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Trauma Theory and Childhoods in African Fiction
This monograph project intervenes in the timely debate around the ‘decolonisation’ of trauma theory by providing a revised understanding of the theory’s Euro-American foundations primarily dominated by Freudian psychoanalysis and northern scholarship on the issue of difference.
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Double Vision
This project will be a work of creative non-fiction, exploring issues of identity, boundaries, and vision that have been of concern for many years to a scholar who has been both literary critic and biographer.
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Genres of Critique
This project seeks to open and explore a liminal space for critique between aesthetics and politics.
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Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement
Phalafala, Uhuru Portia. 2024. Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement. Boydell & Brewer. https://boydellandbrewer.com/97818...
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The Days Lived in Yellow
How do we come to know what we think we know?
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The Amateur
Majumdar, Saikat. 2024. The Amateur (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/amateur-9781501399879/
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The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK
Gagnier, Regenia. (2023). The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK. Literature Compass, 20(10–12). https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.1275...
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(In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa
Phiri, Aretha. 2021. (In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa. In T. Roynon & M. C. Conner (Eds.), Global Ralph E...
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Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures
Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 316–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/...
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Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature
Simpson, David. 2022. Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature. Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?i...
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The Ludic Impulse: Race Narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light
Phiri, Aretha. 2022. The Ludic Impulse: Race Narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Lig...
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Speaking Animals in African Literature
This project deals with the representation of the narrating animal in present-day African texts written in English, French and Portuguese.
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The whiteness of Afrikaans literary feminism
In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown(2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within the Afrikaans literary sphere.
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Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia)
Ncube, Gibson. 2021. Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy across the Black Diaspora (Keguro Macharia). Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 58(1), 172–174. ...
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Response
Phiri, Aretha. 2021. Response. Interventions, 23(1), 170–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1843518
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African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon
Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN...
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Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World
Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilitie...
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“Human Beings Have a Hard Time Relating to That Which Does Not Resemble Them”: Queering Normativity in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon
Ncube, Gibson. 2020. “Human Beings Have a Hard Time Relating to That Which Does Not Resemble Them”: Queering Normativity in Nnedi Okorafor’s...
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Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature
Brown, Duncan. 2020. Finding My Way: Reflections on South African Literature. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press. https://books.google.co.za...
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Dog from the Other Shore: Dangerous Escapades, Animal Rescue and the Ethnic Other in “Salty Dog,” 1960s to 1970s
Mondry, Henrietta. 2019. Dog from the Other Shore: Dangerous Escapades, Animal Rescue and the Ethnic Other in “Salty Dog,” 1960s to 1970s. S...
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Purple Hibiscus and theme of moderation as a metaphor in the evolution of contemporary Nigerian fiction
Nwankwọ E, Izuu. 2018. Purple Hibiscus and theme of moderation as a metaphor in the evolution of contemporary Nigerian fiction. Internationa...
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“That Man Patton”: The Personal History of a Book
Brown, Duncan. 2019. “That Man Patton”: The Personal History of a Book. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 31(2), 107–1...
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The Story of an Anthology: “Conjunctures in a Disjunctive Society?”
Chapman, Michael. 2019. The Story of an Anthology: “Conjunctures in a Disjunctive Society?” Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern ...
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Role-playing on Stage
Mellor, D. H. (2019). Role-playing on Stage. In C. B. Caddick & E. Bourne (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy ...
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‘Beyond 2000: South African Literature Today’
Michael Chapman (guest editor). 2009. ‘Beyond 2000: South African Literature Today’. Current Writing (Special Issue)
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Coetzee, Gordimer and the Nobel Prize
Michael Chapman. 2009. Coetzee, Gordimer and the Nobel Prize. British and American Studies 15
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The Case of Coetzee: South African Literary Criticism 1990 to Today
Michael Chapman. 2009. The Case of Coetzee: South African Literary Criticism 1990 to Today. Journal of Literary Studies 25
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Reimagining South African Literature
Duncan Brown. 2014. Reimagining South African Literature. Journal of Southern African Studies, 40 (5), 1109-1123
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Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter
Gordon, Lyndall. 2014. Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter. London: Virago Press. http://www.virago.co.uk/divided-lives-dreams-...
