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MA and DLitt (English Studies) (Stellenbosch)   DESIGNATION   Emeritus Professor   RESEARCH:   African English Fiction Studies Postcolonial Studies Twentieth-Century English Poetry Shakespeare ...more detail   OTHER:   Member of: the African Literature Association (ALA); the Association for University English Teachers of South Africa (AUETSA); the English Academy of South Africa; the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA); the [South African] Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies ([SA]ACLALS); the South African Association for Literary Theory (SAVAL)   Author of the column "The African Library" published bi-monthly on the electronic journal Litnet (www.litnet.co.za). Referee of manuscript articles for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature; the Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Research in African Literatures; Social Dynamics; English in Africa; English Studies in Africa; Literator; the South African Journal of Higher Education; the English Academy Review; the Journal of Educational Studies; Current Writing; Alternation. Contributing reviewer for Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research and Associate Editor (South African Literature in English) for the Literary Encyclopedia.

PUBLICATIONS  BOOKS Dealing with Evils: Essays on Writing from Africa, a collection of some previously unpublished pieces and some previously published articles by myself (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2008); featured in the series 'Studies in English Literatures', edited by Koray Melikoglu. [254 pp.; ISBN 978-3-89821-867-2] Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa.  Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 2000. [307 pp.; ISBN 0-89410-887-5] ARTICLES IN PEER- REVIEWED JOURNALS "Farah's Sardines: women in a context of despotism." Africa Today 57.3 (2011): 3-20. "Ice-Candy-Man and In the Country of Men: the politics of cruelty and the witnessing child." Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics (SPiL) vol. 39 (2010): 25-39. "Evoking and negotiating the Zimbabwean present in three new texts." [Review essay on Harare North; An Elegy for Easterly; Absent: The English Teacher.] Imbizo 1.1 (2010): 114-123. "'To remember is like starting to see': South African autobiographies in English, 1999-2009." Current Writing 21.1 & 2 (2009): 261-285.   "Writing a life in epistolic form: Bessie Head's Letters." Journal of Literary Studies [JLS] 25.1(2009): 8- 33 [Special guest-edited issue on southern African women's auto- and biographies].   "Buried hurts and colliding dreams in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning." Acta Scientiarum - Arts and Culture 31.1 (2009): 41-52. ISSN 1983-4675 (paper) and 1983-4683 (on-line).   "Reading The Stone Virgins as Vera's Study of the Katabolism of War." Research in African Literatures 38.2 (2007): 64-76. "Surveying the contours of 'a country in exile': Nuruddin Farah's Somalia". African Identities 4.2 (2006): 251-268. "Entering the oppressor's mind as a strategy of writing in Bessie Head's A Question of Power, Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins and Unity Dow's The Screaming of the Innocent." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 41.2 (2006): 43-60. "Getting under the Skin of Power: the novels of Unity Dow". English Academy Review 21 (2004  only published 2005): 74-85. "South African Novelists and the Grand Narrative of Apartheid". Journal of Language and Politics 5.1 (2005): 97-109.  [This Special Issue (on 'Critical Linguistic Perspectives on Coping with Traumatic Pasts in South Africa and Austria') has been published in book form as Discourse and Human Rights Violations, eds Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert, Volume 5 in the Benjamins Current Topics series brought out by the John Benjamins Publishing Company (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: 2007 - ISBN 978-90-272-2235-0), with my chapter appearing on pp.89-100.] "Adapting the National Imaginary: Shifting Identities in Three Post-1994 South African Novels."  Journal of Southern African Studies 30.4 (2004): 811-824. "Marecheran Postmodernism: Mocking the Bad Joke of African Modernity."  Journal of Literary Studies 18.1/2 (2002 - [appeared 2003]): 61-84. "Two bad-time stories and a song of hope."  Literator 23.3 (2002): 161-177. [On Coplan's In the Time of Cannibals, Scholtz's novel A Place Called Vatmaar & Serote's poem Come and Hope with Me.] "Memory, Power and Bessie Head: A Question of Power."  World Literature Written in English 38.1 (1999 - [appeared 2002]): 42-57. " 'Sacred Geography' in Mazisi Kunene's Poetry Collection The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain."  ARTSresearch 3 (2001): 21-34. "Unmasking 'African Machismo': Mphahlele's Chirundu."  English Studies in Africa 44.1 (2001): 31-46. "Concepts of Exile in Marechera's Early Works."  Exile in African Literature [Today] 22 (2000): 1-11. "Patterns of Leadership in Bessie Head's Maru and A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga."  The Atlantic Review 1.1 (2000): 172-190. "'By What Authority?' Presentations of the Khoisan in South African English Poetry."  Alternation 6.1 (1999): 155-173. "Appreciating Nuruddin Farah's Secrets."  The English Academy Review 16 (1999): 91-100. "Anomy and Agony in a Nation in Crisis: Soyinka's Season of Anomy."  English in Africa 26.2 (1999): 125-139. " 'Barbarism' and 'Civilization' in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Marechera's Black Sunlight."  