Chris Dunton
Biographic Data
| ID | 142064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Dunton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunton |
| SIGNATURE | DUNTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9544-7128 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Analysing recognition multidirectionally: Canada, United Nations membership, and the Algerian question
The process of admitting new members to the United Nations has historically been contentious and contradictory. This paper examines new membership through the lens of recognition, focusing on the historical case of Canada’s role in this debate between 1955 and 1962. Canada led the initiative to grant membership to 16 members in 1955 and supported new membership for 17 others (including former French colonies) in 1960. Simultaneously, it opposed r…
Canada and the United Nations at a Political Turning Point
In response to Kerry Buck and Michael W. Manulak's recommendations for the future of the UN, this essay highlights two problems that Canada faces in its current UN engagement. First, diplomacy and Global Affairs Canada are underfunded. Second, Canadian leadership has failed to adequately meet the political challenges of twenty-first century multilateralism. Focusing on the second, I argue that Canada must address key political difficulties to mak…
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations
As UN peacekeeping continues to move through a period of change and rupture, we conceptualise this turn as ‘pragmatic’ and take interest in its normative dimensions. In this introduction to a Special Issue, we take stock of scholarship on this pragmatic turn, arguing that it can be enriched through deeper engagement with theories of norms and practices, drawing especially on pragmatist approaches in the field of International Relations. We also a…
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: Methods, topics, and impact
Between Rocks and Hard Places: The Controversial Career of A.S. Mopeli-Paulus
This paper offers an overview of the career and writings of A.S. Mopeli-Paulus, with key concerns being his Lesotho–South African transborder experience, his self-identification as a Mosotho, his sometimes rarefied attempts to account for “Sesotho being,” and his regression from resisting apartheid legislation to participation in the Bantustan administration. The paper examines his English language novels, autobiography and unpublished fiction, b…
Femi Osofisan and the process of adaptation
Femi Osofisan is one of the most prominent contemporary Nigerian dramatists, with over fifty plays to his name. This corpus includes numerous adaptations, mostly from classic Western theatre. This article begins by addressing plays by Osofisan that are not adaptations, but that represent critical engagements with fellow Nigerian dramatists. Using a theoretical underpinning drawn from translation theory, it then analyzes the adaptations, focusing …
Other voices, other rooms: ” Notes on the production of Africanist scholarship in Africa and in the global north
Two starting points for the paper are a summary account of the accomplishments of Bernth Lindfors, whose career is seen as achieving a symbiosis between work on African literary scholarship done in the global north and in parts of Africa, and a paper by Carli Coetzee on journal work in African literary studies as, ideally, ethical labor. The title of the article by Coetzee referencing the “air-conditioned room” prompts the title of the present pa…
A Vital Question for Contemporary South Africans: SM Mofokeng’s Senkatana
This article examines SM Mofokeng’s play Senkatana as a version of the legend of Kgodumodumo and Senkatana, earlier versions of which are summarised to provide comparative contextualisation and to clarify Mofokeng’s thematic priorities in constructing his text. The discussion of the play focuses on its dependence on oratory, but more especially on the way it projects parallels between Senkatana’s life and death and those of Christ, and on the con…
Opening the black box of international aid: Understanding delivery actors and democratization
Renewing Relationships? Solitudes, Decolonisation, and Feminist International Policy
In this article we seek to understand how gendered coloniality is re-affirmed and reproduced. It does so by analysing the inter-national relationships formalised through two recent policy initiatives by the Government of Canada: its Feminist International Assistance Policy and ongoing bilateral mechanisms with Indigenous peoples organisations. Using feminist discourse analysis, we argue that the logics underpinning these initiatives are treated a…
Africa Pulse’: Dynamic Interventions in African Literature
Willing to serve: Empire, status, and Canadian campaigns for the United Nations Security Council (1946-1947)
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is a place where states can seek international status by campaigning for its elected seats. I understand status as membership in a club and examine both the nature of the hierarchies of status and the responsibilities associated with that membership. To do this, I examine Canada's first two campaigns to the Security Council in 1946 and 1947 in the context of the origins of the UN. I make a twofold argume…
