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Studies in Scottish Literature
Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America
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- Anti-slavery movement (1)
- British abolitionists (1)
- Creative writing as research (1)
- James K. Baxter (1)
- Mary Prince (1)
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- New Zealand (1)
- Orlando (1)
- Robert Burns (1)
- Robert Burns Fellowship (1)
- Romantic-era poetry (1)
- Scottish abolitionists (1)
- Scottish iterature (1)
- Scottish poetry (1)
- South African literature (1)
- South African poetry (1)
- Still Life (1)
- Transnational authorship (1)
- University of Otago (1)
- Virginia Woolf (1)
- Zoë Wicomb (1)
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Thomas Pringle Reconsidered, Simon Lewis
Thomas Pringle Reconsidered, Simon Lewis
Studies in Scottish Literature
Review of Matthew Shum, Improvisations of Empire: Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789-1834. (Anthem, 2020), the first full-length critical study of the Scottish-South African poet, London literary editor, and anti-slavery activist Thomas Pringle, often regarded as "the father of South African poetry."
Serious Play On The Fringes Of Empire: Zoë Wicomb, Thomas Pringle, And The Transnational Author, Simon Lewis
Serious Play On The Fringes Of Empire: Zoë Wicomb, Thomas Pringle, And The Transnational Author, Simon Lewis
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the novel Still Life (2020) by the Scottish/South African writer Zoë Wicomb, which portrays a contemporary novelist researching the life and significance of the Scottish/South African poet Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) through an imaginative collaboration with an early 20th century bellelettristic biographer (referencing Virginia Woolf's imaginative biography Orlando) and with the intervention of two African figures Pringle believed himself to have liberated, the West Indian ex-slave Mary Prince (c. 1788-1833) and Hinza, the Tswana boy memorialized in one of Pringle's best-known South African poems, suggesting that Wicomb's novel (and her oeuvre) present an important transnational version of authorial identity …
'They Gang In Stirks And Come Out Asses': Creative Writing And Scottish Studies, Liam Mcilvanney
'They Gang In Stirks And Come Out Asses': Creative Writing And Scottish Studies, Liam Mcilvanney
Studies in Scottish Literature
Recounts the experience as a student of the New Zealand poet James K. Baxter and discusses the interrelation of creative writing and literary scholarship, in Scottish universities and in New Zealand.