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Alan Paton, The Hero of Currie Road

The Hero of Currie Road: Complete Short Pieces, by Alan Paton (Umuzi, 2008) [Review originally published in Afrikaans in Rapport, 24 August 2008] The Hero of Currie Road collects a variety of short p… more →

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Doctor Saves Literary Reputation

georgyriecke wrote 4 months ago: You may recall the smattering of controversy over the political intentions of the Swedish writer Vik … more →

Tags: Writers, Viktor Kesserman, fear of hair, racist propaganda

Alan Paton, The Hero of Currie Road — 1 comment

Rustum wrote 10 months ago: The Hero of Currie Road: Complete Short Pieces, by Alan Paton (Umuzi, 2008) [Review originally publi … more →

Tags: Reading, Politics And Culture, Archive, Reviews, Fiction, South African literature, Short Fiction, Alan Paton, Short Stories

Raging Canons

Tommy Jadoo wrote 1 year ago: By Tommy Jadoo A support of the Guillorian perspective of the canon. One cannot help but wonder i … more →

Tags: John Guillory, canon, noncanonical, Edward Said, Multiculturalism, Literary, Literature, text, Education

Harry Potter and the Politics of Literature — 2 comments

bklunk wrote 1 year ago: Entertainment Weekly recently selected J.K. Rowling as its “Entertainer of the Year,” at least in p … more →

Tags: Department events, faculty, Podcast, University of the Pacific, Political Science, Harry Potter, JK Rowling

White Scars

Rustum wrote 2 years ago: Denis Hirson, White Scars: On Reading and Rites of Passage (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2006) As Hirson me … more →

Tags: Journal, Reading, anti-apartheid struggle, apartheid, Baruch Hirson, Breyten Breytenbach, Chris van Wyk, Denis Hirson, Derek Walcott


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