Danyela Demir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3436663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danyela Demir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danyela |
| FAMILY NAME | Demir |
| SIGNATURE | DEMIR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3397-2266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Four Decades of South African Studies Viewed from Prof em Lindy Stiebel’s Career
Writing South Africa into the World: Contemporary Anglophone (Post)Apartheid Literature as World- and Postcolonial Literature
Sometimes, One Has to Create a Memory Through Acts of Imagination: In Conversation with C. A. Davids
Reflecting on Anglophone (Post)Apartheid Literature Beyond 2000: A ‘World-Literary’ Perspective
Anglophone South African Literature after 2000 has, Michael Chapman, argues, both quantitatively and qualitatively departed from South Africa’s literary output in the preceding decade. This development has been tentatively labelled as the beginning of the ‘post-transitional’ phase within South African Literature by Ronit Frenkel and Craig MacKenzie. Conceiving of it as a temporal marker rather than an artistic movement, they describe the post-tra…
Melancholia of the Privileged: White trauma, refused identification and signs of mourning in Sarah Penny’s The Beneficiaries
In his essay, ‘Memory, Metaphor, and the Triumph of Narrative’ (1998), Njabulo Ndebele observes that while there may have been an ‘informal truth and reconciliation commission under way among the A
Reading Loss. Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels
This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zoë Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid w…
A Walk through Hillbrow: Melancholic Attachments, Impeded Movement and the Search for a Post-Apartheid Image of Masculinity in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207
In South African writing, Johannesburg, as the economic centre of the country, has continuously been a topic for novels and poems throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the so-called “Jim comes to Jo’burg” genre, protagonists coming from a rural area are presented as being in danger of being seduced and swallowed by the corrupt ways of the city. Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 (2006) draws on and writes back to this genre in various wa…
“Break and Be Broken”, She Said, “That is the Law of Life”: Loss and Racial Melancholia in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat
Yvette Christiansë (2003: 373) argues that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission neglected daily narratives of loss in favour of an attempt of a nationwide process of mourning and a subsequent closure of the apartheid past. One account of quotidian losses certainly is Marlene van Niekerk’s novel Agaat (2004), which focuses on the relationship between the white farm owner Milla and her coloured servant Agaat. Throughout the story, Milla attempts…
In Search of a ‘Rock Star’: Commemorating Kabelo Sello Duiker's Life and Work Ten Years on
19 January 2015 marked the tenth anniversary of South African writer K. Sello Duiker's passing. Fifteen years after the publication of his first novel, Thirteen Cents, his works remain an important contribution to post-apartheid writing. His novels are taught at several South African universities, and they still attract interest for research, particularly amongst young academics. This article, which consists of two parts, commemorates Duiker's li…
Reading Loss. Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels
This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zoë Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid w…
Melancholia of the Privileged: White trauma, refused identification and signs of mourning in Sarah Penny’s The Beneficiaries
In his essay, ‘Memory, Metaphor, and the Triumph of Narrative’ (1998), Njabulo Ndebele observes that while there may have been an ‘informal truth and reconciliation commission under way among the A
A Walk through Hillbrow: Melancholic Attachments, Impeded Movement and the Search for a Post-Apartheid Image of Masculinity in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207
In South African writing, Johannesburg, as the economic centre of the country, has continuously been a topic for novels and poems throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the so-called “Jim comes to Jo’burg” genre, protagonists coming from a rural area are presented as being in danger of being seduced and swallowed by the corrupt ways of the city. Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 (2006) draws on and writes back to this genre in various wa…
In Search of a ‘Rock Star’: Commemorating Kabelo Sello Duiker's Life and Work Ten Years on
19 January 2015 marked the tenth anniversary of South African writer K. Sello Duiker's passing. Fifteen years after the publication of his first novel, Thirteen Cents, his works remain an important contribution to post-apartheid writing. His novels are taught at several South African universities, and they still attract interest for research, particularly amongst young academics. This article, which consists of two parts, commemorates Duiker's li…
“Break and Be Broken”, She Said, “That is the Law of Life”: Loss and Racial Melancholia in Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat
Yvette Christiansë (2003: 373) argues that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission neglected daily narratives of loss in favour of an attempt of a nationwide process of mourning and a subsequent closure of the apartheid past. One account of quotidian losses certainly is Marlene van Niekerk’s novel Agaat (2004), which focuses on the relationship between the white farm owner Milla and her coloured servant Agaat. Throughout the story, Milla attempts…
A Walk through Hillbrow: Melancholic Attachments, Impeded Movement and the Search for a Post-Apartheid Image of Masculinity in Kgebetli Moele's Room 207
In South African writing, Johannesburg, as the economic centre of the country, has continuously been a topic for novels and poems throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the so-called “Jim comes to Jo’burg” genre, protagonists coming from a rural area are presented as being in danger of being seduced and swallowed by the corrupt ways of the city. Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 (2006) draws on and writes back to this genre in various wa…
Melancholia of the Privileged: White trauma, refused identification and signs of mourning in Sarah Penny’s The Beneficiaries
In his essay, ‘Memory, Metaphor, and the Triumph of Narrative’ (1998), Njabulo Ndebele observes that while there may have been an ‘informal truth and reconciliation commission under way among the A
Reading Loss. Post-Apartheid Melancholia in Contemporary South African Novels
This book focuses on six post-apartheid novels, namely Zoë Wicomb's ''Playing in the Light'' (2006), Marlene van Niekerk's ''Agaat'' (2004/2007), André Brink's ''Devil's Valley'' (1998), Sarah Penny's ''The Beneficiaries'' (2002), K Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'' (2000), and Kgebetli Moele's ''Room 207'' (2006). It aims at highlighting different manifestations of melancholia that are visible in these texts in particular and in post-apartheid w…
Reflecting on Anglophone (Post)Apartheid Literature Beyond 2000: A ‘World-Literary’ Perspective
Anglophone South African Literature after 2000 has, Michael Chapman, argues, both quantitatively and qualitatively departed from South Africa’s literary output in the preceding decade. This development has been tentatively labelled as the beginning of the ‘post-transitional’ phase within South African Literature by Ronit Frenkel and Craig MacKenzie. Conceiving of it as a temporal marker rather than an artistic movement, they describe the post-tra…
Four Decades of South African Studies Viewed from Prof em Lindy Stiebel’s Career
Writing South Africa into the World: Contemporary Anglophone (Post)Apartheid Literature as World- and Postcolonial Literature
Sometimes, One Has to Create a Memory Through Acts of Imagination: In Conversation with C. A. Davids
Art (7 works) · South African History and Culture (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)