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Brusky, Sarah. "The Travels of William and Ellen Craft: Race and Travel Literature in the 19th Century." Prospects 25 (October 2000): 177–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000636.

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Describing their move north in an escape from slavery, William and Ellen Craft's slave narrative, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860), offers a peculiar form of travel literature. The notion that slave narratives chronicle movement has not gone unrecognized. Indeed, scholarship on 20th-century African-American literature often argues the thematic importance of a journey motif that some trace to antebellum America. Blyden Jackson, for example, notes that African-American “literature bears within itself content, as well as themes and moods, reflecting the Great Migration” (xv), the perio

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Traoré, Moussa. "An Ecocritical Reading of Selected African Poems." KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts 1, no. 1 (2019): 74–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/jla.v1i1.87.

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This paper discusses some ecocritical ideas in selected poems by Kofi Awoonor, Kofi Anyidoho and the Negritude poets David Diop and Birago Diop. Drawing on postcolonial ecocriticism theory the paper focuses on ecocritical symbolisms and their ramifications in order to show how African poets attend to the environment, community and modernity’s many flaws. The consideration of the Negritude poems in this study stems from the fact that Negritude Literature in general and the selected poems in particular have been examined mainly within the context of Black African identity and the antiracist effo

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Leite, Ana Cristina Lima, José Wanderlan Pontes Espíndola, Marcos Veríssimo de Oliveira Cardoso, and Gevanio Bezerra de Oliveira Filho. "Privileged Structures in the Design of Potential Drug Candidates for Neglected Diseases." Current Medicinal Chemistry 26, no. 23 (2019): 4323–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0929867324666171023163752.

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Background: Privileged motifs are recurring in a wide range of biologically active compounds that reach different pharmaceutical targets and pathways and could represent a suitable start point to access potential candidates in the neglected diseases field. The current therapies to treat these diseases are based in drugs that lack of the desired effectiveness, affordable methods of synthesis and allow a way to emergence of resistant strains. Due the lack of financial return, only few pharmaceutical companies have been investing in research for new therapeutics for neglected diseases (ND). Metho

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Mohamad Morni, Asrul Asshadi, Mohd Azhar Samin, and Rafeah Legino. "Floral Motifs Design on Sarawak Traditional Malay Songket." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 6, SI4 (2021): 63–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6isi4.2902.

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This study is partly an ongoing project to identify the floral motifs design on Sarawak traditional Malay songket. This project begins with a review of related literature that provides an example of textile—also supported with visual data on Sarawak traditional Malay songket gathered from the field visit, which is captured into the digital compilation. The identification process defined that the Sarawak traditional Malay songket motifs mainly develop from various floral sources reflecting and inspiring nature. This study shared different design Malay songket motifs in Sarawak and represent the

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Adegoju, Adeyemi. "Autobiographical Memory, Identity Re/Construction, and Stylistic Creativity in Tayo Olafioye's." Matatu 40, no. 1 (2012): 123–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001008.

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This essay attempts a deconstructive reading of Tayo Olafioye's by stylistically analysing the autobiographer's linguistic inventiveness in evoking memories that revolve around the culture of naming in Africa vis-à-vis the protagonist's identity, which inexorably raises socio-cultural and philosophical issues about the fe/male figure in a typical African society. Further, the essay interrogates the autobiographer's invocation of the archetypal maternal figure in Africa as epitomized by his grand/mother's apprehensions about his well-being and prospects, on the one hand, and his mother's strugg

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Valdés Sánchez, Amanda. "“A Desora Desperto y vio una Grand Claridat”: The Role of Dreams and Light in the Construction of a Multi-Confessional Audience of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe." Religions 10, no. 12 (2019): 652. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10120652.

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This paper examines the religious proselytizing agenda of the order of Saint Jerome that ruled the Extremaduran sanctuary of the Virgin of Guadalupe since 1389. To this end, I analyze how the Hieronymite’s used literary motifs such as dreams and light in the codex of the Miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe to create a multi-confessional audience for their collection of miracles. I contend that these motifs were chosen because they were key elements in the construction of a particular image of the Virgin that could appeal to pilgrims of different faiths. Through them, the Hieronymites evoked in

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Czerwiński, Grzegorz. "Polish Tartar Travel Writing in the Interwar Period: Themes, Motifs, Narrative Strategies." Ruch Literacki 57, no. 6 (2016): 681–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ruch-2017-0094.

