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Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi, and Urther Rwafa. "Violence and Genocide in African Literature and Film." Journal of Literary Studies 30, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 35–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2014.931041.

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Priebe, Richard K. "Literature, Community, and Violence: Reading African Literature in the West, Post-9/11." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 2 (June 2005): 46–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.46.

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Priebe, Richard. "Literature, Community, and Violence: Reading African Literature in the West, Post-9/11." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 2 (2005): 46–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0130.

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Kerr, David. "African film and literature: adapting violence to the screen." Critical Arts 24, no. 2 (July 2010): 298–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560041003786540.

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Chasi, Colin T. "Provisional notes on ubuntu for journalists covering war." International Communication Gazette 78, no. 8 (July 27, 2016): 802–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048516642730.

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There is a growing pool of literature on the implications for journalism of the African moral philosophy of ubuntu. However, little of this literature is framed around the conception that the world is fundamentally violent and/or that communication itself is violent, focusing on the idea of harmonious life. This article contributes to changing this, insisting that valuing of harmonious community relations should neither involve denying the violence within which communities are established nor the taking for granted of any “we.” After all, communication is violent and failing to conceptualize African journalistic practice in ways that are consistent with how Africans inordinately experience violence is concerning. With special interest in news regarding violent, I draft a provisional understanding of news that reflects values of ubuntu, tentatively conceptualizing news values inspired by ubuntu, and advocating an ubuntu-informed normative account of how journalists should cover conflict, war, and possibilities regarding peace.

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Aira Gallardo, Maika. "“WOMEN RELINQUISH ALL PERSONAL RIGHTS IN FRONT OF A MAN”: ANALYZING SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN NTOZAKE SHANGE’S FOR COLORED GIRLS." RAUDEM. Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 1 (May 22, 2017): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v1i0.573.

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ResumenThe presence of gender violence in the media has led to the misconception that it is a social problem of the twenty-first century. However, in the literature of the last century, it can be seen that this phenomenon has always been present. Through the analysis of the play for colored girls, written by Ntozake Shangue, this essay will explore the situation of African- American women in American society in the twentieth century, focusing on the constant presence and threat of sexual violence suffered by the seven protagonists in a society where they suffer double discrimination.Key words: sexual violence, African American, literature, trauma.Título en español: “Women Relinquish All Personal Rights in Front of a Man”: análisis de la violencia sexual en For Coloured Girls de Ntozake Shange.Resumen: La presencia de violencia de género en los medios de comunicación nos ha llevado a la idea errónea de que se trata de un problema social del siglo XXI, pero si nos sumergimos en la literatura del siglo pasado, descubriremos que este tema siempre ha estado presente. En este ensayo, exploraremos la situación de las mujeres afroamericanas en la sociedad estadounidense en el siglo XX a través del análisis de la obra de teatro for colored girls de Ntozake Shangue, centrándonos en la constante presencia y la amenaza de la violencia sexual que las siete protagonistas padecen en una sociedad donde son doblemente discriminadas.Palabras Clave: violencia sexual, afroamericana, literatura, trauma.

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Mboti, Nyasha. "Violence in Postcolonial African Film." Journal of Literary Studies 30, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 38–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2014.919101.

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Crowley, Dustin. "Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature. By Cajetan Iheka." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 200–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa003.

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Usanga, Kufre. "Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature by Cajetan Iheka." ariel: A Review of International English Literature 50, no. 2-3 (2019): 239–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2019.0021.

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Thiam, Cheikh. "Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature, by Chantal Kalisa." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 1 (March 2011): 181–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2011.42.1.181.

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Vitiello, Joëlle. "Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature (review)." Women in French Studies 19, no. 1 (2011): 148–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2011.0008.

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Mohammed Abdullah, Mustafa, Hardev Kaur, Ida Baizura Bt Bahar, and Manimangai Mani. "XENOPHOBIA AND CITIZENSHIP IN MEG VANDERMERWE’S ZEBRA CROSSING." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8, no. 2 (May 3, 2020): 756–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.8284.

