post‐Cold War era
Debjani Ganguly
Pages: 4-19
Published online: 28 May 2008
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‘In broken images’: Difference and emancipation within the communal process of social inquiry
Jenny De Reuck
Pages: 20-28
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Between cultures

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Crossing boundaries, making home: Issues of belonging and migration in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines
Erik Peeters
Pages: 29-39
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Of translators, travellers and readers:The transmission of knowledge in contexts of power in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier
Tina Steiner
Pages: 40-50
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Women out of Africa

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Diaspora, gender and identity:Twinning in three diasporic novels
Brenda Cooper
Pages: 51-65
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Self‐made women in a (racist) man's world: The ‘tragic’ lives of Nella Larsen and Bessie Head
Diana Mafe
Pages: 66-76
Published online: 28 May 2008
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The global imaginary

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Reading ethics in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello:The globalizing world, the normal and damnation
Gilbert Yeoh
Pages: 77-88
Published online: 28 May 2008
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‘Unsettled and unsettling others’:The ‘double vision’ of local and global in Breytenbach's later travelogues
Ileana Dimitriu
Pages: 89-103
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Imaginary homelands

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Uncanny ethnicities:The story of the Griqua in South African travel writing and narrative fiction
Dirk Klopper
Pages: 104-111
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Anne Landsman's The Devil's Chimney:A magical realist narrative for a new nation?
Jill Nudelman
Pages: 112-122
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Book Reviews
Pages: 123-132
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Essay

An Image of Animals: Speciesism in Coetzee's Disgrace
Gareth Cornwell
Pages: 133-138
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Poetry

Taxi, Durban style - Sulette Gardiner
Pages: 139-147
Published online: 28 May 2008
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Original Articles

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English Academy Commemorative Lecture 2007: Michael O'Dowd
Pages: 148-153
Published online: 28 May 2008
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