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Summary The article analyzes Polish Tartar travel writing in the interwar period, i.e. Mustafa Aleksandrowicz’s, Leon Kryczyński’s, Edige Szynkiewicz’s and Ali Ismail Woronowicz’s (all of them Polish Muslims) accounts of their journeys to North Africa (Morocco, Egypt) and the Middle East (Persia). The analysis shows that the themes and narrative strategies of their work differ in many ways from those of mainstream contemporary Polish literature and journalism. Most importantly, the Tartar authors saw the Islamic countries through Muslim eyes. This perspective also determined their interests (t

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Alonso-Recarte, Claudia. "“They Stood like Men”: Horses, Myth, and Carnophallogocentrism in Toni Morrison’s Home." MELUS 46, no. 2 (2021): 87–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlab019.

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Abstract Toni Morrison’s fiction has frequently attracted critical attention on account of her strategic use of myth (whether classical or Afrocentric) and symbols. This paper examines the role that horses have, as rhetorical constructs, in strengthening the mythical and symbolic unity of her tenth novel Home (2012). Horses have figured widely in the articulation of African American history and letters, often serving as symbols of the abused slaves upon whose bodies the equipment and instruments of oppression and bondage were violently placed. Within Morrison’s cornucopia of animal imagery, th

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Bourgeus, Camille, and Yves T'Sjoen. "Breyten Breytenbachs poëzie in Raster." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 2 (2017): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.54i2.435.

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From 1969 until 1972 the South-African writer and graphic artist Breyten Breytenbach published 29 poems, prose texts and three drawings in the Dutch experimental periodical Raster (first edition: 1967). H. C. ten Berge, writer, poet and Raster's main editor, attributed Breytenbach an unusually prominentÂ position in his magazine. In the Dutch language area of the late sixties and early seventies, Breytenbach was mostly known for his political engagement within the anti-apartheid movement. Ten Berge, however, also praised his work for its formal and experimental aesthetic qualities. According t

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Carroll, Rachel. "Black Victorians, British television drama, and the 1978 adaptation of David Garnett’s The Sailor’s Return." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 2 (2017): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416687350.

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The under-representation of Black British history in British film and television drama has attracted significant public debate in recent years. In this context, this article revisits a critically overlooked British film adaptation featuring a woman of African origin as a protagonist in a drama set in Victorian England. The Sailor’s Return (1978), directed by Jack Gold, is an adaptation of a historical fiction written by David Garnett and first published in 1925. This article aims to situate the novel and its adaptation in three important contexts: set in rural Dorset in 1858, the narrative can

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Van Coller, H. P. "'n Boer in beton: "Hierdie huis" deur Kleinboer." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 2 (2018): 148–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i2.4766.

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This review article is an attempt to interpret and evaluate the novel Hierdie huis within a specific context, namely that of urban writing. This is done first and foremost with reference to Afrikaans literature, but also in a wider context with reference to English South African literature (e.g. Ivan Vladislavic) and to relevant theories like that of the city dweller (flâneur) in the critical writings of Walter Benjamin. In recent Dutch literature several novels have been published (amongst others by Marc Reugebrink and Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer) that share certain motifs and strategies with Klei

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Muvuti, Shelton. "Revisiting trauma and homo religiosus in selected texts by Mongo Beti and Véronique Tadjo." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 1 (2018): 28–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.1582.

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This paper locates religion within the literary narratives of traumatogenic experiences such as war and genocide as depicted in the novels The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti and Véronique Tadjo's The Shadows of Imana: Travels in the Heart of Rwanda. In spite of evident reference to the role played by religion in traumatic and traumatising encounters, it features simply as a footnote to the ethnic tensions that underpin these encounters. Drawing on the theoretical work of Kurtz (2014) and other scholars as well as casting a glance at anticolonial and postcolonial Francophone literatures, th

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Hu, Xiaoran. "Writing against innocence: Entangled temporality, black subjectivity, andDrumwriters revisited." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 2 (2018): 277–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418766664.

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This article examines the representation of time in narratives of childhood experience in Es’kia Mphahlele’s Down Second Avenue (1959) and Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History (1963). These two autobiographies are among the most widely-known works by the group of South African writers who have been loosely associated with Drum magazine in the 1950s. Originating from the early years of the anti-apartheid struggle and resonating widely with the heightened anticolonial resistance movements across the continent, writings by the so-called Drum writers, many of whom later went into exile, have often

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El-Shamy, Hasan M. "Twins/Zwillinge: A Broader View. A Contribution to Stith Thompson’s Incomplete Motif System—A Case of the Continuation of Pseudoscientific Fallacies †." Humanities 10, no. 1 (2020): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10010008.

