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New Literatures - Southern And East Africa, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

New Literatures - Southern And East Africa, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

Michael Meyer introduces Word and Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures as a book 'that pays attention to the gaze and the voice in both visual and verbal respresentations of post/colonial spectacles (p.xvii).


New Literatures: Africa, Antonio Simoes Da Silva, Femi Abodunrin Jul 2013

New Literatures: Africa, Antonio Simoes Da Silva, Femi Abodunrin

Tony Simoes da Silva

Some significant items from 2007 re noted here as they were unavailable for review in time for the previous volume. Tejumade Olaniyan and Ato Quayson, eds., African Literature: An anthology of Criticism and Theory, chronicles the evolution of African literature as 'a propelling force in the growth of more global studies such as postcolonial literary and cultural studies'. However, the editors lament that while the continent's literature has grown in volume and reputation in the past few decades, African literary criticism and theory have attained far more modest degrees of recognition and success, especially in Europe and North America, even …


Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Under New Management: Whiteness In Post-Apartheid South African Life Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

Alfred J. Lopez begins his introduction to postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire by stating "Whiteness is not, yet we continue for many reasons to act as though it is" (1). He is especially interested in "what happens to whiteness after empire," and proposes that it be understood as a dynamic relation of power. Despite the critical scrutiny it has attracted from whiteness studies, the racial category retains much of its ideological force. "The concept of whiteness as a cultural hegemon," Lopez argues, is manifest in "its lingering, if somewhat latent, hegemonic influence over much of the …


Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Narrating Redemption: Life Writing And Whiteness In The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

No abstract provided.


Globalised Cartographies Of Being: Literature, Refugees And The Australian Nation, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Globalised Cartographies Of Being: Literature, Refugees And The Australian Nation, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

This chapter considers the figure of the refugee as the displaced individual through the reading of a number of Australian literary works, which explore displacement 'as an extreme case of a more general modern condition - the powerlessness of the individual caught in the grip of vast collective purposes', to borrow Ian Watt's (1959: 218) comments on World War II prisoners of war. Through a critical reading of selected works aimed both at children and adult readers, I consider the role textual representation can play in creating a different understanding of the subject positions of the mass of individuals arriving …


Book Review Of Moutinho, The Colonial Wars In Contemporary Portuguese Fiction, Antonia Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Book Review Of Moutinho, The Colonial Wars In Contemporary Portuguese Fiction, Antonia Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

No abstract provided.


We're One And Many: Remembering Auto/Biographically: The Year's Work In Non-Fiction 2008-2009, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

We're One And Many: Remembering Auto/Biographically: The Year's Work In Non-Fiction 2008-2009, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

This year as in years past, the story of self told by self or other is strongly represented in this article review, and ranges from Brian Dibble’s impressive and endlessly fascinating biography of Elizabeth Jolley, to the earnest memoir of Paul Crittenden, crafted with integrity but a little too much attention to the dross of life, to Kim E. Beazley Sr. monotonous but historically worthy recording of his time as a politician who attained high office at state and federal level.


Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Longing, Belonging And Self-Making In White Zimbabwean Life Writing: Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun , Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

No abstract provided.


Border Crossing: Kim Cheng Boey's Between Stations, Antonia Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Border Crossing: Kim Cheng Boey's Between Stations, Antonia Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

No abstract provided.


Linguistic Minorities, Migration And The Nation State, Henri Jeanjean, Lidia Bilbatua, Gaetano Rando, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Linguistic Minorities, Migration And The Nation State, Henri Jeanjean, Lidia Bilbatua, Gaetano Rando, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

The last thirty or so years have seen the influx of millions of people from Africa, the former Soviet Union, the Indian sub-continent, middle and far east into EU countries leading to the formation of new culturally, linguistic and religiously diverse minorities in the areas where they have settled. This paper proposes to address the question of how established minorities react to this inflow of other minorities, and specifically how linguistic minorities face this new situation by taking as a specific case study the centuries- old Occitan, Catalan and Corsican minorities in their diverse sociohistorical and political contexts that range …


Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva Jul 2013

Embodied Genealogies And Gendered Violence In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Writing, Antonio Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

This essay examines two recent novels by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Purple Hibiscus ([2003] 2005) andHalf a YellowSun (2006), placing themfirst in a dialogue with each other, and more broadly with selected Nigerian writing on the Biafra conflict. Arguing with Adesanmi that Adichie belongs to a ‘third generation’ of African literary work, it traces the novels’ work of historical revisionism through gendered and embodied discourses of pain and violence. Adichie returns the reader to an aesthetics of excess firmly grounded on potently disturbing images of the ‘body in pain’, in Elaine Scarry’s memorable phrase (1983): the battered, bruised and …


Journal Of The Association For The Study Of Australian Literature - Australian Literature In A Global World, Wenche Ommundsen, Tony Simoes Da Silva Apr 2012

Journal Of The Association For The Study Of Australian Literature - Australian Literature In A Global World, Wenche Ommundsen, Tony Simoes Da Silva

Tony Simoes da Silva

No abstract provided.