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"Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38 (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2009, September). "Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38. Paper presented at Locating African Culture, University of Stirling

This chapter considers how we might locate ‘Africa’ or ‘African Culture’ in the letters Lady Margaret Herschel wrote from the Cape of Good Hope between 1834 and 1838. In her four-year residency with her famous astronomer husband, Sir John Herschel,... Read More about "Out of Africa": Lady Margaret Herschel's Letters from the Cape, 1834-38.

Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi (2009)
Book Chapter
McCain, C. (2009). Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi. In T. Falola, & F. Ngom (Eds.), Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations (163-189). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203872659-19

In recent years, the focus on public morals versus private practice has been a major concern of Hausa artists in investigating exactly what the private/ public division means for Hausa modernity. After a background on the emergence of these new forms... Read More about Reimagining Gender Spaces in Abbas Sadiq and Zainab Idris's video-film Albashi.

Gender, Travel, Cape: British Women Writing Colonial South Africa, 1797-1931 (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2009, April). Gender, Travel, Cape: British Women Writing Colonial South Africa, 1797-1931. Paper presented at Dept of English seminar series, University of Stellenbosch, Dept of English

Alan Lester and Elleke Boehmer have both written on imperial networks, but what happens when our case studies are linked across history, generationally and by gender – regionally rather than globally? To move on from Sara Mills’s substantial and inf... Read More about Gender, Travel, Cape: British Women Writing Colonial South Africa, 1797-1931.

Bahaa' Taher (1935-) (2009)
Book Chapter
El-Desouky, A. (2009). Bahaa' Taher (1935-). In M. Y. Al-Mallah, & C. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 346: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers (252-257). Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc

Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-) (2009)
Book Chapter
El-Desouky, A. (2009). Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-). In M. Y. Al-Mallah, & C. Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 346: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers (58-68). Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc