Language & identity
Articles
- ‘His Grief Is the Plague’ : Poetry of Loss and the Risk of Losing One’s Readers
This article discusses the book Lalomanu, a selection of poetry by Spanish-Australian writer, Jorge Salavert, written in response to the death of his daughter Clea in the tsumani that struck Samoa just after dawn on 29 September 2009. Salavert’s…
1 November 2013 - Coetzee and Wicomb: Writers Giving an Account of Themselves in Age of Iron and October
J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and Zoë Wicomb’s October feature female writers who are also academics giving an account of themselves through an autobiographical project engaging the genres, respectively, of the epistle and the memoir. While the aim is…
25 February 2018