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Dr Ralph Goodman BAHons, UED (Natal), MA (UNISA), DLitt (Stellenbosch) DESIGNATION Senior Lecturer TEACHING AREAS Eighteenth-century studies Postmodernity and the post-modern novel Science fiction Cultural studies Gender studies TRC issues History, memory and trauma RESEARCH Post-1994 South African writing Satire, parody, magic realism and fantasy TRC issues History, memory and trauma Space and place Cities Utopian studies Science fiction Cultural studies The mechanics of creation, destruction and recuperation of community : Enlightenment to 9/11 ...more detail  OTHER MA and DLitt Co-ordinator    Chairperson: Postgraduate Committee     Advisory Associate: Ghandi-Tappoo Centre for Writing, Ethics and Peace Studies, University of Fiji. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS   "Ivan Vladislavic's Portrait with Keys: A Bricoleur's Guide to Johannesburg: Safundi. 10.2 (2009) : 223 - 230   "The Man, the Woman and the Whale: Exploring the Politics of the Possible in Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller". Current Writing 20.1 (2008) : 105 - 118.   "History, Memory and Reconciliation: Njabulo Ndebele's Cry of Winnie Mandela and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela's  A Human Being Died that  Night". Literator 27.2 Aug (2006) : 1-20.    "Vladislavic's The Exploded View: Space and Place in Transitional South Africa", Scrutiny 2 11.2 (2006) : 36-47.    "Privilege, Loss and Gain in Utopian Spaces." English Studies in Africa 48.1 (2005) : 19-27.    "De-scribing the Centre: Satiric and Postcolonial Strategies in The Madonna of Excelsior." Journal of Literary Studies 20.1 (2004) : 62-70.   "Textuality and Transformation in South African Parodic-Travestying Texts:Welcome to Our Hillbrow." English Academy Review. 20 (December 2003):88-97.    "Problematics of Utopian Discourse: The Trim Garden and the Untidy Wilderness." English Studies in Africa 46.1 (2003) : 1-13.   " Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating: Three Satires by Zakes Mda".  South African Theatre Journal 16 (2002) : 241-243.   CHAPTERS IN BOOKS   "Race, Satire and Postcolonial Issues in Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior. Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda. Eds. David Bell and Johan Jacobs. Scottstown: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009. 299 - 313.