My work
The following publications share a goal: to explore a mode of critical reading responsive to both environmental concern and the effects of colonizing, past and present.
During these years of research and writing I found myself in increasingly difficult personal circumstances: in 2017 I had to shelve plans for the book integrating these essays. Circumstances improved and I work currently towards the project's completion, a study that modifies my postcolonial ecocriticism by centering climate disruption.
All essays are accessible at Academia.edu.
During these years of research and writing I found myself in increasingly difficult personal circumstances: in 2017 I had to shelve plans for the book integrating these essays. Circumstances improved and I work currently towards the project's completion, a study that modifies my postcolonial ecocriticism by centering climate disruption.
All essays are accessible at Academia.edu.
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"Situating Ecology in Recent South African Fiction: J. M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness." Journal of Southern African Studies, 31.2, 2005, pp. 297-313.
(With Hans-Georg Erney) "Postcolonial Studies and Ecocriticism." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 13.2-14.1, Special Issue, Postcolonial Studies and Ecocriticism, edited by Anthony Vital and Hans-Georg Erney, 2006-2007, pp. 3-13.
"Toward an African Ecocriticism: Postcolonialism, Ecology and Life & Times of Michael K." Research in African Literatures, 39.1, 2008, pp. 87-106. Corrected version, 20 July 2008, www.postcolonial-ecology.net.
"‘Another Kind of Combat in the Bush’: Get a Life and Gordimer’s Critique of Ecology in a Globalized World." English in Africa, 35.2, 2008, pp. 89-118.
"A Place for Romanticism in Postcolonial Ecology? Julia Martin’s South African Travelogue A Millimetre of Dust." Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 11.1 & 2, 2010, pp. 87-112.
(With Hans-Georg Erney) "Postcolonial Studies and Ecocriticism." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 13.2-14.1, Special Issue, Postcolonial Studies and Ecocriticism, edited by Anthony Vital and Hans-Georg Erney, 2006-2007, pp. 3-13.
"Toward an African Ecocriticism: Postcolonialism, Ecology and Life & Times of Michael K." Research in African Literatures, 39.1, 2008, pp. 87-106. Corrected version, 20 July 2008, www.postcolonial-ecology.net.
"‘Another Kind of Combat in the Bush’: Get a Life and Gordimer’s Critique of Ecology in a Globalized World." English in Africa, 35.2, 2008, pp. 89-118.
"A Place for Romanticism in Postcolonial Ecology? Julia Martin’s South African Travelogue A Millimetre of Dust." Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 11.1 & 2, 2010, pp. 87-112.
"Waste and Postcolonial History: An Ecocritical Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron." Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa, edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers, Ohio UP, 2011, pp. 185-212.
"Ecocriticism, Globalized Cities, and African Narrative, with a Focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents." Ecocriticism of the Global South, edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 213-32.
"Critical Intersections: Ecocriticism, Globalised Cities, and African Narrative, with a Focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents." Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms, edited by F. Fiona Moolla, Wits UP / NYU Press, 2016, pp. 166-86.
"Teaching Literature as Climate Changes: Ecological Presence, a Globalized World and Habila’s Oil on Water." Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, edited by Stephen Siperstein et al., Routledge, 2016, pp. 197-203.
"Ecocriticism, Globalized Cities, and African Narrative, with a Focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents." Ecocriticism of the Global South, edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 213-32.
"Critical Intersections: Ecocriticism, Globalised Cities, and African Narrative, with a Focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents." Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms, edited by F. Fiona Moolla, Wits UP / NYU Press, 2016, pp. 166-86.
"Teaching Literature as Climate Changes: Ecological Presence, a Globalized World and Habila’s Oil on Water." Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, edited by Stephen Siperstein et al., Routledge, 2016, pp. 197-203.
12 December, 2024