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Purpose of the study: In the past two decades several researchers have explored the concern of xenophobia in South African fiction. Studies sought to determine the reasons behind the prevalence of xenophobic violence in South Africa. Previous research on xenophobia claims that xenophobic violence is prevalent in the state is, in fact, due to economic and social reasons only. Yet, this article aims to correct the misconception of the Rainbow Nation that South Africa was supposed to have been achieved after 1994. Methodology: The text Zebra Crossing (2013) by the South African novelist Meg Vandermerwe is under the focus. The concept of Michael Neocosmos of Citizenship from the postcolonial theory is applied to the selected text. A close reading of the text and qualitative research is the method of my analysis. The article will focus on the acts of violence reflected in the text in an attempt to find the reasons behind such acts. Neocosmos' valid conceptualization about the outbreaks of xenophobia in South Africa in the post-apartheid is applied to the selected text. Main Findings: the article will conclude that the notion of the rainbow nation in South Africa is no more than a dream due to the outbreaks of xenophobia and the ongoing violence against foreigners. It will also prove that the continuous xenophobic violence in South Africa is not because of social or economic reasons only yet, there is a political discourse that engenders and triggers the natives to be more xenophobic. Thus, the state politics of exclusion, indigeneity, and citizenship are the stimuli for citizens to be more aggressive and violent against foreigners. Applications of this study: the study will add new insight to the domain of English literature generally and the South African literature specifically. The study will be valuable in immigration literature as it deals with the plights of migrants in South Africa and their suffering from xenophobic violence. The study is located in the postcolonial approach. Novelty/Originality of this study: the study offers new insight towards xenophobia in South Africa. The concept applied in the study has not been explored so far in the selected text. Previous research claimed that xenophobia in South Africa is due to economic and social reasons but did not focus on the legacies of postcolonialism nor the new political system. The study is original and new as it discusses an ongoing and worldwide phenomenon utilizing a new concept.

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Naidoo, Salachi. "Re-thinking the feminist agenda in selected female authored Zimbabwean literature." DANDE Journal of Social Sciences and Communication 2, no. 2 (2018): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/dande.v2i2.51.

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This article investigates the feminist agenda in female authored Zimbabwean literature, with emphasis on the novel. It focuses largely on Virginia Phiri's Destiny and Highway Queen as well as Violet Masilo's The African Tea Cosy. The paper argues that Zimbabwean female authorship is flavoured with precepts of African feminism(s) in its representations of African women's agency in gender adversities. Framed within African feminism, women's agency derives from and gives meaning to an inescapable African-ness that needs to be accepted in the fight for emancipation. In light of this, the study analyses Zimbabwean women writers’ literary contributions to discourses on gender based violence and it explores how female characters have embraced the concept of agency to recreate their identities and to introduce a new gender ethos in the context of lives that are often shaped by severe restrictions and oppression. Although largely women focused, the African feminist text is concerned about the survival of both men and women.

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Cantone, Helena. "Lindiwe Dovey (2009) African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen." Film-Philosophy 14, no. 2 (October 2010): 137–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2010.0051.

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Jones, Douglas A. "Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature before Emancipation." American Literary History 33, no. 3 (August 3, 2021): 498–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab046.

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Abstract “Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature before Emancipation” reads scenes of embodied experience in early African American literary culture to theorize how persons come to regard democratic cultures as productive of the most excellent forms of life. The book proposes a typology of these iterative bodily events which dispose persons toward democratic subjectivity: ecstasy, violence, impersonality, respectability, and autonomy. [E]arly African American narratives offer speculations, categories, and hermeneutics concerning democracy grounded in Black life amid new-world chattel slavery that sometimes contradict, sometimes complement those that prevailed in early US political thought.

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P. B. Rodrigues, Isabel, and Kathleen Sheldon. "Cape Verdean and Mozambican Women's Literature: Liberating the National and Seizing the Intimate." African Studies Review 53, no. 3 (December 2010): 77–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0002020600005680.

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Abstract:In Mozambique and Cape Verde, writing in Portuguese by African women has directly engaged political reconstruction by denouncing colonial oppression and embracing national freedom. This article addresses the recent history of Lusophone African women's fiction, which has been pivotal in inscribing the intimate arena of sexuality and motherhood into power relations and has also revealed ways in which the domain of violence intersects with private lives. By focusing on two novels that exemplify this trend, this article demonstrates links between the political and the intimate. It also shows how Lusophone African authors contribute to healing social conflict through their narratives, and draws some conclusions about gender relations in the Lusophone African experience and across the continent.

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Langlands, Rebecca. "Latin Literature." Greece and Rome 64, no. 2 (October 2017): 188–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383517000092.

