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Anglophone African Detective Fiction
"The designation “African literature” is an anomaly among geographical classifiers of global textual formations: it is a quasi-national label that, nevertheless, invites a comparative and multilingual critical engagement. To speak of African detective fiction is to address the historical.." – By Ranka Primorac
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Literature and Conversion in the English Renaissance
"Following the Reformation conversion was an inescapable part of English culture. Conversion could refer to a change in religious identity or an intensification of spiritual feeling. The latter was understood..." – By Abigail Shinn
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