Second language learners and users of the English language are bilinguals who have acquired a reasonable mastery of their mother tongue or the language of their immediate environment before being exposed to the English ...

Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria quartet is a tetralogy which explores the multi-perspectival nature of truth and reality. Using the first two novels, Justine and Balthazar, this article will briefly explore the palimpsestic ...

This paper considers the timing and entry into public discourse of ‘Radical Economic Transformation’ as a concept that is open to deliberate misinterpretation in the media. Whilst, as the title suggests, it is necessary ...

This article examines the fluid gender boundaries embodied in the figure of Pierrot in Christopher Dowson’s The Pierrot of the Minute. The central pivot of this slight play is the ambivalent figure of Pierrot and his ...

The mass-appearance of female heroes in popular culture in recent decades may encourage the opinion that the female hero has achieved the same credibility as her male counterpart. This article demonstrates, however, that ...

The Gothic double is an effective motif through which to explore the self’s relation to itself. But where traditional Gothic literature positions the protagonist and the double as antagonists, some contemporary literature ...

Some writers have attempted a comparison of South African post-apartheid literature written by blacks with that produced by their white compatriots, as in Anne Putter’s (2012) enlightening analyses of Ivan Vladislavic’s ...

The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) has been documented as an AIC the trope of Christian religion of which is tampered with Africanism. Such an Africanism encapsulates the valuing of oral history and other aspects of orature ...

The concept of “home” is inextricably linked with identity – be it personal, cultural, ethnic or national identity. The fact that numerous significations (notably homeland, home language, or home ground) accrue to the ...