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Explaining the rationale and main objectives for his motif system; Stith Thompson declared that it emulates what “the scientists have done with the worldwide phenomena of biology” (Thompson 1955, I, p. 10). In this respect; the underlying principles for motif identification and indexing are comparable to those devised by anthropologists at Yale for “categorizing” culture materials into 78 macro-units and 629 subdivisions thereof used to establish “The Human Relations Area Files” (HRAF). By comparison, 23 divisions (chapters) make up the spectrum of sociocultural materials covered in Thompson’s

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Lombard, M., and H. Viljoen. "Die verdonkerende spieël: Simbolistiese trekke in Wilma Stockenstrom se eerste drie bundels." Literator 14, no. 3 (1993): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v14i3.709.

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This article is an attempt to relate the first three of Wilma Stockenstrom's collections of poetry to international Symbolism. First we discuss possible links between her work and Symbolism. The mam emphasis then falls on Stockenstrom’s method of Symbolism, the possible symbolist tone of her work and prominent symbolist motifs in her work. Finally we consider some manifestations of the symbolist oilier world in these collections. The conclusion arrived at is that Stockenstrom's earlier work shows many of the main characteristics of Symbolism so that her work can be regarded as a continuation o

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Saayman, C. "’n Teologie van teerheid - die alternatiewe kerk in Heinrich Böll se roman Gruppenbild mit Dame." Literator 16, no. 2 (1995): 157–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v16i2.628.

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A theology of tenderness - the counterchurch in Heinrich Böll's novel Gruppenbild mit DameHeinrich Böll's novel Gruppenbild mit Dame is a protest against a dehumanized German society - a society which, according to him, is solely committed to production and consumption. In the novel the way in which a certain group of people live is portrayed - a depiction forming a stark contrast with society and its corrupt values. In the novel this small group of people is positioned around the main character, Leni Pfeiffer. Boll could never rid himself of his Christian heritage - thus religious motifs are

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Zamora, Lois Parkinson. "New World Baroque, Neobaroque, Brut Barroco: Latin American Postcolonialisms." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 1 (2009): 127–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.1.127.

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During the seventeenth century, the Baroque was exported wholesale to the areas of the world being colonized by Catholic Europe. It is one of the few satisfying ironies of European imperial domination worldwide that the baroque worked poorly as a colonizing instrument. Its visual and verbal forms are ample, dynamic, porous, and permeable, and in all areas colonized by Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the baroque was itself eventually colonized. In the New World, its transplants immediately began to incorporate the cultural perspectives and iconographies of the indigenous

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Awhefeada, Sunny. "Motherhood and Sundry Preoccupations in Hope Eghagha's." Matatu 40, no. 1 (2012): 81–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001006.

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A significant motif in African poetry which critics have ignored over the years is that of motherhood. This theme has been explored by many an African writer, depicting its various manifestations – physically, psychologically, and spiritually. However, the metaphoric aggregation of the many aspects of maternity has not been met with the appropriate critical response. The aim of this study is to examine the foregrounding of motherhood in Hope Eghagha's . What is revealed is not a romanticization of motherhood, but a tear-glazed threnodic articulation of a mother's last moments on earth, though

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Kerrigan, John. "Lampedusa: Migrant Tragedy." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 8, no. 2 (2021): 138–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2020.41.

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Tragedies about the suffering of migrants are not a new phenomenon. So this article quickly turns to texts from classical antiquity by Aeschylus and Euripides. It focuses, however, on poetry written over the last decade. Following the routes taken by asylum seekers from Africa and Asia through such transit points as Lampedusa and across Europe to Calais, it looks at depictions of the suffering associated with travel, disaster, and problematic arrival, and at the interaction in tragic writing between old motifs and conventions (tragedy as understood by Aristotle or Hegel) and current issues and

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Prins, M. J. "Ons wag op die kaptein (Elsa Joubert): Bybel en Christendom as intertekste." Literator 14, no. 2 (1993): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v14i2.700.

