Fabrications and the question of a National South African literature

Oliphant, Andries Walter

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“…Journals have also impacted the growth of society as well. Issues that have not been solved for a long period of time and have been discussed in periodic journals tend to trigger concern among the responsible parties and other bodies, for example, an instance of gender discrimination at a workplace [9]. If someone gets discriminated against in a work setting and nothing is done at that moment, publishing a journal article about that topic will spike the eyes of many people.…”

Section: Analysis Of the Impactmentioning

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The Impact and Limitation of Social Media on Literacy Journals

Zhao¹

2023

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Social media is a primary database from which more relevant information is accessed from the comfort of the researcher's home. As a source of information on the internet, literary journals have greatly influenced the growth of the internet more beneficially. Many authors' opinions on particular subjects are frequently found in literary periodicals and journals like The New Yorker and The England Review, among others. This enables another researcher or author to have access to a variety of viewpoints and ideas. Literary journals frequently focus on and address a range of issues that have an impact on people's daily lives. It makes the reader aware of the social climate at the time and gives them the tools they need to handle it. Additionally, it allows the reader to gain expertise in a variety of fields without directly participating in the scenarios. Literary journals also provide a voice to the unheard in society by bringing up concerns that concern the weak and have gone unaddressed for a long time. Like other online knowledge sources, literary journals have their limitations. This essay primarily focuses on the influence of social media on literacy journals and also the impact and limitations of these literacy journals on the growth of social media.

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Section: Analysis Of the Impactmentioning

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The Impact and Limitation of Social Media on Literacy Journals

Zhao¹

2023

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“…The term "nation" also has different connotations in different contexts (Oliphant, 2004). My use of the term acknowledges that both Norway and Eritrea are imagined and constructed as nations, though at different times and in significantly different ways.…”

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PhD revisited: How students in Eritrea and Norway make sense ofliterature

Munden¹

2019

English Didactics in Norway

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This chapter summarises a doctoral study (Munden, 2010) that describes, compares and explains how student teachers make sense of literature. The twenty-two participants were student teachers of English in either Norway or Eritrea. They first wrote answers to a questionnaire and then to assignments based on three literary texts. How and what they wrote provides insight into their cultural and academic expectations and socialisation, both as members of an interpretive community and as individuals. These insights can contribute to raising English teachers' awareness of how differently learners make sense of texts in their own classrooms.KEYWORDS Norway | Eritrea | English-language literature | reader response 1. The chapter presents the main findings of a doctoral study (Munden, 2010) from the University of Oslo. The thesis in its entirety -with theoretical, methodological and empirical details -can be found here: https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/handle/11250/132010.

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“…In the South African context, where the idea of a national literature has been a vexed question in the past (Attwell and Attridge, 2012; Nkosi, 2002; Oliphant, 2004) and continues to be contested in the context of the country’s postapartheid shift towards a “transnational cosmopolitanism” (Frenkel, 2016: 4), the short story has been utilized by various population groups to claim belonging and/or express dissent with repressive political orthodoxies. 1 Most notably, however, short story criticism on apartheid as well as contemporary short story writing in South Africa has consistently emphasized the genre’s disposition to capture the fragmented realities of socio-political transitions in the country (MacKenzie, 1999a; Marais, 2014; Oliphant, 1996).…”

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The short story in South Africa post-2000: Critical reflections on a genre in transition

Fasselt

Sandwith

Soldati-Kahimbaara

2018

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This editorial offers critical reflections on short story writing in South Africa post-2000. Against the background of critical scholarship on the short story form and thematic trends of short story anthologies since the late 1980s, we argue that short story criticism on apartheid as well as contemporary South African short story writing has consistently emphasized the genre’s disposition to capture the fragmented realities of socio-political transitions in the country. Critics have frequently observed a shift from the overtly politicized short story of the 1970s and 1980s to a return to a more literary and modernist aesthetics in the present. In this special issue, we intend to complicate this reading by mapping out other trajectories the short story has taken in recent years, which point toward the emergence of more popular subgenres such as speculative fiction, crime fiction, and erotic fiction. Short stories also increasingly examine and challenge conventional sexuality and/or gender-based norms.

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Fabrications and the question of a National South African literature

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

The Impact and Limitation of Social Media on Literacy Journals

The Impact and Limitation of Social Media on Literacy Journals

PhD revisited: How students in Eritrea and Norway make sense ofliterature

The short story in South Africa post-2000: Critical reflections on a genre in transition

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