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I still remember the thrill of reading for the first time, as an undergraduate, Frederick Ahl's seminal articles ‘The Art of Safe Criticism’ and the ‘Horse and the Rider’, and the ensuing sense that the doors of perception were opening to reveal for me the (alarming) secrets of Latin poetry. The collectionWordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetryis a tribute to Ahl, and all twenty-two articles take his scholarship as their inspiration. Fittingly, this book is often playful and great fun to read, and contains some beautiful writing from its contributors, but also reflects the darker side of Latin literature's entanglement with violence and oppression. For the latter, see especially Joy Connolly's sobering discussion of ‘A Theory of Violence’ in Lucan, which draws on Achille Mbembe's theory of the reiterative violence of everyday life that sustains postcolonial rule in Africa (273–97), which resonates bleakly beyond Classical scholarship to the present day. Elsewhere there is much emphasis (ha!) on the practice and effects of veiled speech, ambiguity, and hidden meanings. Pleasingly, Michael Fontaine identifies what he calls ‘Freudian Bullseyes’ in Virgil: a ‘correct word that hits the mark’ (141) that also reveals – simply and directly – the unspoken guilty preoccupations of the speaker: Dido's lust for Aeneas, Aeneas’ grief-stricken sense of responsibility for Pallas’ death. A citation from F. Scott Fitzgerald'sTender is the Nightprovides the chilling final line of Emily Gowers’ delicious article about what ripples out beyond the coincidence of sound of Dido/bubo. The volume explores subversive responses to power (for example, the articles of Erica Bexley and David Konstan), as well as the risk of powerful retaliation (Rhiannon Ash considers the political consequences of poetry as represented by Tacitus). There are also broader methodological reflections on interpretation, from musings on the reader's pleasure at decoding the hidden messages of wordplay such as puns, anagrams, and acrostics (as Fitch puts it, ‘the pleasure of wit, combined with the pleasure of active involvement’ [327]) to exploration of the anxiety of a reader who worries that they may be over-interpreting a text. Contributions variously address the ‘paranoia’ of literary criticism and the drive to try to ground meaning in the text and prove authorial intention: while John Fitch asks if the wordplay ‘really is there’ in the etymological names used by Seneca in his plays (314), Alex Dressler's article (37–68) helps frame the various modes of interpretation that we find in subsequent articles, by putting interpretation itself under scrutiny. His intriguing analysis introduces the helpful motif of espionage (interweaving Syme's possible post-war role in intelligence with Augustan conspiracy and conspiracy theories) and concludes that – like double agents – ‘secret meanings’ need a handler (53) and we readers need to take responsibility for our own partisan readings.

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Stein, Serena, and Jessie Luna. "Toxic Sensorium." Environment and Society 12, no. 1 (September 1, 2021): 87–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ares.2021.120106.

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Pesticides and toxicity are constitutive features of modernization in Africa, despite ongoing portrayals of the continent as “too poor to pollute.” This article examines social science scholarship on agricultural pesticide expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. We recount the rise of agrochemical usage in colonial projects that placed African smallholder farmers at the forefront of toxic vulnerability. We then outline prevalent literature on “knowledge deficits” and unsafe farmer practices as approaches that can downplay deeper structures. Missing in this literature, we argue, are the embodied and sensory experiences of African farmers as they become pesticide users, even amid an awareness of toxicity. Drawing on ethnographic research in Mozambique and Burkina Faso, we explore how the “toxic sensorium” of using agrochemicals intersects with farmers’ projects of modern aspiration. Th is approach can help elucidate why and how differently situated farmers live with pesticides, thereby expanding existing literature on structural violence and knowledge gaps.

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Thiam. "Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature, by Chantal Kalisa." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 1 (2011): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.2011.42.1.181.

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Thomas, Paris, Melani Duffrin, Christopher Duffrin, Kathryn Mazurek, Shondra L. Clay, and Terence Hodges. "Community violence and African American male health outcomes: An integrative review of literature." Health & Social Care in the Community 28, no. 6 (June 19, 2020): 1884–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13065.

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Taylor, Charles Fernandes, Jon CW Pevehouse, and Scott Straus. "Perils of pluralism: Electoral violence and incumbency in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Peace Research 54, no. 3 (May 2017): 397–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343316687801.

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Why do some multiparty elections lead to political violence while others do not? Despite extensive literatures on democratization, civil war, and violence against civilians in civil war, the topic of electoral violence has received less attention. We develop a set of theoretical propositions to explain this variation, testing them on an original dataset on African elections from 1990 to 2008. We find that elections in which an incumbent presidential candidate is running for re-election are significantly more likely to experience electoral violence, both prior to the election and after voting has taken place. We argue that clientelism is behind this pattern, and that clients often resort to electoral violence to protect a reliable incumbent patron. On the other hand, when an incumbent candidate is not running for office, we argue that clients are less willing to assume the risks of participating in electoral violence because candidates in the election have not established a record of delivering patronage at the executive level. We further find some evidence that pre-existing social conflicts increase the risk of pre-election violence. We suggest that this finding is due to the tendency of political elites to mobilize voters around pre-existing political and economic grievances to promote their candidacies, in turn heightening tensions and divisions. We also examine, but find little support for, a number of other possible determinants of electoral violence, such as regime type, income level, international observers, ongoing civil war, pathway to power, and first elections after civil war. The article contributes not only to a small but growing literature on electoral violence but also to a burgeoning literature on political behavior in African elections.

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McCloskey, Laura Ann, Floretta Boonzaier, Sheila Young Steinbrenner, and Theresa Hunter. "Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Prevention and Intervention Programs." Partner Abuse 7, no. 3 (2016): 277–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1946-6560.7.3.277.