Re-animating the works of Thomas Mofolo by engaging with the original Sesotho texts
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Traveller to the east or towards the rising sun? The English and French translations of Moeti oa Bochabela
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Paradiplomatic policing and relocating Canadian foreign policy
Even though they claim to recognize that the boundaries between domestic and international security have eroded, scholars of Canadian paradiplomacy have tended to ignore the security-oriented paradiplomatic activities undertaken by sub-national actors in Canada. However, policing paradiplomacy is, in our view, a perfect case for understanding how paradiplomacy in security can change the relationship between the state and its citizens. Through an …
A Man Travels
The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World , by Malvern van Wyk Smith
Reviewed by: The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World Chris Dunton The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World By Malvern van Wyk Smith Johannesburg: Wits UP, 2009. xi + 528p. ISBN 978 1 86814 499-0 paper. This is a time when African studies are turning increasingly to matters of epistemology; when we construct new ideas about the ideas we have about Africa…
Entropy and Energy: Lagos as City of Words
In his 1971 study City of Words , Tony Tanner employs the term “entropy” to characterize the vision of the city offered by American novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. The term applies equally to the accounts of Lagos given by novelists such as Ekwensi and Okara in the 1950s and ’60s and, even more markedly, to the work of members of the “third generation” of Nigerian novelists writing in English. An examination of texts by Hel…
Introduction: Everything Good Is Raining: Provisional Notes on the Nigerian Novel of the Third Generation
The origins of this special issue of Research in African Literatures date back to 1998 when the guest editors, Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton, drew up plans to assemble a collection of essays on what we referred to as third-gen eration Nigerian writing. This resulted in a special issue of the South Africa-based journal English in Africa, titled New Nigerian Writing and published in 2005. The essays and reviews collected in that volume focused on …
If You Like Professor, I Will Come Home With You’: A Re-reading of Wole Soyinka's The Road
Pupils, Witch Doctor, Vengeance: Amos Tutuola as Playwright
Although he is known primarily as a novelist, between 1959 and 1982 Amos Tutuola wrote at least three plays—The Pupils of the Eyes, Ajaiyi and the Witch Doctor, and Sword of Vengeance—of all which remain unpublished. After an introductory account of the circumstances that appear to have led Tutuola to develop an interest in dramatic literature, this paper explores the thematic concerns of the plays and relates these to the thematic territory of T…
Tatamkhulu Afrika: The Testing Of Masculinity
The life story of Tatamkhulu Afrika (1920-2002) is one of the most extraordinary—varied and perilous—of any African writer. It is no cause for surprise that his poetry and fiction so persistently explore conditions of exclusion, marginalization, and the traumatic negotiation of identity. The present paper takes Afrika's fiction as a whole and a selection from his poetry and focuses on his examination of the conditions cited above and, in particul…
Pierre Meunier, Nigerian Dramatist
Pixley kaIsaka Seme and the African Renaissance debate
Journal Article Pixley kaIsaka Seme and the African Renaissance debate Get access Chris Dunton Chris Dunton Chris Dunton is a professor of English at the National University of Lesotho. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 409, 1 October 2003, Pages 555–573, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adg047 Published: 01 October 2003
Human Rights and Homosexuality in Southern Africa
The disciplinary scholarship of teaching and learning in political science and international relations: Methods, topics, and impact
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations
As UN peacekeeping continues to move through a period of change and rupture, we conceptualise this turn as ‘pragmatic’ and take interest in its normative dimensions. In this introduction to a Special Issue, we take stock of scholarship on this pragmatic turn, arguing that it can be enriched through deeper engagement with theories of norms and practices, drawing especially on pragmatist approaches in the field of International Relations. We also a…
Paradiplomatic policing and relocating Canadian foreign policy
Even though they claim to recognize that the boundaries between domestic and international security have eroded, scholars of Canadian paradiplomacy have tended to ignore the security-oriented paradiplomatic activities undertaken by sub-national actors in Canada. However, policing paradiplomacy is, in our view, a perfect case for understanding how paradiplomacy in security can change the relationship between the state and its citizens. Through an …
Entropy and Energy: Lagos as City of Words
