Destrooper, Tine, host. “How do we talk about truth in South Africa?” Justice Visions (podcast).2021. https://justicevisions.org/podcast/how-do-we-talk-about-truth-in-south-africa/. In this podcast episode, Tine…
Cavell, Megan. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114, no. 3 (2015): 355–72. This article studies the use of the word ‘FriÞuwebban’ in Old English poetics, which has widely been translated as a word for…
Rizzardi, B. (2019). Le Simplegadi, (19), pp.43–52. The article is an analysis of “Once upon a Time: a Fairy Tale of Suburban Life” by Nadine Gordimer as a peace fairy tale. The book, published under apartheid, aims to…
Moskalenko, Sophia. 2023. Peace Review, February, 1–10. The article discusses how cultural differences expressed in fairy tale narratives are able to illustrate different cultural groups’ behaviour in high-stress (e.g.…
Simpson, Pierce Anne. 2011. In Enlightened War German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz, edited by E Krimmer and P A Simpson, 151–72. Boydell & Brewer. The article centres three…
Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The coming-of-age text, a combination of…
Wells, H. G. In A Modern Utopia, 135-174, 1905 This chapter in H.G. Wells’ 1905 book A Modern Utopia discusses the possible failures in a modern Utopia. The book walks a very thin line between fictional and…
Pitetti, Connor. Science Fiction Studies volume 44, no. 3 (November 2017), pp. 437-454. In this article Connor Pitetti distinguishes between apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novels in science fiction, with the key…
Keen, Richard, McCoy, Monica L., and Powell, Elizabeth. Studies in Popular Culture volume 34, no. 2 (Spring2012), pp. 129-148. This article examines from a psychological and literary perspective why, when we read and…
Luis Borges, Jorge, The New Yorker, Dec 30, 1966 This entry to the library from The New Yorker is a collection of three short works of fiction by the South American author Jorge Luis Borges, with the first two…