Tony Simoes Da Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 317189 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Simoes Da Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony Simoes |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Silva |
| SIGNATURE | DA SILVA T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2453-8468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracing a Politics of Willkommenskultur in Recent German Fiction
This essay examines the treatment in fiction works of the decision by German Chancellor in the summer of 2015 to open the country’s borders to about a million Syrian refugees. Timur Vermes’ The Hungry and the Fat (Citation2020) and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go Went Gone (Citation2017) explore how a sudden, unplanned arrival of such a large group of people, in such a short period and under such fraught conditions manifested in German society and politics.…
Veni, vidi, vici
This review article offers a critical assessment of Ato Quayson's Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), engaging in passing with a debate between postcolonial theorists that appeared also in 2012 in the New Literary History (43.1 & 2). It posits that the History presents postcolonial literature, and indeed postcolonial studies, as much too settled fields, a view clearly at odds both with their genesis and with that reflected in the…
Displaced Selves in Contemporary Fiction, or the Art of Literary Activism
The impact of the above passage, taken from an essay written byKenyan essayist Binyavanga Wainaina, is indisputable. As we read adeep anger rises from within Wainaina's otherwise insightful, patientand generous advice to would-be-writers. A satire on ongoing representationsof Africa and of Africans, the essay appeared in a collection published byGranta Books in 2005 entitled The View from Africa
Embodied genealogies and gendered violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's writing
This essay examines two recent novels by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda NgoziAdichie,Purple Hibiscus ([2003] 2005) and Half a YellowSun (2006), placing them first ina dialogue with each other, and more broadly with selected Nigerian writing on the Biafraconflict. Arguing with Adesanmi that Adichie belongs to a third generation of Africanliterary work, it traces the novels work of historical revisionism through gendered andembodied discourses of …
Dissenting Lives
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. (Mandela, ‘I Am the First A…
The Chief Taxidermist has left the Museum’
Narrating a White Africa
The last three decades have witnessed a radical transformation in the political and social make-up of Southern Africa, evidenced especially than in the areas of race and power relations. ‘Narrating a White Africa: autobiography, race and history’ examines the ways in which life-writing forms are being ‘conscripted’ to make sense of the fraught and traumatic political and historical conditions of postcolonial Africa. That in the context of life-wr…
Rethinking Marginality
This essay fuses together a critical examination of contemporary Australian literary writings and a personal meditation about the author’s own ‘coming into being’ as an Australian: as citizen, critic and academic. The cross-cultural dimensions of this process are explored with reference to contemporary cultural studies of postcolonial and diasporic experiences of identity, as well as through detailed readings of a range of Australian novels. The …
Narrating a White Africa
The last three decades have witnessed a radical transformation in the political and social make-up of Southern Africa, evidenced especially than in the areas of race and power relations. ‘Narrating a White Africa: autobiography, race and history’ examines the ways in which life-writing forms are being ‘conscripted’ to make sense of the fraught and traumatic political and historical conditions of postcolonial Africa. That in the context of life-wr…
Embodied genealogies and gendered violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's writing
This essay examines two recent novels by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda NgoziAdichie,Purple Hibiscus ([2003] 2005) and Half a YellowSun (2006), placing them first ina dialogue with each other, and more broadly with selected Nigerian writing on the Biafraconflict. Arguing with Adesanmi that Adichie belongs to a third generation of Africanliterary work, it traces the novels work of historical revisionism through gendered andembodied discourses of …
Rethinking Marginality
This essay fuses together a critical examination of contemporary Australian literary writings and a personal meditation about the author’s own ‘coming into being’ as an Australian: as citizen, critic and academic. The cross-cultural dimensions of this process are explored with reference to contemporary cultural studies of postcolonial and diasporic experiences of identity, as well as through detailed readings of a range of Australian novels. The …
Rethinking Marginality
This essay fuses together a critical examination of contemporary Australian literary writings and a personal meditation about the author’s own ‘coming into being’ as an Australian: as citizen, critic and academic. The cross-cultural dimensions of this process are explored with reference to contemporary cultural studies of postcolonial and diasporic experiences of identity, as well as through detailed readings of a range of Australian novels. The …
Narrating a White Africa
The last three decades have witnessed a radical transformation in the political and social make-up of Southern Africa, evidenced especially than in the areas of race and power relations. ‘Narrating a White Africa: autobiography, race and history’ examines the ways in which life-writing forms are being ‘conscripted’ to make sense of the fraught and traumatic political and historical conditions of postcolonial Africa. That in the context of life-wr…
Dissenting Lives
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. (Mandela, ‘I Am the First A…
The Chief Taxidermist has left the Museum’
Embodied genealogies and gendered violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's writing
This essay examines two recent novels by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda NgoziAdichie,Purple Hibiscus ([2003] 2005) and Half a YellowSun (2006), placing them first ina dialogue with each other, and more broadly with selected Nigerian writing on the Biafraconflict. Arguing with Adesanmi that Adichie belongs to a third generation of Africanliterary work, it traces the novels work of historical revisionism through gendered andembodied discourses of …
Displaced Selves in Contemporary Fiction, or the Art of Literary Activism
The impact of the above passage, taken from an essay written byKenyan essayist Binyavanga Wainaina, is indisputable. As we read adeep anger rises from within Wainaina's otherwise insightful, patientand generous advice to would-be-writers. A satire on ongoing representationsof Africa and of Africans, the essay appeared in a collection published byGranta Books in 2005 entitled The View from Africa
Veni, vidi, vici
This review article offers a critical assessment of Ato Quayson's Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), engaging in passing with a debate between postcolonial theorists that appeared also in 2012 in the New Literary History (43.1 & 2). It posits that the History presents postcolonial literature, and indeed postcolonial studies, as much too settled fields, a view clearly at odds both with their genesis and with that reflected in the…
Tracing a Politics of Willkommenskultur in Recent German Fiction
This essay examines the treatment in fiction works of the decision by German Chancellor in the summer of 2015 to open the country’s borders to about a million Syrian refugees. Timur Vermes’ The Hungry and the Fat (Citation2020) and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go Went Gone (Citation2017) explore how a sudden, unplanned arrival of such a large group of people, in such a short period and under such fraught conditions manifested in German society and politics.…
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