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0000-0002-5070-1046
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University of Adelaide
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Literary Studies | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature | Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
Understanding Australia's Past | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing | Languages and Literature |
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-08-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2014
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 06-06-2012
Abstract: This article traces an epistolary exchange between South Africa and India that was animated by the circulation of print media and literary texts. The exchange – between the South African archivist, poet and social historian MK Jeffreys and the Indian statesmen and scholars VS Srinivasa Sastri and P Kodanda Rao – is read as forming part of a larger web of personal and political relations and textual traffic that contributed to the production of Indian Ocean public spheres. Through engagement with this particular case study, the article seeks to contribute to the scholarly turn from explorations of relations between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ or along a North-South axis toward elaborating those engaging South-South connections within the Indian Ocean arena.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 12-01-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-07-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 04-2019
Abstract: This essay proposes the category of the oceanic South. It presents the Southern Hemisphere’s blue expanses as one of its defining features and elaborates from this a framework that brings into agitated contention the extractive economies of the North, the persistent legacies of settler colonialism in the South, and other interlocking human and more-than-human itineraries. Tracking a drift into the Southern Ocean in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, the essay takes this “most neglected of oceans” as a vantage point from which to draw the contours of the oceanic South and engage its troubled surfaces and lively depths. Thinking through the roiling and hostile, fecund, and unbounded nature of this ocean, the essay follows “the lives of whales” in novels by Witi Ihimaera and Zakes Mda. Sounding the ocean’s imaginative depths, these fictions offer illuminating ways of thinking the South while maintaining an unsettling planetarity.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
Publisher: Flinders University Library
Date: 29-07-2019
DOI: 10.22356/WIC.V6I2.51
Abstract: In early 2019, I was delighted to be invited to do a question and answer session with my friend and colleague Elleke Boehmer about her new book The Shouting in the Dark and Other Southern Writing, recently published by University of Western Australia Press. The conversation took place in the congenial common room in the Napier Building in the English Department at Adelaide University, South Australia. What follows is an edited transcript of the discussion, including the introduction by Dr Meg Samuelson of Adelaide University, and the audience questions towards the end.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-12-2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444337822.WBETCFV3V003
Abstract: Yvonne Vera is the most prolific and provocative black woman writer to have emerged from Zimbabwe. Her prose is evocatively lyrical, transfusing the ethical concerns of her writing into a nuanced, associative aesthetics. Vera's fiction delves into the marrow of women's embodied experiences, re‐evaluating national history through a prism that refracts both stunning beauty and excruciating pain. Within the context of Zimbabwean literature, her oeuvre can best be situated alongside Dambudzo Marechera's, in its formal experimentation and its unflinching airing of social taboos, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions , in its focus on the inner lives of women on the margins of war. Vera, who once said “I would like to be remembered as a writer who had no fear of words and who had an intense love of her nation” (Mutandwa 2002), received numerous accolades – including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Africa and the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa – and in 2002 her novel Butterfly Burning (1998) was listed among “Africa's Best 100 Books of the Twentieth Century.”
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2021
Abstract: J.M. Coetzee has unquestionably achieved the status of ‘international author’ within dominant conceptions of world literature: his works circulate widely in both English and translation and have been legitimated by the principal arbitrators of the global cultural industry. He has, however, recently positioned himself as ‘an international author, but in a different sense’ that is, as a writer whose internationalism is achieved through his location in ‘the South’. This article considers how Coetzee’s narratives thematize being ‘international’ in this ‘different sense’. It focuses on the pivotal works of Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life (2002) and the opening chapters of Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) while tracking an orientation southward across his oeuvre in allusions to Joseph Conrad, Jorge Luis Borges and, in particular, Pablo Neruda as well as in Coetzee’s repeated turn to littoral settings. These settings open to what the article describes as the ‘blue southern hemisphere’, implicating narrative world-making in the geophysical properties and ‘troubled histories’ that constitute the South and recasting the act of writing from ‘the far edges’ into a planetary perspective that contends with the uncanny nature of settler societies in the southern temperate zone.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG
Date: 2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 08-12-2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 03-2017
Abstract: This essay makes a case for the categories of littoral literature and coastal form through which it aims to take up the expansive possibilities of the maritime turn while keeping both the materiality of the ocean and the locality of the shore in sight. It elaborates the notion of coastal form through a focus on the African Indian Ocean littoral and with reference to the oeuvres of Mia Couto and Abdulrazak Gurnah. Both are shown to muddle the inside-outside binary that delineates nations and continents, and which has been particularly stark in framing Africa in both imperial and nativist thought. At the same time, coastal form is found to decenter, extend, and thicken constructions of world literature, while opening to a planetary perspective sensible to the prodigious and implacable forces of the Anthropocene.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 08-12-2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2013
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2000
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 30-04-2020
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 06-2007
DOI: 10.1086/512491
Publisher: African Journals Online (AJOL)
Date: 09-12-2016
DOI: 10.4314/EIA.V43I3.7
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2012
Abstract: This article traces the cosmopolitan structures Amitav Ghosh retrieves from the medieval Indian Ocean world and those he forges along the South Asian littoral in an era of climate change in the narrative works In an Antique Land and The Hungry Tide. Both turn to the Indian Ocean and its coastal delta in search of the permeability that characterises the littoral and the syncretic and/or dialogic cultural and life forms emerging along it, which stand in contrast to geopolitical boundaries and species borders. In this social, political and ecological space they locate a cosmopolitanism that interweaves, elaborates and exceeds the three principle threads in cosmopolitan thought. Reconceiving cosmopolitanism from the South in the ‘Anthropocene Age’, Ghosh – it is argued – pushes beyond the political limits of the ‘citizen of the world’ while immersing this concept in the mud of a local – sticky yet fluid – ecosystem.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2005
Publisher: Modern Language Association (MLA)
Date: 10-2016
DOI: 10.1632/PMLA.2016.131.5.1544
Abstract: Returning Recently to Teach at My Alma Mater, The University of Cape Town, I Was Amazed to Find That the Undergraduate curriculum to which I had been exposed at the dawn of the post-apartheid era remained substantially unaltered. With the exception of an experimentally convened introductory year that reverses chronology with interesting effects, the English major continues to plot a literary history across four inherited periods: Shakespeare and Co., Romance to Realism, Modernism, and Contemporary Literature, which collapses a previous bifurcation of the capstone course into Postmodernism or Postcolonialism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 02-11-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2008
Start Date: 04-2021
End Date: 03-2025
Amount: $178,386.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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