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) in sub-Saharan Africa affects 36% of the population. Several African countries rank among the highest globally. In this article, we present evidence on the prevalence, determinants, and impact of IPV across several sub-Saharan African countries interpreted against the backdrop of social ecological theory. We also describe prevention or intervention programs tested in different regions of Africa, selecting only those programs which were published in a journal outlet and which met a high criteria of implementation and methodology (n = 7). Based on our review of the empirical literature, some risk factors for violence documented in Western societies are the same in Africa, including poverty, drinking, a past history of child abuse or posttraumatic stress disorder, and highly traditional gender role beliefs. Low education is also associated with IPV for both women and men. In Africa, partner abuse intersects with the HIV pandemic, making violence prevention especially urgent. African programs to prevent IPV are often incorporated with HIV prevention; community building and community engagement are emphasized more in Africa than in North America or Europe, which invoke more individually focused approaches. Some programs we review lowered HIV exposure in women; others contributed to reduced violence perpetration among men. The programs show sufficient promise to recommend replication and dissemination in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Ross, Fiona. "Linguistic Bearings and Testimonial Practices." Journal of Language and Politics 5, no. 1 (April 14, 2006): 111–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.5.1.07ros.

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The paper considers women’s testimonies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, tracing the complexities of speaking about suffering. A growing literature suggests that violence and horror corrupt language and interrupt its flow. Testimonial practices focused on violence’s recall then occupy unstable grounds. Arguing that testimony is mediated by the subject positions from which women speak and that these are shaped by cultural convention, the paper traces the effects of ‘modes of discomfort’, drawing attention to the faultlines between words and experience when violence is recalled.

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Kamalu, Ikenna, and Isaac Tamunobelema. "LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY IN SELECTED POSTCOLONIAL NIGERIAN LITERATURE." Imbizo 7, no. 2 (May 26, 2017): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2078-9785/1851.

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One of the greatest threats to national development and the rights of individuals and groups in Nigeria and some parts of Africa is the growing increase in religious fundamentalism by major religions in the continent. The worsening economic fortunes of many African countries, poor and corrupt leadership, the increase in ethnic nationalism, oppression of the minority by dominant powers and ideologies, external influences from extremist groups (Islamic and Christian), among others, have been suggested as likely causes of religious fundamentalism in Africa. The postcolonial Nigerian nation has suffered calamitous losses from religious conflicts. Consequently, some of Nigeriaâ€™s 21st century writers have tried in their works to present a situation in which groups use language to construct individual and collective identities and ideologies, legitimise their actions and justify acts of violence against others. The grammatical resource of mood and transitivity employed by the writers in the text under consideration enables them to represent individual and group experiences as well as intergroup relations in social interactions. Therefore, working within the tenets of critical stylistics (CS) and critical discourse analysis (CDA), this study aims to expose the ideological motivations that underlie the expression of religious discourses in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâ€™s Purple Hibiscus, Chidubem Iwekaâ€™s The Ancient Curse and Uwem Akpanâ€™s Luxurious Hearses and their implications for national stability and development. The data reveal that the sociopolitical climate in postcolonial Nigeria breeds a culture of hatred, intolerance, violence, exclusion and curtailment of individual and group rights in the name of religion and these acts are expressed in diverse discourse-grammatical patterns.

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Gehrmann, Susanne. "Remembering colonial violence: Inter/textual strategies of Congolese authors." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 46, no. 1 (November 8, 2017): 11–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.46i1.3461.

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This article explores the Congolese remembering of the experienced colonial violence through the medium of literature. Although criticism of colonialism is not a favourite topic of Congolese writers, there exists an important corpus of texts, especially when the literary production of Congo Kinshasa and Congo Brazzaville with their politically distinct though sometimes similar experiences is taken into account. Three main strategies of writing about the topic can be distinguished: a documentary mode, an allegorical mode and a fragmented mode, which often appear in combination. Intertextuality with the colonial archive as well as oral African narrations is a recurrent feature of these texts. The short stories of Lomami Tchibamba, of the first generation of Congolese authors writing in French, are analysed as examples for a dominantly allegorical narration. Mythical creatures taken from the context of oral literature become symbols for the process of alterity and power relations during colonialism, while the construction of a heroic figure of African resistance provides a counter-narrative to colonial texts of conquest. Thomas Mpoyi-Buatu’s novel La reproduction (1986) provides an example of fragmented writing that reflects the traumatic experience of violence in both Congolese memory of colonialism and Congolese suffering of the present violent dictatorial regime. The body of the protagonist and narrator becomes the literal site of remembering.

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Putri, Eryn Gemala. "NON-VIOLENCE PRINCIPLES IN KING’S SPEECHES AND ITS IMPACTS TO AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIETY." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 2, no. 2 (September 1, 2015): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v2i2.34262.