In his 1971 study City of Words , Tony Tanner employs the term “entropy” to characterize the vision of the city offered by American novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. The term applies equally to the accounts of Lagos given by novelists such as Ekwensi and Okara in the 1950s and ’60s and, even more markedly, to the work of members of the “third generation” of Nigerian novelists writing in English. An examination of texts by Hel…
Willing to serve: Empire, status, and Canadian campaigns for the United Nations Security Council (1946-1947)
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is a place where states can seek international status by campaigning for its elected seats. I understand status as membership in a club and examine both the nature of the hierarchies of status and the responsibilities associated with that membership. To do this, I examine Canada's first two campaigns to the Security Council in 1946 and 1947 in the context of the origins of the UN. I make a twofold argume…
Introduction: Everything Good Is Raining: Provisional Notes on the Nigerian Novel of the Third Generation
The origins of this special issue of Research in African Literatures date back to 1998 when the guest editors, Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton, drew up plans to assemble a collection of essays on what we referred to as third-gen eration Nigerian writing. This resulted in a special issue of the South Africa-based journal English in Africa, titled New Nigerian Writing and published in 2005. The essays and reviews collected in that volume focused on …
Pixley kaIsaka Seme and the African Renaissance debate
Journal Article Pixley kaIsaka Seme and the African Renaissance debate Get access Chris Dunton Chris Dunton Chris Dunton is a professor of English at the National University of Lesotho. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 409, 1 October 2003, Pages 555–573, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adg047 Published: 01 October 2003
Renewing Relationships? Solitudes, Decolonisation, and Feminist International Policy
In this article we seek to understand how gendered coloniality is re-affirmed and reproduced. It does so by analysing the inter-national relationships formalised through two recent policy initiatives by the Government of Canada: its Feminist International Assistance Policy and ongoing bilateral mechanisms with Indigenous peoples organisations. Using feminist discourse analysis, we argue that the logics underpinning these initiatives are treated a…
Wole Soyinka: Novelist, playwright, poet
A Bibliographic Listing of Nigerian Plays in English: 1956-1992
African Literature and African Historical Experiences
Human Rights and Homosexuality in Southern Africa
Pixley kaIsaka Seme and the African Renaissance debate
Journal Article Pixley kaIsaka Seme and the African Renaissance debate Get access Chris Dunton Chris Dunton Chris Dunton is a professor of English at the National University of Lesotho. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 409, 1 October 2003, Pages 555–573, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adg047 Published: 01 October 2003
Tatamkhulu Afrika: The Testing Of Masculinity
The life story of Tatamkhulu Afrika (1920-2002) is one of the most extraordinary—varied and perilous—of any African writer. It is no cause for surprise that his poetry and fiction so persistently explore conditions of exclusion, marginalization, and the traumatic negotiation of identity. The present paper takes Afrika's fiction as a whole and a selection from his poetry and focuses on his examination of the conditions cited above and, in particul…
Pierre Meunier, Nigerian Dramatist
Pupils, Witch Doctor, Vengeance: Amos Tutuola as Playwright
Although he is known primarily as a novelist, between 1959 and 1982 Amos Tutuola wrote at least three plays—The Pupils of the Eyes, Ajaiyi and the Witch Doctor, and Sword of Vengeance—of all which remain unpublished. After an introductory account of the circumstances that appear to have led Tutuola to develop an interest in dramatic literature, this paper explores the thematic concerns of the plays and relates these to the thematic territory of T…
If You Like Professor, I Will Come Home With You’: A Re-reading of Wole Soyinka's The Road
Entropy and Energy: Lagos as City of Words
In his 1971 study City of Words , Tony Tanner employs the term “entropy” to characterize the vision of the city offered by American novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. The term applies equally to the accounts of Lagos given by novelists such as Ekwensi and Okara in the 1950s and ’60s and, even more markedly, to the work of members of the “third generation” of Nigerian novelists writing in English. An examination of texts by Hel…
Introduction: Everything Good Is Raining: Provisional Notes on the Nigerian Novel of the Third Generation
The origins of this special issue of Research in African Literatures date back to 1998 when the guest editors, Pius Adesanmi and Chris Dunton, drew up plans to assemble a collection of essays on what we referred to as third-gen eration Nigerian writing. This resulted in a special issue of the South Africa-based journal English in Africa, titled New Nigerian Writing and published in 2005. The essays and reviews collected in that volume focused on …
