Graham Pechey
Biographic Data
| ID | 129485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Pechey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Pechey |
| SIGNATURE | PECHEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Empire laid up in heaven’
Mikhail Bakhtin
Exotic to demotic
'Folk etymology' is the linguistic move whereby speakers modify spelling or pronunciation so as to neutralise a strangeness of a word from another language or from a forgotten earlier stage of the same language. Obeying no known law, insisting always on the bonding of the phonic and the semantic, folk etymology challenges the nineteenth-century philology of the Neo-Grammarians. The saturation with historicity and sociality which was later to make…
Pharaoh's Sjambok
This essay brings into a single focus two phenomena of the first half of the 20th century: the globalization of certain South African words; and the emigration of some of its major poets. The interest is then to track the use—or, conversely, significant non‐use—of these words in the work of those same writers. Attention is given first to the resonance of sjambok in Roy Campbell’s “Vespers on the Nile”. Trek is then examined for its burgeoning ext…
Coetzee's Purgatorial Africa
Coetzee's latest novel is placed in the context of those other modern European literary constructions of sub-equatorial Africa that project the subcontinent as a purgatorial space beyond the pre-modern options of the infernal and paradisiacal. This high-cultural intertext, mediated by the hero's (cultivated) consciousness, should be given as much weight as the contemporary historical transformation of South Africa, which is here seen as replaying…
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Post‐apartheid reason
On The Borders of Bakhtin
The battle over Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical and political legacy may now be said to have been joined in earnest. It is a battle which is strikingly analogous to the contention over Walter Benjamin that raged some years ago and now seems to have run out of steam; there are good reasons why the present contention won' t go away so easily. In both cases, motifs of the most thoroughgoing secularism in history are held to compete with motifs derivin…
The story of an African farm
My concern ln thlS artlcle is to suggest how The Story of an African FArm might be related to two historical conjunctures: the moment of its production (1876–1883), and the earlier momement (1858–1867) to which the text alludes. From this it might be concluded that I shall be committing myself to large generalities about 'colonial history', or that at any rate this history will have the status of a solid datum to which the text must then be made …
Pharaoh's Sjambok
This essay brings into a single focus two phenomena of the first half of the 20th century: the globalization of certain South African words; and the emigration of some of its major poets. The interest is then to track the use—or, conversely, significant non‐use—of these words in the work of those same writers. Attention is given first to the resonance of sjambok in Roy Campbell’s “Vespers on the Nile”. Trek is then examined for its burgeoning ext…
Coetzee's Purgatorial Africa
Coetzee's latest novel is placed in the context of those other modern European literary constructions of sub-equatorial Africa that project the subcontinent as a purgatorial space beyond the pre-modern options of the infernal and paradisiacal. This high-cultural intertext, mediated by the hero's (cultivated) consciousness, should be given as much weight as the contemporary historical transformation of South Africa, which is here seen as replaying…
On The Borders of Bakhtin
The battle over Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical and political legacy may now be said to have been joined in earnest. It is a battle which is strikingly analogous to the contention over Walter Benjamin that raged some years ago and now seems to have run out of steam; there are good reasons why the present contention won' t go away so easily. In both cases, motifs of the most thoroughgoing secularism in history are held to compete with motifs derivin…
The story of an African farm
My concern ln thlS artlcle is to suggest how The Story of an African FArm might be related to two historical conjunctures: the moment of its production (1876–1883), and the earlier momement (1858–1867) to which the text alludes. From this it might be concluded that I shall be committing myself to large generalities about 'colonial history', or that at any rate this history will have the status of a solid datum to which the text must then be made …
The story of an African farm
My concern ln thlS artlcle is to suggest how The Story of an African FArm might be related to two historical conjunctures: the moment of its production (1876–1883), and the earlier momement (1858–1867) to which the text alludes. From this it might be concluded that I shall be committing myself to large generalities about 'colonial history', or that at any rate this history will have the status of a solid datum to which the text must then be made …
On The Borders of Bakhtin
The battle over Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical and political legacy may now be said to have been joined in earnest. It is a battle which is strikingly analogous to the contention over Walter Benjamin that raged some years ago and now seems to have run out of steam; there are good reasons why the present contention won' t go away so easily. In both cases, motifs of the most thoroughgoing secularism in history are held to compete with motifs derivin…
Writing South Africa
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Post‐apartheid reason
Coetzee's Purgatorial Africa
Coetzee's latest novel is placed in the context of those other modern European literary constructions of sub-equatorial Africa that project the subcontinent as a purgatorial space beyond the pre-modern options of the infernal and paradisiacal. This high-cultural intertext, mediated by the hero's (cultivated) consciousness, should be given as much weight as the contemporary historical transformation of South Africa, which is here seen as replaying…
Exotic to demotic
'Folk etymology' is the linguistic move whereby speakers modify spelling or pronunciation so as to neutralise a strangeness of a word from another language or from a forgotten earlier stage of the same language. Obeying no known law, insisting always on the bonding of the phonic and the semantic, folk etymology challenges the nineteenth-century philology of the Neo-Grammarians. The saturation with historicity and sociality which was later to make…
Pharaoh's Sjambok
This essay brings into a single focus two phenomena of the first half of the 20th century: the globalization of certain South African words; and the emigration of some of its major poets. The interest is then to track the use—or, conversely, significant non‐use—of these words in the work of those same writers. Attention is given first to the resonance of sjambok in Roy Campbell’s “Vespers on the Nile”. Trek is then examined for its burgeoning ext…
‘Empire laid up in heaven’
Mikhail Bakhtin
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