The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical
novel has been transformed by its appropriation in postcolonial writing. It proposes new …

On 14 July, 2011, Anton van Niekerk, a portly, silver-haired professor of Philosophy at the
University of Stellenbosch, got beaten up in his office by a tall, burly fellow called Abel …

T, he recent surge of interest in late modernism has expanded the purview of modernist
studies in at least two directions: on one hand, the study of late modernism addresses lesser …

Realism has a bad reputation in contemporary times. Generally thought to be an outdated
mode that had its heyday in Victorian fiction, the French bourgeois novel, and pre …

This essay asks what it means to call Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) a
postcolonial bildungsroman. It argues that there is a fundamental contradiction in the term …

In this article I argue that Nigerian author Chinua Achebe ostentatiously co-opted Yeats's
poem 'The Second Coming'in the title of his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart to mobilize a …

I in 1992, the veteran-artist of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde, Tamás Szentjóby, presented
the residents and tourists of Budapest with the surprising sight of a public-art project entitled …

warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications Page 1 warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications Original citation: Lazarus,
Neil and Shapiro, Stephen (2017) Translatability, combined unevenness and world literature …

This essay examines Arundhati Roy's Walking with the Comrades (2011), a reportage about
Maoist guerrillas engaged in an armed struggle against the Indian state, as a contemporary …

Through a reappraisal of the work of four major figures in critical theory–Ernst Bloch, Georg
Lukács, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin–Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of …