Peter Ribic
Biographic Data
| ID | 128760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Ribic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Ribic |
| SIGNATURE | RIBIC P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When It Comes to Crime, I’m a Nationalist”: National Integrity, Neocolonialism, and the Kenyan Detective Thriller
The Nigerian email scam novel
Looking to two third-generation Nigerian novels, Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief (2007) and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance (2009), this article examines representations of the "Nigerian email scam". Following the narrator of Cole's Thief, it reads these recent texts in the context of a longer, transdisciplinary encounter with the "informal economy", a concept that took shape in development economics in the early 19…
Bildung or development? Rereading George Lamming and W. Arthur Lewis
This article revisits two “Third World classics” published by West Indians in the UK in the immediate postwar period, George Lamming’s 1953 novel In the Castle of My Skin and the Saint Lucian economist W. Arthur Lewis’s 1954 essay “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour”. Reading these texts against the recent wave of research on the politics and aesthetics of the postcolonial bildungsroman, I argue that Lamming’s novel can be use…
Books: Review Forum
The Nigerian email scam novel
Looking to two third-generation Nigerian novels, Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief (2007) and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance (2009), this article examines representations of the "Nigerian email scam". Following the narrator of Cole's Thief, it reads these recent texts in the context of a longer, transdisciplinary encounter with the "informal economy", a concept that took shape in development economics in the early 19…
Bildung or development? Rereading George Lamming and W. Arthur Lewis
This article revisits two “Third World classics” published by West Indians in the UK in the immediate postwar period, George Lamming’s 1953 novel In the Castle of My Skin and the Saint Lucian economist W. Arthur Lewis’s 1954 essay “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour”. Reading these texts against the recent wave of research on the politics and aesthetics of the postcolonial bildungsroman, I argue that Lamming’s novel can be use…
Books: Review Forum
Bildung or development? Rereading George Lamming and W. Arthur Lewis
This article revisits two “Third World classics” published by West Indians in the UK in the immediate postwar period, George Lamming’s 1953 novel In the Castle of My Skin and the Saint Lucian economist W. Arthur Lewis’s 1954 essay “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour”. Reading these texts against the recent wave of research on the politics and aesthetics of the postcolonial bildungsroman, I argue that Lamming’s novel can be use…
The Nigerian email scam novel
Looking to two third-generation Nigerian novels, Teju Cole's Every Day Is for the Thief (2007) and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance (2009), this article examines representations of the "Nigerian email scam". Following the narrator of Cole's Thief, it reads these recent texts in the context of a longer, transdisciplinary encounter with the "informal economy", a concept that took shape in development economics in the early 19…
When It Comes to Crime, I’m a Nationalist”: National Integrity, Neocolonialism, and the Kenyan Detective Thriller
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Allegory (1 works)