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Uses of Literature
The value of literature is minimised in the functioning of society.
Publication
Adjacency, or, Words for Pain
Baderoon, Gabeba. 2024. Adjacency, or, Words for Pain. New England Review, 45(4), 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1353/ner.2024.a948981
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Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African Perspectives
Manase, Irikidzayi and Thabisani Ndlovu. 2022. Pandemic Literatures and Being Human in Times of Mass Infection and Catastrophe: Some African...
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Methodological Work Towards a Contemporary African Ephemeral Literature Archive
The published novel is on the decline across the African continent.
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Metaphors of identity, recognition and connection in the 20th century - cell biology and literature
Every knowledge-based discipline proceeds trough history by coining new terms.
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Text, Human Rights and pandemics: Being human in times of contagion
Partly prompted by and responding to the effects of Covid-19, our project takes a long-shot view of text, contagion, and ideas of the rights-bearing human over time.
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Reimagining the “literary” in South African Literary Studies
Brown, Duncan. 2016. Reimagining the “literary” in South African Literary Studies. English in Africa 43(3):141. http://www.ajol.info/index.p...
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Rethinking South African Literature(s)
This is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project, located in the Faculty of Arts at UWC, which seeks to rethink the ways in which we conceptualise and understand the field of South African literatures, almost three decades after the legislated ending of apartheid, and just over two decades after Michael Chapman’s landmark study, Southern African Literatures (1996), arguably the first (and last) study to engage thoroughly with literatures in all languages in the region.
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States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature
After 9/11 The USA declared war on an emotion.
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Kingfisher Tales
The Greek myth of the European Kingfisher has inspired many poets and writers and left deep traces in European culture.
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101 Detectives
The main project I undertook at STIAS was a collection of short fictions called 101 Detectives.
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Dry Remains – The forensic examination of the moral content of a life
After fifty years of writing plays the forthcoming stay at STIAS will be used to make a second attempt at writing a novel.