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The Bible and Christianity are the most important intertexts in the novels of Elsa Joubert. The purpose of this article is to examine the part played by these intertexts in Ons wag op die kaptein. To this end the relationship between certain passages of Scripture as well as some basic beliefs of Christianity and aspects of the novel are examined: the theme, Ana-Paula's attitude towards the people of Africa as well as to her white subordinates, Carlos' treatment of his labourers, the significance of the arrival of the ‘captain' and the reconciliation which takes place during the very last momen

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Oriaku, Remy. "J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace as an Allegory of the Pain, Frustration, and Disorder of Post-Apartheid South Africa." Matatu 48, no. 1 (2016): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04801010.

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In J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace (1999), David Lurie, an embodiment of the unrepentant Afrikaner, his predatory masculinist ways recalling the overbearing and highhanded culture of the apartheid era, is shown as both perpetrator and victim. His daughter Lucy transcends her victim status; carrying in her the post-rape seed of the multiracial entity birthed by the post-apartheid arrangement, she is, unlike her father, prepared to make concessions and undertake the compromise and accommodation that are essential in the new South Africa. By the end of the novel, however, Lurie, too, has, at least

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Conrad, David C. "Islam in the Oral Traditions of Mali: Bilali and Surakata." Journal of African History 26, no. 1 (1985): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700023070.

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As a study of some Islamic factors involved in the construction of oral narrative by Manding bards, this article is chiefly concerned with two distinct cases in which griots have borrowed important legendary figures from the literature of Arabia. It is found that Bilali, described by traditional genealogists as progenitor of the ancient ruling branch of the Keita lineage, originated as Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ, a companion of Muhammad and the first mu'adhdhin. Genealogies or descent lists of early Malian rulers still contain names that have apparently survived from pre-Islamic times, but in most instan

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Mcguckin, John Anthony. "Martyr Devotion in the Alexandrian School: Origen to Athanasius." Studies in Church History 30 (1993): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s042420840001158x.

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The Christian interpretation of fatal persecution was a complex one with distinct ecclesial themes merging with Jewish elements from apocalyptic and biblical literature, as well as Hellenistic motifs such as the constancy of the Socratic martyr. The New Testament understanding of the term ‘martyr’ is predominantly that of legal witness, although some specific senses of blood-witness are emerging already in the first century and have become common by the second. Varying reactions can be traced in the literature of different parts of the Church: for example, in Rome, Alexandria, Asia, Africa, or

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Honzl, Jiří. "African Motifs in Greek Vase Painting." Annals of the Náprstek Museum 38, no. 1 (2017): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/anpm-2017-0017.

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In the beginning the paper concisely summarises contacts of Greeks with Egypt, focusing on their interests on the North African coast, up until the Classical Period. The brief description of Greek literary reception of Egypt during the same timeframe is following. The main part of the paper is dedicated to various African (and supposedly African) motifs depicted in Greek vase painting. These are commented upon and put in the relevant context. In the end the individual findings are summarised and confronted with the literary image described above.

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MBURE, SAM. "African Children’s Literature or Literature for African Children?" Matatu 17-18, no. 1 (1997): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000211.

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Kur, Malith. "African Christian Inculturation Project: Theological Motifs of Liberation and Decolonization." Journal of the Council for Research on Religion 2, no. 2 (2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/jcreor.v2i2.47.

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This paper discusses the African Christian theology of inculturation. The theology of inculturation – the African indigenization of Christianity – is one of the African theological movements advocating for the liberation and decolonization of African religious, cultural, and political thought. It is a theological motif that emerged from the African experience of suffering and political and cultural denigration under European colonialism. This paper argues that the African theology of inculturation is a theological outlook that addresses African political, spiritual, and social conditions in th

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Kur, Malith. "African Christian Inculturation Project: Theological Motifs of Liberation and Decolonization." Journal of the Council for Research on Religion 2, no. 2 (2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/jcreor.v2i2.52.

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This paper discusses the African Christian theology of inculturation. The theology of inculturation – the African indigenization of Christianity – is one of the African theological movements advocating for the liberation and decolonization of African religious, cultural, and political thought. It is a theological motif that emerged from the African experience of suffering and political and cultural denigration under European colonialism. This paper argues that the African theology of inculturation is a theological outlook that addresses African political, spiritual, and social conditions in th

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Fleming, Robert E., R. Baxter Miller, and Henry Louis Gates. "African and African American Literature." PMLA 105, no. 5 (1990): 1123. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/462739.

