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Erica Lombard

Other affiliations: University of Johannesburg
Bio: Erica Lombard is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Memoir & Consolation. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications receiving 6 citations. Previous affiliations of Erica Lombard include University of Johannesburg.

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03 Oct 2019-Wasafiri
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the extent to which contemporary black and Asian British writing is understood as British by British readers, and which forces, especially in the UK, are responsible for this.
Abstract: This essay begins with two linked questions. First, to what extent is contemporary black and Asian British writing understood as British by British readers? And, second, which forces, especially in...

2 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examines the work of nostalgia in Denis Hirson's I Remember King Kong (The Boxer), a poetic memoir of childhood that met with both critical acclaim and remarkable commercial success when it was published in South Africa in 2004.
Abstract: This paper examines the work of nostalgia in Denis Hirson's I Remember King Kong (The Boxer), a poetic memoir of childhood that met with both critical acclaim and remarkable commercial success when it was published in South Africa in 2004. The book provides a telling case study of the multifaceted operation of nostalgia in literature and culture, which is explored in this paper as not only a concern within literature, but also an affect produced in the reading of literature, which may take on ethical, social or political significance as a personal or cultural narrative as well as value as a commodity. Accordingly, the discussion attends both to the literary features of King Kong and to its publication and reception in South Africa. It is argued that the text presents a reflective engagement with memory that foregrounds the fluid and often dissonant relationship between the past and present, individual memory and public history. Yet the reception of this book about white childhood in a predominantly white market, within a society in which white nostalgia is an especially vexed phenomenon, also foregrounds nostalgia's ambivalent potential for both critique and consolation in the post-apartheid literary and cultural field.

1 citations

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TL;DR: This paper explored the epistemological implications of one of the most striking features in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (1988]1997): its systematic frustration of the expectations of its readers through an examination of its use of narrated deception and its skilful deployment of irony.
Abstract: Summary This article explores the epistemological implications of one of the most striking features in Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda ([1988]1997): its systematic frustration of the expectations of its readers Through an examination of its use of narratorial deception and its skilful deployment of irony, the article argues that the novel prevents readers from occupying a detached position in relation to it and its themes Particular attention is given to its concern with the provisional nature of human ways of seeing, exemplified by the metaphor of glass that is developed throughout the novel Oscar and Lucinda compels readers to reflect on the subject position they take up in relation to it, and, in so doing, on their implication in cultural systems of knowledge that seek to contain and eradicate what is deemed unruly The article suggests, ultimately, that the ethical project in Oscar and Lucinda is performative in nature, and that its success relies on the extent to which it is able to alert readers

1 citations


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TL;DR: The results provide data-based evidence supporting the hypothesis of some literary critics who suggest that in Latin America, certain publishers act as gatekeepers to the mainstream book market, and Twitter could be considered a valid source of information to address the independent book market in Spanish.
Abstract: The present paper uses Twitter to analyze the current state of the worldwide, Spanish-language, independent publishing market. The main purposes are to determine whether certain Latin American Spanish-language independent publishers function as gatekeepers of World Literature and to analyze the geopolitical structure of this global market, addressing both the Europe-America dialectic and neocolonial practices. After selecting the sample of publishers, we conducted a search for their Twitter profiles and located 131; we then downloaded data from the corresponding Twitter APIs. Finally, we applied social network analysis to study the presence of and interaction between our sample of independent publishers on this social media. Our results provide data-based evidence supporting the hypothesis of some literary critics who suggest that in Latin America, certain publishers act as gatekeepers to the mainstream book market. Therefore, Twitter could be considered a valid source of information to address the independent book market in Spanish. By extension, this approach could be applied to other cultural industries in which small and medium-sized agents develop a digital presence in social media. This paper combines social network analysis and literary criticism to provide new evidence about the Spanish-language book market. It helps validate the aforementioned hypothesis, proposed by literary critics, and opens up new paths along which to pursue an interpretative, comparative analysis.

7 citations

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Andrew Pepper1
TL;DR: The authors argue for Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon as an example of world literature, following Damrosch's foundational definition, and explore the implications of issues arising from two English to French translations of the novel to think about another facet of circulation and another form of exchange: the complicated equivalence between commodities, money and gold thematized by Hammett and the consequent uncertainties facing the global economy.
Abstract: Abstract:This essay argues for Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as an example of world literature, following Damrosch’s foundational definition. It considers how The Maltese Falcon circulates in translation and how shifting relationship between source and receiving cultures continually remake the novel and unpick straightforward understandings of ownership. As such, the essay explores the implications of issues arising from two English to French translations of the novel to think about another facet of circulation and another form of exchange: the complicated equivalence between commodities, money, and gold thematized by Hammett and the consequent uncertainties facing the global economy.

5 citations

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13 Sep 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the self-conscious narrative strategies in Mark Gevisser's Lost and Found in Johannesburg (2014), strategies which draw attention to the act of writing as a way of both voicing...
Abstract: This paper analyses the self-conscious narrative strategies in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg (2014), strategies which draw attention to the act of writing as a way of both voicing ...

2 citations