Roundtable review: cold case: the elusive story of Julie Ward's murder
- Authors: Spencer, Lynda G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138894 , vital:37683 , https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2017.1362199
- Description: A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder by Grace Ahingila Musila is an extraordinary, captivating, thought-provoking and chilling account of the unsolved murder of Julie Ward. Musila points out that this book does not set out to reveal who murdered Julie Ward. Instead, as an academic, she is interested in examining the intertextual process between the rumours around this cold case and the evidence available in various published accounts, such as books, newspapers and court judgements.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Spencer, Lynda G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138894 , vital:37683 , https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2017.1362199
- Description: A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder by Grace Ahingila Musila is an extraordinary, captivating, thought-provoking and chilling account of the unsolved murder of Julie Ward. Musila points out that this book does not set out to reveal who murdered Julie Ward. Instead, as an academic, she is interested in examining the intertextual process between the rumours around this cold case and the evidence available in various published accounts, such as books, newspapers and court judgements.
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- Date Issued: 2017
“Not the story you wanted to hear": reading chick-lit in JM Coetzee’s Summertime
- Moonsamy, Nedine, Spencer, Lynda G
- Authors: Moonsamy, Nedine , Spencer, Lynda G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138915 , vital:37685 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2017.1390878
- Description: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime has been widely explored – both for its controversy and merits – as engaging in “acts of genre” where the inscription of an autobiographical narrative simultaneously serves as a metatextual and ideological critique of its form. Similarly, this article is intrigued by generic instability, but our terrain lies further afield, exploring how the narrative lapses from the lofty ideals of romance to the baser “truth” of chick-lit. In Summertime, all the female characters besmirch Mr. Vincent, the biographer, for wanting to cast John Coetzee in the role of a romantic hero. Yet, their resistance results in a series of romantic failures which then situates Summertime in the generic ambit of chick-lit. In embodying a spirit that is as playful as it is critical, we suggest that Coetzee offers an opportunity to cast aside a literary critical tradition of suspicion and, in doing so, passes critical comment on how we approach a popular genre like chick-lit.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Moonsamy, Nedine , Spencer, Lynda G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138915 , vital:37685 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2017.1390878
- Description: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime has been widely explored – both for its controversy and merits – as engaging in “acts of genre” where the inscription of an autobiographical narrative simultaneously serves as a metatextual and ideological critique of its form. Similarly, this article is intrigued by generic instability, but our terrain lies further afield, exploring how the narrative lapses from the lofty ideals of romance to the baser “truth” of chick-lit. In Summertime, all the female characters besmirch Mr. Vincent, the biographer, for wanting to cast John Coetzee in the role of a romantic hero. Yet, their resistance results in a series of romantic failures which then situates Summertime in the generic ambit of chick-lit. In embodying a spirit that is as playful as it is critical, we suggest that Coetzee offers an opportunity to cast aside a literary critical tradition of suspicion and, in doing so, passes critical comment on how we approach a popular genre like chick-lit.
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- Date Issued: 2017
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