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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...

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Published in:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 69 - 79
Main Author: Macura-Nnamdi, Ewa
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 2025
Subjects:
Rose-Innes, Henrietta
Racialization
Hofmann, Daniel
Toxicity testing
Exceptionalism (Political science)
Poison (Short story)
21st century (Literary period)
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