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Aji, Aron, Chidi Ikonne, Emelia Oko, et al. "African Literature and African Historical Experiences." African Studies Review 38, no. 1 (1995): 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525487.

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Florence Marfo. "African Muslims in African American Literature." Callaloo 32, no. 4 (2009): 1213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.0.0567.

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Miller, R. Baxter. "African and African American Literature - Reply." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 105, no. 5 (1990): 1124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900176540.

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Njoku, Basil. "Reviewing African Literature." World Literature Today 78, no. 2 (2004): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40158419.

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Chimombo, Steve. "Learning African literature." Wasafiri 3, no. 6-7 (1987): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690058708574143.

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Boluwaduro, Eniola. "Remapping African Literature." Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 6, no. 2 (2020): 151–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2020.1719008.

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Steyn, Gert J. "THE MACCABEAN LITERATURE AND HEBREWS: SOME INTERTEXTUAL OBSERVATIONS." Journal for Semitics 24, no. 1 (2017): 271–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3448.

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Several common motifs and linguistic similarities between the books of the Maccabees and the book of Hebrews were noted in the past by scholars in random remarks and ad hoc statements. These relations and similarities deserve further investigation. It is therefore the intention of this paper to compare the Maccabean literature and Hebrews with each other in order to present a brief synopsis of a few selected motifs. Some prominent common motifs that will receive attention include the Abrahamic promise and the Aqedah, priests with royal functions, faith heroes and endurance, instruction of the

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Agthe, Johanna. "Religion in Contemporary East African Art." Journal of Religion in Africa 24, no. 1-4 (1994): 375–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006694x00219.

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AbstractThis article describes three aspects of religious art in East Africa: firstly it examines the artists' personal attitude to and motivation by the Christian religion; secondly, it looks at Christian and Bible subjects in their paintings; and lastly it considers traditional religion and the newer independent churches as motifs. It draws on interviews with artists, their works in the collection of the Frankfurt Museum für Völkerkunde and a recent unpublished diploma study by Alois Krammer. 1

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Chukwumah, Ignatius. "African Literary Topoi in Modern African Texts and the Problematics of Europhone Forms." Romanian Journal of English Studies 10, no. 1 (2013): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0001.

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Abstract This article treats selected oral poems whose topoi or motifs have transcended time and space to play out themselves in modern African fictions where colonial languages and their consequent habits of thought serve as media of enunciation. Thereafter, it beams attention on African scholars and writers who have attempted, presumably, to translate the oral medium of expression into indigenous and/or colonial written form(s) while maintaining the navel-strings that linked them, through the transfer of topoi and from the local and indigenous language to the Europhone form which, though, ha

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Ibitokun, Benedict M. "African Literature, African Critics (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 35, no. 2 (1989): 391–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0632.

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Paasche, Karin Ilona. "The Linguistics of Literature in Education: African Literature in African Universities." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 9 (2017): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjhss.v2i9.1086.

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Eke, Maureen N. "(Re) Considering Home, African Literature, and the African Literature Association (ALA)." Journal of the African Literature Association 2, no. 2 (2008): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2008.11690075.

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Campbell, Gordon, and C. A. Patrides. "Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature." Modern Language Review 81, no. 2 (1986): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3729722.

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Daemmrich, Horst S. "Themes and Motifs in Literature: Approaches: Trends: Definition." German Quarterly 58, no. 4 (1985): 566. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/406945.

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Warnke, Martin, and Richard George Elliott. "Ideological Motifs in Popular Literature of Art History." Art in Translation 6, no. 2 (2014): 181–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175613114x13998876655176.

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Lemly, John, Peter Limb, Jean-Marie Volet, C. Brian Cox, Douglas Killam, and Ruth Rowe. "Companions to African Literature." African Studies Review 44, no. 2 (2001): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525587.

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Taylor, Richard, and Georg M. Gugelberger. "Marxism and African Literature." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 2 (1987): 310. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219846.

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Cooper, Brenda, and Georg M. Gugelberger. "Marxism and African Literature." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 1 (1987): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219283.

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Smith, Angela, and Albert Gerard. "Contexts of African Literature." Modern Language Review 87, no. 4 (1992): 960. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731471.

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Bush, Glen, and Dubem Okafor. "Meditations on African Literature." African Studies Review 46, no. 2 (2003): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1514865.

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Mcluskie, Kathleen, and Lynn Innes. "Women and African literature." Wasafiri 4, no. 8 (1988): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690058808574158.

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