dc.contributor.author |
Northover, Richard Alan
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dc.contributor.author |
Fourie, Reinhardt
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-03-06T07:24:38Z |
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dc.date.available |
2017-03-06T07:24:38Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2017-03-01 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Alan Northover &Northover, R. Alan and Fourie, Reinhardt. (2017). “Stranger in a Strange Land”. Journal of Literary Studies 33(1): 76-77. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1753-5387 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0256-4718 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2017.1290380 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22093 |
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dc.description.abstract |
On 15 April 2016, the South African Society for General Literary Studies/
Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Algemene Literatuurwetenskap (SASGLS/
SAVAL) hosted a colloquium at the University of South Africa on the topic
“Stranger in a strange land”. The colloquium’s theme was taken from the
King James version of the Bible and refers to Moses’ sojourn in a foreign
country after being exiled from Egypt, marrying his host’s daughter: “And
she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been
a stranger in a strange land” (Exodus 2: 22). The theme was proposed in
2015 against the backdrop of renewed outbreaks of xenophobic violence in
South Africa and the mass migration of Syrian refugees to Europe as a result
of ongoing civil war in their country. However, the theme was also meant to
elicit papers on any other aspects of the figure of the stranger, alienation and
alterity. The call for papers noted that the phrase “stranger in a strange land”
was used as the title of a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein (1961). As
a theme (taken out of biblical context), the phrase covers not only physical
displacement (both spatial and temporal) but also psychological, cultural,
social and political alienation. |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Routledge Taylor&Francis |
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dc.subject |
stranger in a strange land |
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dc.subject |
alienation |
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mass migration |
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xenophobia |
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animality |
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hospitality |
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dc.subject |
stranger |
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dc.subject |
unhomely |
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dc.title |
Stranger in a strange land |
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dc.type |
Article |
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dc.description.department |
English Studies |
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