The Literary Griot: International Journal of Black Expressive Culture Studies 10.1 (Spring 1998): 1-15. "A.C. Jordan's Tales from Southern Africa."  Alternation 4.2 (1997): 68-80. "'The tree goes on': Reconsidering Alex la Guma's Time of the Butcherbird."  English in Africa 24.1 (1997): 59-70. "Finding Foundations for Change in Bessie Head's The Cardinals."  The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31.2 (1996): 47-60. " 'I do not know her, but someone ought to know her': Chenjerai Hove's Bones."  World Literature Written in English 32.2 and 33.1 (1992-1993): 33-43. "Serote's Novel and Visser's Criticism."  The English Academy Review 6 (1989): 84-91. "Relationships in The Merchant of Venice."  Theoria LXXI (1988): 61-67.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS "Book-Keeping in Africa" in Mapping Africa in the English-Speaking World: Issues in Language and Literature eds  KC Monaka, OS Seda, SE Ellece & J McAlister. London: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2010. 43-68. ISBN 978-1-4438-2566.   " 'De-Othering' the Perpetrator: An Interview with Annie Gagiano" [Michela Borzaga]in Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South Africa: Interviews. Eds Ewald Mengel, Michela Borzaga, Karen Orantes. Matatu no. 38. Amsterdam /New York: Rodopi, 2010. Pp.187-209.   "African female aspiration in colonial Rhodesia and post-colonial Botswana: affective and oppositional strategies" in Identities in Process: Studies in Comparative Literature, ed. Eduardo Coutinho. Rio de Janeiro, Aeroplano, 2009 [ISBN 978-85-7820-016-9]. 330-338.   "The woman's shout: new accents in African Anglophone fiction" in The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine, eds Bernard de Meyer and Neil ten Kortenaar (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009). 95-106. [ISBN: 9978-90-420-2580-6] "Moving beyond compartmentality: South African English writing from 1999 to 2005." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht [A special issue focusing on recent South African literature, guest edited by Prof. Geoffrey Davis of the English Dept of the University of Aachen, former chair of EACLALS] 39.2/3 (2006 [- appeared September 2008] ): 133-155. "Mourning, betrayal and 'dark epiphanies' in Walking Still" in Charles Mungoshi: A Critical Reader.  Eds T.M. Vambe and M. Chirere. Harare: Prestige Books, 2006 [ISBN 0-7974-3087-3]. 132-145. "Nkosi as Literary Critic" in Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi. Eds Lindy Stiebel and Liz Gunner. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.  5-26. "Southern African Stories of Transgressing Women from Five Cultural Time-Frames" [Khoisan; Xhosa; Zulu; Tswana; Sotho].  In Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures, eds Ruediger Ahrens, Maria Herrera-Sobek, Karin Ikas and Francisco A. Lomeli. Heidelberg [Germany]: Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2005.  285-303. "Using a comic vision to contend with tragedy: three unusual African novels [by Marechera, Mwangi and Farah]". In Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial, eds Susanne Reichl and Mark Stein.  Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 91), 2005.  257-270. "Marechera's wordhorde and the scrapiron of war." In Versions of Zimbabwe: new approaches to literature and culture. Eds Robert Muponde & Ranka Primorac. Harare: Weaver Press, 2005. 41-54. ISBN 1 77922 036 7. My translation ("The Grey Pipit") of one of the Khoisan folktales called Dwaalstories and told in Afrikaans by the Khoisan elder known as "Hendrik", recorded in Afrikaans as "Die Vaal Koestertjie" (first published in 1921 and most recently in 1959, in Afrikaans, in the name of Eugene Marais) was published in The New Century of South African Short Stories, ed. by Michael Chapman Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2004. 40-43. "'Racial' characterisation in the apartheid-period and post-apartheid writings of J.M. Coetzee."  In Under Construction: 'Race' and Identity in South Africa Today.  Eds N. Distiller & M. Steyn.  Sandton: Heinemann, 2004. 38-49. "The sense of exile in the poetry of Arthur Nortje." In Arthur Nortje: Poet and South African.  Eds C. McLuckie & R. Tyner. Pretoria: Unisa, 2004.  125-141. "Schoeman and Slavery: Armosyn van die Kaap. Voorspel tot vestiging 1415-1651."  In Sluiswagter by die Dam van Stemme:Beskouings oor die werk van Karel Schoeman.  Eds W.Burger & H. van Vuuren  Protea: Pretoria, 2002.  107-117.  [An analysis in English of an Afrikaans text.] "The symbolic dimension of Achebe's No Longer at Ease."  In Multiculturalism and Hybridity in African Literatures. Eds Hal Wylie and Bernth Lindfors. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000.  221-233. "Arthur Nortje (1942-1970)."  In Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 225 (South African Writers). Ed. Paul A. Scanlon. Farmington, MI: The Gale Group, 2000.  322-327. "Mongane Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood: Painting the True Colours of Apartheid."  In An Introduction to the African Prose Narrative. Ed. Lokangake Losambe. Pretoria: Kagiso Tertiary, 1996.  122-130. "Encountering African Novels in English."  In Cultural Synergy in South Africa: Weaving Strands of Africa and Europe. Eds Melissa Steyn and K.B. Motshabi. Randburg: Knowledge Resources, 1996.  131-145. "Blixen, Ngugi: Recounting Kenya."  In Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Charles Cantalupo. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1995.  95-110.