Geoffrey V Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 192788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey V Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey V |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS G V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aachen, Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Imagining of Possibilities”: Writers as Activists
Dhlomo, Rolfes Robert Reginald: An African Tragedy
Der erste Roman des erst 27-jährigen Autors, sein einziger auf Englisch, ist zugleich der erste veröffentlichte Roman eines schwarzen Südafrikaners überhaupt, geprägt von einem tiefen christlichen Glauben und von der Beobachtungsgabe eines angehenden Journalisten. Das im Untertitel als „ein Roman in englischer Sprache von einem Zuluautor“ bezeichnete Werk (von der Lovedale-Mission veröffentlicht, die ihn als „Beitrag zur Verhinderung des Niederga…
Sepamla, Sipho
In den 1970er Jahren Anhänger der ‚Black Consciousness-Bewegung‘; Redakteur der Theaterzeitschrift S'ketsh und des Literaturmagazins New Classic; Gedichtbände und Romane; gründet 1978 die Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) in Johannesburg; nach der Beendigung der Apartheid veröffentlicht er 1996 den Roman Rainbow Journey (Regenbogen Reise).
Mofolo, Thomas Mokopu: Chaka
Das 1926 erschienene Werk, von dem Afrikanisten A. S. Gérard als „der vielleicht erste wichtige afrikanische Beitrag zur Weltliteratur“ bezeichnet, hat sich nicht nur als Bestseller aus den in einer afrikanischen Sprache geschriebenen Literaturen des südlichen Afrikas behaupten können; es ist – besonders seit Erscheinen einer neuen englischen Übersetzung durch D. P. Kunene (1981) – zunehmend Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Beschäftigung geworden.
Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni
Durfte wegen der südafrikanischen Apartheid-Gesetzgebung nicht an einer ‚weißen‘ Universität studieren; ab 1972 Journalist beim Rand Daily Mail; Stipendium der UNO und Studium an der Columbia Universität (USA); wurde mit seinem Gedichtband Sounds of a Cowhide Drum zu einem der bekanntesten Vertreter der ‚Black-Consciousness‘-Lyrik; 1989 Emigration in die USA.
Mphahlele, Es'kia: The Wanderers
Seinen ersten, 1971 erschienenen Roman widmete der Verfasser einer der bestimmenden Erfahrungen des eigenen Lebens, der des Exils. Mphahleles schon 1968 vollendeter Roman wurde in Südafrika zunächst verboten; im Zuge einer einzigartigen – und umstrittenen – Entscheidung kehrte Mphahlele 1977, also lange vor dem Ende der Apartheid, nach Südafrika zurück, wo die Zensurbehörde das Verbot 1983 aufhob.
Mofolo, Thomas Mokopu: Moeti oa bochabela
Das 1907 erschienene, zum Teil autobiographische Werk des jungen Autors stellt die Mythologie und die traditionellen Sitten und Gebräuche der Basotho den Glaubenssätzen des von den Weißen eingeführten Christentums gegenüber. Die Verwendung des allegorischen Grundmotivs der Pilgerfahrt ist wohl John Bunyans Erbauungsbuch The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) nachempfunden, das Mofolo in Englisch und Südsotho vorlag.
Environment and Belief Systems
Gender and Rights
Gender and Rights
The advent of a genre: Crime fiction and the state of the nation in South Africa
This article focuses on how South African crime fiction reflects and critiques the state of the nation. It recapitulates the history of the genre under apartheid, referring particularly to Wessel Ebersohn and James McClure, before reviewing its subsequent development, which is characterized in part by a concern to embrace the social and political problems of post-apartheid society. Taking account of crime statistics, and of the ambivalence some w…
Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts
Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Military Service since 1945
Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Military Service since 1945." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), pp. 300–301
Urging Readers to Know the Books Written Earlier
Swimming Against the Tide
Australian, New Zealand and Pacific literatures
edited and introduced by Rudolf Bader and Anja Schwarz with contributions by Gerhard Stilz, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources, Vol. 2, Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2
Writing Now Review Essay
Gods without Men Hari Kunzru Hamish Hamilton, London, 2011, pb 400pp ISBN 0 2411 4311 7 £12.99 www.penguin.co.uk Celebrate Wha? Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands Eric Doumerc and Roy McFarl
Zimbabwean Transitions
This collection of essays on Zimbabwean literature brings together studies of both Rhodesian and Zimbabwean literature, spanning different languages and genres. It charts the at times painful process of the evolution of Rhodesian/ Zimbabwean identities that was shaped by pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial realities. The hybrid nature of the society emerges as different writers endeavour to make sense of their world. Two essays focus on the …
Words of Praise for Yvonne Vera. On the Occasion of the Award of the LiBeratur Prize For Her Novel in German Translation Under the Title Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6 October 2002
"Words of Praise for Yvonne Vera. On the Occasion of the Award of the LiBeratur Prize For Her Novel in German Translation Under the Title Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6 October 2002" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
Of Minstrelsy and Masks
Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a ‘Post’-Colonial World
Studying postcolonial literatures in English can (and indeed should) make a human rights activist of the reader – there is, after all, any amount of evidence to show the injustices and inhumanity thrown up by processes of decolonization and the struggle with past legacies and present corruptions. Yet the human-rights aspect of postcolonial literary studies has been somewhat marginalized by scholars preoccupied with more fashionable questions of t…
“The people are claiming their history”: Reconstructions of History in Black South African Writing