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This paper is aimed to analyze the non-violence principles in Martin Luther King’s speeches and the impacts to African American society and reveal the consistency of King in practicing non-violence principles. This study is a qualitative research, which is conducted under a library research. To describe and analyze non-violence principles in King’s speeches, the writer applied American Studies perspective of interdisciplinary approach. Therefore, it applies a number of related approaches in an integrated way: literature, social, and culture. The result of this research reveals that Martin Luther King is consistent in applying non-violence principles. Applying non-violence principles gives impacts to African American society. Desegregation in public facility and the legalization of voting right for African American society are the impacts of non-violence principles that initiated by King.Keyword: non-violence principles, impacts of non-violence principles, public desegregation,speech.

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Ajao, Toyin, and Cori Wielenga. "Citizen Journalism and Conflict Transformation." Matatu 49, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 467–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04902012.

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Abstract The ubiquitous Internet platform in Africa has given rise to a new set of non-state actors responding to protracted conflicts through the use of new media technology. As a departure from a state-centric approach to addressing conflict in Africa, this interdisciplinary study explores the contribution of the public in responding to armed conflicts through citizen journalism. To unearth non-violent African digital innovations, this research explored the Ushahidi platform, which emerged as a response to Kenya’s 2008 post-election violence. Using a qualitative method, data was gathered through unstructured in-depth interviews. The data was analysed using thematic analysis. The data showed the transformative role the Ushahidi platform played during Kenya’s electoral violence through crisis-mapping, the early warning multi-agent consortium, a constitutional referendum, and election monitoring. Evidence also emerged regarding the pioneer work of Ushahidi in other non-violent technological involvements in addressing crisis in Kenya.

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Kangira, Jairos. "Editorial note." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2020/v1n3a0.

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The themes of colonisation and decolonisation dominate in this issue of JoALLS. The colonisation of African communities by European forces was so inhuman and brutal that it left skeletons of African people littered in affected areas on the continent. The trails of murder, massacre, plunder and displacement of defenceless and innocent Africans by marauding, bloodthirsty colonialists are unsavory, heart-rending and disgusting. The crucial role literature plays in documenting the trials and tribulations of Africans cannot be overemphasized. The historical novel and (auto) biography have always become handy in this regard, although caution should be taken on which perspective they are framed. As you read this issue, you will realise that the words 'Germans' and 'genocide' are what linguists call 'collocates'; in other words, you cannot talk of one of these two words without the other as the Germans' heinous crimes were meant to decimate the Herero and Nama populations of Germany South West Africa, now Namibia. The violence against the indigenous African people was not only frightening but also sickening.

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Pechey, Graham. "'A Complex and Violent Revelation': Epiphanies of Africa in South African Literature." Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies 11, no. 1 (July 2002): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1015549022000009651.

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Issahaku, Paul Alhassan. "Policy suggestions for combating domestic violence in West Africa." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 36, no. 1/2 (March 14, 2016): 66–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-03-2015-0033.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess West African countries’ approach to address the issue of domestic violence (DV) in order to identify limitations and suggest policy measures. The paper situates DV in West Africa in the context of international literature and examines the question: what are the limitations of approaches to combating DV in West Africa and what is the way forward? The paper focusses on Ghana as a case example of efforts at addressing DV in West Africa. This is because Ghana is a pioneer among the very few West African countries that have developed a legislative cum policy framework to combat DV. A critical review of Ghana’s approach provides useful lessons for the way forward on policy against DV in the West Africa subregion. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology adopted consists of a survey of existing literature – theoretical and empirical – on DV in the international and Ghanaian contexts, a critical reflection on Ghana’s DV law, and synthesis of the emerging knowledge combined with familiarity with the context to make policy suggestions. A general review of literature on DV provides background understanding of the phenomenon globally and in the context of West Africa. Then an examination of Ghana’s law against DV helps to identify the limitations of the legislative approach. Finally, the paper makes suggestions on how to combat DV in West Africa at large. Findings – There is a high prevalence of DV in West Africa, particularly violence against women, although men also experience it. Some countries in the subregion, Ghana being an example, have adopted a legislative approach to deal with the problem. This approach criminalizes DV and requires victims or witnesses to report to the police. Perpetrators may be arrested and arraigned before a court and, if found culpable, fined or imprisoned while victims are promised protection and subsistence. The legislative approach is reactionary and cold, requiring reporting of violence even though this is not culturally expedient. The approach also frustrates victims who are willing to report by being cumbersome and costly. Finally, the approach is not built on any notable theory of DV. Research limitations/implications – The findings reported in this paper are based on secondary information. As a result, the analysis and conclusions are limited to what could be drawn from the documents reviewed and the experience of the author. Practical implications – The paper suggests specific measures for combating DV in West Africa. These include setting up a national taskforce on DV to coordinate actions and activities toward ending violence, using traditional, and religious leadership structures to campaign against DV, designing mentoring groups for men and women who are preparing to get into marriage, using social workers instead of the police to support victims of violence, institutionalizing assessment and care for DV victims at the hospital, and setting up funding for DV research. These measures could go a long way in combating DV in West Africa. Originality/value – This critical assessment of the legislative approach to combating DV in West Africa is about the first of its kind and therefore makes an original contribution to the literature. Also, the specific measures suggested in the paper are rare in reviews of its kind and therefore offers something of great value to policy makers and professionals in West Africa.