A Man Travels
The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World , by Malvern van Wyk Smith
Reviewed by: The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World Chris Dunton The First Ethiopians: The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early Mediterranean World By Malvern van Wyk Smith Johannesburg: Wits UP, 2009. xi + 528p. ISBN 978 1 86814 499-0 paper. This is a time when African studies are turning increasingly to matters of epistemology; when we construct new ideas about the ideas we have about Africa…
Paradiplomatic policing and relocating Canadian foreign policy
Even though they claim to recognize that the boundaries between domestic and international security have eroded, scholars of Canadian paradiplomacy have tended to ignore the security-oriented paradiplomatic activities undertaken by sub-national actors in Canada. However, policing paradiplomacy is, in our view, a perfect case for understanding how paradiplomacy in security can change the relationship between the state and its citizens. Through an …
Re-animating the works of Thomas Mofolo by engaging with the original Sesotho texts
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Traveller to the east or towards the rising sun? The English and French translations of Moeti oa Bochabela
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Willing to serve: Empire, status, and Canadian campaigns for the United Nations Security Council (1946-1947)
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is a place where states can seek international status by campaigning for its elected seats. I understand status as membership in a club and examine both the nature of the hierarchies of status and the responsibilities associated with that membership. To do this, I examine Canada's first two campaigns to the Security Council in 1946 and 1947 in the context of the origins of the UN. I make a twofold argume…
A Vital Question for Contemporary South Africans: SM Mofokeng’s Senkatana
This article examines SM Mofokeng’s play Senkatana as a version of the legend of Kgodumodumo and Senkatana, earlier versions of which are summarised to provide comparative contextualisation and to clarify Mofokeng’s thematic priorities in constructing his text. The discussion of the play focuses on its dependence on oratory, but more especially on the way it projects parallels between Senkatana’s life and death and those of Christ, and on the con…
Opening the black box of international aid: Understanding delivery actors and democratization
Renewing Relationships? Solitudes, Decolonisation, and Feminist International Policy
In this article we seek to understand how gendered coloniality is re-affirmed and reproduced. It does so by analysing the inter-national relationships formalised through two recent policy initiatives by the Government of Canada: its Feminist International Assistance Policy and ongoing bilateral mechanisms with Indigenous peoples organisations. Using feminist discourse analysis, we argue that the logics underpinning these initiatives are treated a…
Africa Pulse’: Dynamic Interventions in African Literature
Between Rocks and Hard Places: The Controversial Career of A.S. Mopeli-Paulus
This paper offers an overview of the career and writings of A.S. Mopeli-Paulus, with key concerns being his Lesotho–South African transborder experience, his self-identification as a Mosotho, his sometimes rarefied attempts to account for “Sesotho being,” and his regression from resisting apartheid legislation to participation in the Bantustan administration. The paper examines his English language novels, autobiography and unpublished fiction, b…
Femi Osofisan and the process of adaptation
Femi Osofisan is one of the most prominent contemporary Nigerian dramatists, with over fifty plays to his name. This corpus includes numerous adaptations, mostly from classic Western theatre. This article begins by addressing plays by Osofisan that are not adaptations, but that represent critical engagements with fellow Nigerian dramatists. Using a theoretical underpinning drawn from translation theory, it then analyzes the adaptations, focusing …
Other voices, other rooms: ” Notes on the production of Africanist scholarship in Africa and in the global north
Two starting points for the paper are a summary account of the accomplishments of Bernth Lindfors, whose career is seen as achieving a symbiosis between work on African literary scholarship done in the global north and in parts of Africa, and a paper by Carli Coetzee on journal work in African literary studies as, ideally, ethical labor. The title of the article by Coetzee referencing the “air-conditioned room” prompts the title of the present pa…
Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations
As UN peacekeeping continues to move through a period of change and rupture, we conceptualise this turn as ‘pragmatic’ and take interest in its normative dimensions. In this introduction to a Special Issue, we take stock of scholarship on this pragmatic turn, arguing that it can be enriched through deeper engagement with theories of norms and practices, drawing especially on pragmatist approaches in the field of International Relations. We also a…
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