Voices of Justice and Reason: Apartheid and Beyond in South African Literature
Over the past fifty years transformations of great moment have taken place in South Africa. Apartheid and the subsequent transition to a democratic, non-racial society in particular have exercised a profound effect on the practice of literature. This study traces the development of literature under apartheid, then seeks to identify the ways in which writers and theatre practitioners are now facing the challenges of a new social order. The main fo…
Addressing the Silences of the Past: Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Theatre
(1999). ADDRESSING THE SILENCES OF THE PAST: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN POST-APARTHEID THEATRE. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 59-72
Of “Undesirability” The Control of Theatre in South Africa during the Age of Apartheid
The advent of a genre: Crime fiction and the state of the nation in South Africa
This article focuses on how South African crime fiction reflects and critiques the state of the nation. It recapitulates the history of the genre under apartheid, referring particularly to Wessel Ebersohn and James McClure, before reviewing its subsequent development, which is characterized in part by a concern to embrace the social and political problems of post-apartheid society. Taking account of crime statistics, and of the ambivalence some w…
Australian, New Zealand and Pacific literatures
edited and introduced by Rudolf Bader and Anja Schwarz with contributions by Gerhard Stilz, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources, Vol. 2, Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2
D. R. Midgley's Arnold Zweig: Zu Werk Und Wandlung 1927–1948
Die Freundschaft Und Die Literatur’: The Correspondence of Lion Feuchtwanger and Arnold Zweig
Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English
Le Kenya
Getting back to writing: An Interview with Mtutuzeli Matshoba
On a knife edge: Interview with Dennis Brutus
Levelling the Playing Fields: An Interview with David and Marie Philip
From Soweto to Gorée: A South African Writer in Search of the African Heritage
Theatre for a Post-Apartheid Society
Dan Jacobson: The Electronic Elephant. A Southern African Journey (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994), 373 pages. £ 17.99
Aratjara: Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia
ARATJARA is the first collection of essays on Australian Aboriginal culture published and edited from Germany. A group of internationally renowned scholars and specialists in their fields have contributed original essays on political and cultural aspects of Aboriginal life today. These various essays treat the struggle of Aboriginal peoples for land rights, their music, and their achievements in theatre, in literature and in the creation of Abori…
Of “Undesirability” The Control of Theatre in South Africa during the Age of Apartheid
Days of Miracle and Wonder: Standard Bank National Arts Festival Grahamstown, South Africa. July 3–13, 1997
Addressing the Silences of the Past: Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Theatre
(1999). ADDRESSING THE SILENCES OF THE PAST: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN POST-APARTHEID THEATRE. South African Theatre Journal: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 59-72
“The people are claiming their history”: Reconstructions of History in Black South African Writing
Voices of Justice and Reason: Apartheid and Beyond in South African Literature
Over the past fifty years transformations of great moment have taken place in South Africa. Apartheid and the subsequent transition to a democratic, non-racial society in particular have exercised a profound effect on the practice of literature. This study traces the development of literature under apartheid, then seeks to identify the ways in which writers and theatre practitioners are now facing the challenges of a new social order. The main fo…
Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a ‘Post’-Colonial World
Studying postcolonial literatures in English can (and indeed should) make a human rights activist of the reader – there is, after all, any amount of evidence to show the injustices and inhumanity thrown up by processes of decolonization and the struggle with past legacies and present corruptions. Yet the human-rights aspect of postcolonial literary studies has been somewhat marginalized by scholars preoccupied with more fashionable questions of t…
Of Minstrelsy and Masks
Zimbabwean Transitions
This collection of essays on Zimbabwean literature brings together studies of both Rhodesian and Zimbabwean literature, spanning different languages and genres. It charts the at times painful process of the evolution of Rhodesian/ Zimbabwean identities that was shaped by pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial realities. The hybrid nature of the society emerges as different writers endeavour to make sense of their world. Two essays focus on the …
Words of Praise for Yvonne Vera. On the Occasion of the Award of the LiBeratur Prize For Her Novel in German Translation Under the Title Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6 October 2002
"Words of Praise for Yvonne Vera. On the Occasion of the Award of the LiBeratur Prize For Her Novel in German Translation Under the Title Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6 October 2002" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill
Writing Now Review Essay
Gods without Men Hari Kunzru Hamish Hamilton, London, 2011, pb 400pp ISBN 0 2411 4311 7 £12.99 www.penguin.co.uk Celebrate Wha? Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands Eric Doumerc and Roy McFarl
Urging Readers to Know the Books Written Earlier
Swimming Against the Tide
Australian, New Zealand and Pacific literatures
edited and introduced by Rudolf Bader and Anja Schwarz with contributions by Gerhard Stilz, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources, Vol. 2, Trier, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2
Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts
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