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The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-apartheid South African Literature (2024)
Journal Article
Nivesjö, S. (2024). The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-apartheid South African Literature. English Studies in Africa, 67(2), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2024.2377516

This article identifies and explores an inciting incident in two pre-apartheid South African novels: the trope of an ‘arrival from abroad’. This trope centres on a character arriving by train from a place figured as foreign, whether that is Cape Town... Read More about The Arrival from Abroad: Train Travel and Mobile Ideas of Race in Pre-apartheid South African Literature.

Solidarity and gender in protest novels: Bessie Head’s 'The Cardinals' and Miriam Tlali’s 'Muriel at Metropolitan' (2024)
Journal Article
Nivesjö, S. (2024). Solidarity and gender in protest novels: Bessie Head’s 'The Cardinals' and Miriam Tlali’s 'Muriel at Metropolitan'. #Journal not on list, 50(3), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.4314/eia.v50i3.3

This article analyses the critical role of gender within racial solidarity in anti-apartheid protest writing by comparing Bessie Head’s The Cardinals and Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan. Both novels depict the protagonist’s experience of being... Read More about Solidarity and gender in protest novels: Bessie Head’s 'The Cardinals' and Miriam Tlali’s 'Muriel at Metropolitan'.