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Mussi, Francesca. "Space, Place, and Gendered Violence in South African Writing." Contemporary Women's Writing 11, no. 2 (November 19, 2016): 277–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpw042.

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Waltz, Susan. "Making Waves: the Political Impact of Human Rights Groups in North Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies 29, no. 3 (September 1991): 481–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00000616.

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Concern for democratisation, central in the study of comparative poiltics over recent years, has tended to shift attention away from the African continent. North Africa, in particular, has been neglected in this literature, though it has witnessed important liberalising political changes – most notably with the removal from office of Tunisia's President-for-Life Habib Bourguiba, and the dramatic decline of the Frot de libération nationale (F.L.N.) in Algeria following political violence in October 1988.

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Waltz, Susan. "Making Waves: the Political Impact of Human Rights Groups in North Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies 29, no. 3 (September 1991): 481–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00003578.

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Concern for democratisation, central in the study of comparative poiltics over recent years, has tended to shift attention away from the African continent.1 North Africa, in particular, has been neglected in this literature, though it has witnessed important liberalising political changes–most notably with the removal from office of Tunisia's President-for-Life Habib Bourguiba, and the dramatic decline of the Frot de libération nationale (F.L.N.) in Algeria following political violence in October 1988.

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Chadwick, Rachelle. "Ambiguous subjects: Obstetric violence, assemblage and South African birth narratives." Feminism & Psychology 27, no. 4 (February 28, 2017): 489–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353517692607.

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Obstetric violence is gaining recognition as a worldwide problem manifesting in a range of geopolitical contexts. While global public health attention is turning to this issue, there has been a lack of theoretical engagement by feminist psychologists with the phenomenon of obstetric violence. This paper contributes to the literature on obstetric violence via a feminist social constructionist analysis of “marginalized” and low-income South African women’s narratives of giving birth in public sector obstetric contexts. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2012 with 35 black, low-income women living in Cape Town, South Africa, the analysis focuses on obstetric violence as a relational, disciplinary, and productive process that has implications for the construction of women’s subjectivities and agency during childbirth. The findings focus on relational constructions of violence and agency in women’s narratives, including (a) the performance of docility as an act of ambiguous agency and (2) resistant bodies and modes of discipline. Framed within a Foucauldian approach to power and using the concept of assemblage, I argue that obstetric violence needs to be conceptualized as more than isolated acts involving individual perpetrators and victims. Instead, the analysis shows that obstetric violence functions as a mode of discipline embedded in normative relations of class, gender, race, and medical power.

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Penfold, Tom. "A Specific Kind of Violence: Insanity and Identity in Contemporary Brazilian and South African Literature." Journal of Southern African Studies 43, no. 5 (August 2, 2017): 1049–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2017.1356028.

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McGee, Zina, Chelsea Alexander, Khasya Cunningham, Celine Hamilton, and Courtney James. "Assessing the Linkage between Exposure to Violence and Victimization, Coping, and Adjustment among Urban Youth: Findings from a Research Study on Adolescents." Children 6, no. 3 (February 27, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children6030036.

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From examinations of the literature on the influence that exposure to violence and coping strategies have on delinquent behavior and emotional outcomes, this study addresses the association between violent victimization and the moderating effects of coping strategies among 500 African-American adolescents who exhibit both externalizing behaviors such as delinquency and internalizing symptoms, including anxiety and depression. The investigation examines the development of the aforementioned adjustment problems in response to victimization, and the findings indicate a relationship between the specific indices of victimization, including peer violence, and the symptomatology and coping mechanisms utilized by the youth in this study. Suggestions for future research in this area are discussed.

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von Borzyskowski, Inken, and Patrick M. Kuhn. "Dangerously informed: Voter information and pre-electoral violence in Africa." Journal of Peace Research 57, no. 1 (January 2020): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343319885166.

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A considerable literature examines the effect of voter information on candidate strategies and voter–politician interactions in the developing world. The voter information literature argues that information can improve accountability because more informed voters are harder to woo with traditional campaign tools, such as ethnic appeals and vote-buying. However, this literature has largely ignored the reaction of political candidates and thus may reach conclusions that are overly optimistic regarding the impact of information on electoral accountability. We argue that voter information can increase electoral violence in developing countries where politicians face fewer institutional constraints on their campaign tactics. When violence is used as a campaign strategy, more informed electorates are more at risk because they are harder to sway through alternative campaign techniques. Using data from 35 African countries, we show that respondents receiving their news predominantly from newspapers are a good proxy for informed voters because they differ in terms of their political attitudes from respondents consuming no news or receiving it via other channels. Combining the geo-coded survey data with pre-electoral violence event data, we find a robust positive association between newspaper readership and fear of and exposure to campaign violence. This finding contributes to the micro-foundations of election violence and adds a cautionary note for voter information programs.