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Haunted by Waters
Brown, Duncan. 2015. Haunted by Waters. In Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa, edited by Imraan Coovadia, Cóilín Parsons and Alexa...
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51 Poetas: Antologia Intima
Coetzee, John Maxwell, ed. 2015. 51 Poetas: Antologia Intima. Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna. http://www.elhilodeariadna.org/colecciones/l...
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The Work of Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Attridge, Derek, 2015. The Work of Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wo...
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On First Looking into Godot
Vladislavic, Ivan. 2016. On First Looking into Godot. Thesis Eleven 136(1):31–34. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0725513616667653
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Oral Literature in South Africa: 20 Years On
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Oral Literature in South Africa: 20 Years On. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 28(2):108–18. http...
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Introduction to Special Section on Ivan Vladislavic: Ivan Vladislavic – Writing Sideways
Beilharz, P and S Supski. 2016. Introduction to Special Section on Ivan Vladislavic: Ivan Vladislavic – Writing Sideways. Thesis Eleven 136(...
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Finding Ivan Vladislavic – Writing the City
Beilharz, Peter and Sian Supski. 2016. Finding Ivan Vladislavic – Writing the City. Thesis Eleven 136(1):5–19. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/do...
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Ivan Vladislavic – A Tale in Two Cities
Beilharz, Peter and Sian Supski. 2016. Ivan Vladislavic – A Tale in Two Cities. Thesis Eleven 136(1):20–30. http://the.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/1...
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Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution
Ruse, Michael. 2016. Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.co...
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Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 2017. Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds. Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG. http://langaa-rpci...
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The Aesthetics of Violence
Appelbaum, Robert. 2017. The Aesthetics of Violence. Art, Fiction, Drama and Film. Rowman & Littlefield International. http://www.rowmaninte...
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Re-engaging master narratives: Re-encountering Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Esiaba Irobi’s Sycorax
Nwankwọ E., Izuu. 2018. Re-engaging master narratives: Re-encountering Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Esiaba Irobi’s Sycorax. The Journal of C...
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The triumph of Afrikaans fiction
Attridge, Derek. 2018. The triumph of Afrikaans fiction. Public Books. http://www.publicbooks.org/the-triumph-of-afrikaans-fiction/
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“We are all souls”: Dogs, dog-wo/men and borderlands in Coetzee and Tyulkin
Mondry, Henrietta. 2018. “We are all souls”: Dogs, dog-wo/men and borderlands in Coetzee and Tyulkin. In D. Wylie & J.-M. Barendse (Eds.), D...
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Interrogating Blackness, Locating ‘Africanness’: Call-and-Response in the (literary) works of Toni Morrison and Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Taiye Selasi
This project offers a fresh, comparative, transatlantic and transnational analysis of leading African-American author, Toni Morrison’s, work on blackness through the diasporic lens of contemporary female writers of the African diaspora, Zoë Wicomb, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Taiye Selasi.
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The work and legacy of Sesotho writer Thomas Mofolo
Dunton and Krog are to edit for peer review and publication a set of papers delivered at a conference held in Lesotho on the work of Sesotho writer Thomas Mofolo.
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South African Literature after the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The role of literature is always to speak the truth to power (Nietzsche), and even if it cannot pretend to ameliorate material problems it appears to have impact on the way readers respond to reality and even perhaps behave in the real world.
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Reinstating the "Literary" in South African Literary Studie
South African literary studies has, in a sense, lost its intellectual project.
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Questions of Literature
This project will involve the further exploration of a number of issues treated briefly in the 2004 study ‘The Singularity of Literature’, a short book that examined the distinctive character of literary uses of language, emphasizing the interrelated trinity of inventiveness, singularity and alterity.