Journal of Literary Studies

Animal Studies, Decoloniality and San Rock Art and Myth

We Are Already Dead. Long May We Live!: Death as Event in Koos Prinsloo’s Metropolis

Vicissitudes of Reading the Mahabharata as History: Problems Concerning Historicism and Textualism

The Event of Love and the Being of Morals: A Deleuzian Reading of Iris Murdoch’s The Bell

Fiction, Reality and Contested Memory in God’s Bits of Wood and the “Marikana Commission Report”

Magrita Prinslo (1896), Magdalena Retief (1938) and Mies Julie (2012): From Historical Afrikaner Mothers of the Nation to a Modern Afrikanermeisie (Girl)

“Made of Sterner Stuff”: Female Agency and Resilience in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls

“Colonial Botany”: Conservationists and Orchid Hunters in Popular Afrikaans Fiction Set in the Congo (D.R.C.) and Central Africa from 1949-1962

Masculinities at War: The South African Border War and the Textual Representation of the “Moffie”

Heteroglossia and the Destabilisation of Authorial Voice in Bruce Moore-King’s White Man Black War

Arboreal Being: Encounters with Trees in Recent Southern African Fiction

Replenishing and Recycling an Exhausted History in Lydia R. Diamond’s Voyeurs de Venus

“Haunted Still by Memories”: John Eppel’s Post-Settler Plant Poetic

Gender and Jesus as Allegory

Savouring What Remains of the World’s Wildness: John Muir, Tree-Climbing, and Experiential, Outdoor Education

From the Outside Looking In: The Yiddish Poems of the Lithuanian South African Poet David Fram (1903-1988)

Pan speaks – Mythologising Non-human Voices in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth

The Journey Back: Ambivalent (Re)Presentations of Pre-Colonial Women in Post-Independent Shona Novels

Koos Prinsloo’s “New World”

Land, Race and Victimhood in Peter Godwin’s When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

Koos Prinsloo and Discourses of Power

“A Coffee-Plantation is a Thing that Gets Hold of You and Does Not Let You Go”: Plant-Writing in Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa

“Authentic” Queer Identities – Koos Prinsloo as a Site of Contestation

Eugène N. Marais and the Waterberg Cycad (Encephalartos eugene-maraisii Verdoorn)

The Influence of D.H. Lawrence on John Fowles’s Early Fiction: Blood Consciousness, Women, and Heraclitus

The Haunting Presence of Lost Futures in The Third Reel by S.J. Naudé