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Ahmed, Fathima. "Conceptualizing subsistence as a response to capitalist violence against African indigenous women." Agenda 32, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 22–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2018.1544734.

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Salau, Mohammed Bashir. "RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AFRICA: THREE STUDIES ON NIGERIA." Journal of Law and Religion 35, no. 1 (April 2020): 165–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2020.15.

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Until the second half of the twentieth century, the role of religion in Africa was profoundly neglected. There were no university centers devoted to the study of religion in Africa; there was only a handful of scholars who focused primarily on religious studies and most of them were not historians; and there were relatively few serious empirical studies on Christianity, Islam, and African traditional religions. This paucity of rigorous research began to be remedied in the 1960s and by the last decade of the twentieth century, the body of literature on religion in Africa had expanded significantly. The burgeoning research and serious coverage of the role of religion in African societies has initially drawn great impetus from university centers located in the West and in various parts of Africa that were committed to demonstrating that Africa has a rich history even before European contact. Accordingly scholars associated with such university centers have since the 1960s acquired and systematically catalogued private religious manuscripts and written numerous pan-African, regional, national, and local studies on diverse topics including spirit mediumship, witchcraft, African systems of thought, African evangelists and catechists, Mahdism, Pentecostalism, slavery, conversion, African religious diasporas and their impact on host societies, and religion and politics. Although the three works under review here deal with the role of religion in an African context, they mainly contribute to addressing three major questions in the study of religion and politics: How do Islam and other religious orientations shape public support for democracy? What is the primary cause of conflict or religious violence? What strategies should be employed to resolve such conflicts and violence?

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Henderson, C. "Sympathetic Violence: Maria Stewart's Antebellum Vision of African American Resistance." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 52–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlt051.

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Wahutu, J. Siguru. "‘In the case of Africa in general, there is a tendency to exaggerate’: representing mass atrocity in Africa." Media, Culture & Society 39, no. 6 (February 13, 2017): 919–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443717692737.

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Based on an analysis of print media and journalists’ interviews, this article examines the representation of atrocity and mass violence in Africa. It specifically focuses on the atrocities in Darfur and Rwanda and compares African and Western coverage of them. It argues that since representations (just as the knowledge that anchors them) are highly dependent on one’s social location, it is necessary to understand multiple representations of the same atrocity. Although the literature on representation of Africa has been critical of Western representations of Africa, this article argues that including African representations of the same provides for a more nuanced understanding. It uses interview data from Kenya and South Africa, both of which have had peacekeeping engagements in Sudan. Kenya and South Africa also have media fields that are more robust and freer than many other countries in the continent.

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Williams, Oliver J. "Ethnically Sensitive Practice to Enhance Treatment Participation of African American Men who Batter." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 73, no. 10 (December 1992): 588–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104438949207301002.

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Partner violence is as much a problem for the African American community as it is for other racial and ethnic groups. Although the element of race may have an impact on the effectiveness of traditional treatment approaches to African American men who batter, literature on approaches to reduce this problem among African American men is sparse. The author examines how ethnically sensitive approaches combined with traditional methods may influence treatment outcomes in this population.

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Gibson, Kerry. "The Effects of Exposure to Political Violence on Children: Does Violence Beget Violence?" South African Journal of Psychology 23, no. 4 (December 1993): 167–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124639302300402.

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Concerns have been expressed about the effects of years of exposure to political violence on South Africa's children. In particular there are fears that children have been dehumanized and that they believe that violence is an acceptable way of resolving differences. In spite of the common-sense status of this idea there is considerable disagreement about it within the international research literature on the psychological effects of violence. In this article it is argued that much of this disagreement arises out of the lack of clarity about what is meant by the question ‘does violence beget violence?’. The author critically evaluates the different theoretical perspectives within which the question might be posed and their relative usefulness in understanding the effects of political violence in South Africa. It is also argued that the most useful way of understanding the relationship between the experience of violence and subsequent violent behaviour is not in terms of direct causality but rather in terms of the more complex interrelationships between intrapsychic and social factors. In this process the question is shifted out of the prior simplistic form within which it is most often understood and reconstructed within the more sophisticated explanatory paradigm of psychoanalysis.

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Stepteau-Watson, Desiree. "Dating Violence, Young African American Males, and Risk and Protective Factors: A Review of the Literature." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 24, no. 6 (July 30, 2014): 694–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2014.922818.

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Schutte, Sebastian. "Regions at Risk: Predicting Conflict Zones in African Insurgencies." Political Science Research and Methods 5, no. 3 (February 9, 2016): 447–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2015.84.

