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(Re)writing the black feminist text:a comparative study of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching god and Achmat Dangor's The Z Town trilogy (2007)
Journal Article
Pett, S. (2007). (Re)writing the black feminist text:a comparative study of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching god and Achmat Dangor's The Z Town trilogy. https://doi.org/10.1080/18125440701752016

From Homer's Odyssey to the Arabic folk tale Leila and Majnun, the work of Achmat Dangor repeatedly revises texts from diverse literary traditions. Perhaps the most outstanding but overlooked aspect of Dangor's revisionism is his refiguration of Zora... Read More about (Re)writing the black feminist text:a comparative study of Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching god and Achmat Dangor's The Z Town trilogy.

A quick jaunt or a great trek? Mary Hall's Travels from the Cape to Cairo (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Easton, K. (2006, September). A quick jaunt or a great trek? Mary Hall's Travels from the Cape to Cairo. Paper presented at ASA-UK, SOAS, University of London

The title of Mary Hall's travelogue, A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo (London: Methuen, 1907) suggests an arduous journey by foot by a woman on her own. It also suggests that we will learn something of the Cape and Cairo. But these two key sites... Read More about A quick jaunt or a great trek? Mary Hall's Travels from the Cape to Cairo.

J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal (2006)
Book Chapter
Easton, K. (2006). J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace: Reading Race/Reading Scandal. In J. Morrison, & S. Watkins (Eds.), Scandalous Fictions. The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere (187-205). Palgrave Macmillan

Two South African voices for justice, reconciliation [Review of Desmond Tutu’s No Future without Forgiveness and Ahmed Kathrada’s Letters from Robben Island: A Selection of Ahmed Kathrada’s Prison Correspondence, 1964–1989, edited by Robert D. Vassen] (2000)
Journal Article
Easton, K. (2000). Two South African voices for justice, reconciliation [Review of Desmond Tutu’s No Future without Forgiveness and Ahmed Kathrada’s Letters from Robben Island: A Selection of Ahmed Kathrada’s Prison Correspondence, 1964–1989, edited by Robert D. Vassen]. The Boston globe, N3