Toxic mobilities and the politics of unending in Henrietta Rose-Innes's "Poison".
The few readings of Henrietta Rose-Innes's short story "Poison" have so far focused on how it critiques the racial politics of eco-apocalypse and the ways narratives of the end are inflected by the privilege of whiteness. In this paper, I take a different approach, examining the eponymous poison and...
| Publicado en: | Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 69 - 79 |
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