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A method for predicting conflict zones in civil wars based on point process models is presented in this paper. Instead of testing the validity of specific theoretical conjectures about the determinants of violence in a causal framework, this paper builds on classic literature and a wide body of recent studies to predict conflict zones based on a series of geographic conditions. Using an innovative cross-validation design, the study shows that the quantitative research program on the micro-foundations of violence in civil conflict has crafted generalizable insights permitting out-of-sample predictions of conflict zones. The study region is delimited to ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that experienced full-blown insurgencies in the post-Cold War era.

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Evans, Rebecca. "Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels." American Literature 93, no. 3 (July 26, 2021): 445–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361265.

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Abstract This essay argues that contemporary African American novels turn to the gothic in order to dramatize the uncanny infrastructural and spatial afterlives of the plantation through a literary strategy it identifies as geomemory: a genre friction between mimetic and gothic modes in which postplantation spaces in the US South are imbued with temporal slippages such that past and present meet through the built environment. Tracing the plantation’s environmental and infrastructural presence in the Gulf Coast and throughout the US South, this essay argues that the plantation’s presence is fundamentally gothic. Geomemory, a trope evident across the emerging canon of contemporary African American fiction, allows writers to address the representational challenge of infrastructural and spatial violence via a defamiliarizing chronotope in which past, present, and future come into uneasy contact. Further, geomemory’s particular enmeshment with spatial design and infrastructure means that it moves from identifying the modern afterlife of the plantation to situating the present in the long context of plantation modernity.

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Bhagat, Ali H. "Queer necropolitics of forced migration: Cyclical violence in the African context." Sexualities 23, no. 3 (November 21, 2018): 361–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718797258.

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This article seeks to theorize queer necropolitics—the ability for states to decide who lives and who dies—within the context of forced displacement. In doing so, I link the literature on African sexualities, necropolitics, and queer migration and ask the following questions: How do African states engage in necropolitics that fuel forced displacement for queer people? And, how do forcibly displaced queer migrants navigate and survive in heteronormative spaces within the wider context of racialization in Cape Town? I argue that forcibly displaced queer migrants face ongoing forms of displacement based on various dimensions of ‘non-belonging’ from country-of-origin to relocation.

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Rudakoff, Judith. "Somewhere, Over the Rainbow: White-Female-Canadian Dramaturge in Cape Town." TDR/The Drama Review 48, no. 1 (March 2004): 126–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/105420404772990745.

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In post-apartheid South Africa, economic inequity between the races, street violence, rivalries between the African National Congress and the Inkatha Freedom Party, and the AIDS pandemic continue to vex the nation. In this context, the larger narratives of apartheid and colonialism are joined by personal narratives of individual discovery. The result is theatre that is finding new forms, performance situations, and audiences.

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Temple, Jeff R., Rebecca Weston, and Linda L. Marshall. "Long-Term Mental Health Effects of Partner Violence Patterns and Relationship Termination on Low-Income and Ethnically Diverse Community Women." Partner Abuse 1, no. 4 (October 2010): 379–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1946-6560.1.4.379.

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with psychological distress; however, differences in the impact of unidirectional IPV, typically male dominated, and bidirectional IPV have not been examined. To address this gap in the literature, we compared the effects of various IPV patterns on women’s reports of dissociation, posttraumatic stress disorder, and stress in six interviews over 8 years. We also examined whether differences by IPV pattern existed in women’s mental health on leaving a violent relationship. The 489 low-income women completing all interviews were African American (40%), Euro-American (30%), and Mexican American (30%), over half of whom (58%) were no longer with wave 1 partners by wave 6. In general, worse mental health was associated with relationship termination and bidirectional violence.

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KOUSSOUHON, Léonard, and Fortuné AGBACHI. "Ambivalent Gender Identities in Contemporary African Literature: A Butlerian Perspective." Journal for the Study of English Linguistics 4, no. 1 (June 6, 2016): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsel.v4i1.9558.

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<p>This paper is an attempt to examine the way male and female participants perform gender in 03 novels, <em>Everything Good Will Come</em> (2006), <em>Swallow</em> (2010) and <em>A Bit of Difference</em> (2013), by a contemporary Nigerian writer called Sefi Atta. The study draws on Gender Performative Theory as developed by the feminist Butler (1990/1999). This theory considers gender identities as being socially constructed. The study highlights the multiple ways in which male and female participants perform gender according to established social norms in the selected novels. Regarding the existing social norms in Nigeria, the findings by scholars like Fakeye, George and Owoyemi (2012), Mejiuni and Awolowo (2006), Bourey et al (2012), Gbadebo, Kehinde and Adedeji (2012), Okunola and Ojo (2012) exude that men are traditionally portrayed as career people, assertive, powerful and active, independent and violent while women are stereotypically depicted as housewives, submissive, powerless and passive, dependent and non-violent (or victims). Based on the above dichotomies between men and women, the study unveils the ideology that underpins gender performances in the novels.</p>

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