Alastair Niven

Datos Biográficos

ID3586151
NOMBREAlastair Niven
NOMBRESAlastair
APELLIDONiven
FIRMANIVEN A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Stirling
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS28
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR27
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1977
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H1

  • Revealing deep waters

    Alastair NivenARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2023

    This is the second volume of a projected trilogy. The intention, well on its way to being realised, is no less than to document and to provide critical compass points for the story to date of all N

  • Political and Planetary Panic

    Sana Goyal, Lara Choksey et al.ARTICLEWasafiri2020

    ‘Why All the Books About Motherhood?’ asked Lauren Elkin in the Paris Review in the summer of 2018. In her article she notes the emergence of ‘a new crop’, a new canon of books about motherhood (pu

  • Celebrating an Abundance, 1984–2019

    Alastair NivenARTICLEWasafiri2019

    To mark the milestone of Wasafiri’s 100th issue, I was asked to cast an eye over the literary output of the past three-and-a-half decades and pick out one book from each year since 1984 which has s

  • Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth

    Sandra Robinson, Alastair NivenBOOKDiscourses of Empire and…2016

    In Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth a range of prominent writers and critics reflect on the legacy of imperialism and the role of writers in forging a new, more cosmopolitan identity. The contributors, writing about a wide range of countries, affirm the freedom of the human spirit, even within unjust or oppressive social systems. They show the power of words to illuminate injustices and unite different peoples. Salman Rushdie famously declar…

  • A world elsewhere

    Alastair NivenARTICLEJournal of Postcolonial Writing2016

  • The White Man's World (Memories of Empire)

    Alastair NivenARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2015Citada por: 1

    The rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party in England, the unpredicted resurgence of nationalism in the aftermath of the Scottish independence referendum, and sundry brutal attacks on free s

  • Memories, Dreams and Reflections

    Leila Aboulela, Luis Benítez et al.ARTICLEWasafiri2009Citada por: 1

    Leila Aboulela A Link to the Wider World Leila Aboulela was born in 1964 and grew up in Khartoum. Her novel, The Translator, was published to critical acclaim in 1999 and longlisted for the Orange

  • Obituary

    Open AccessAlastair NivenARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth…2006

  • John Figueroa, the man o pairts

    Alastair NivenARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2003

  • Obituary

    Alastair NivenARTICLEWasafiri2001

  • Alastair Niven in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo

    Alastair NivenARTICLEWasafiri2001

    (2001). Alastair Niven in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo. Wasafiri: Vol. 16, No. 34, pp. 15-20

  • Salman Rushdie talks to Alastair Niven

    Alastair NivenARTICLEWasafiri1997

  • Dedications and inscriptions

    Alastair NivenARTICLEWasafiri1997

    (1997). Dedications and inscriptions: Nirad C. Chaudhuri at 100. Wasafiri: Vol. 13, No. 26, pp. 48-50

  • The english patent

    Alastair NivenARTICLEThe Round Table1997

    the Commission was struck forcibly by the heavy concentration of resources and interest in the United Kingdom. This is perhaps unsurprising given the historical position of Britain as the centre of the Commonwealth, the location in London of the secretariats of many pan‐Commonwealth institutions and of the Commonwealth itself, and the fact that Britain is one of the wealthiest countries of the Commonwealth. In consequence, many of the source mate…

  • Interview

    Alastair NivenARTICLEWasafiri1995

  • Talando el árbol genealógico

    Open AccessAlastair NivenARTICLEEstudios de Asia y África1989

  • Old wine in new bottles

    Alastair Niven, Mike Gonzalez et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly1987

    Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe, 1986.150pp. £3.50pb Arrow of God. Chinua Achebe, 1986. 230pp. £3.50pb A Grain of Wheat. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1986. 247pp. £3.95pb Petals of Blood. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 1986. 250pp. £3.95pb God's Bits of Wood. Sembene Ousmane, 1986. 245pp. £3.50pb Estrangement. Elechi Amadi, 1986. 244pp. £3.95pb London: Heinemann Educational Books (African Writers Series) The Beggar's Strike. Aminata Sow Fall, London: Longman (African…

  • History is spring cleaning’

    Alastair NivenARTICLEWasafiri1986

  • Annual Bibliography of Commonwealth Literature 1985

    Open AccessAngus Calder, Alastair NivenARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth…1986

  • To What End

    Open AccessAlastair NivenARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth…1986

  • And Night Fell

    Alastair NivenARTICLEAfrican Affairs1986

    Journal Article And Night Fell Get access And Night Fell, by Molefe Phero. London, Allison and Busby, 1983. 218 pp. £8.95 ALASTAIR NIVEN ALASTAIR NIVEN Institute of Commonwealth StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 338, January 1986, Pages 148–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097764 Published: 01 January 1986

  • Africa and the Arts

    Alastair NivenARTICLEAfrican Affairs1985

    Journal Article AFRICA AND THE ARTS Get access ALASTAIR NIVEN ALASTAIR NIVEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 335, April 1985, Pages 183–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097679 Published: 01 April 1985

  • Books reviewed

    Norman Etherington, Paul Thompson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies1984

    J. B. Peires, The House of Phalo (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981 and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. x+281; J. B. Peires (ed.), Before and After Shaka: Papers in Nguni History (Grahamstown: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, 1981), pp. vi+267. Charles van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886–1914: 1 New Babylon, 2 New Nineveh (Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Lond…

  • Current literature 1980

    Alastair NivenARTICLEEnglish Studies1982

  • Teaching African Literature Critically

    Open AccessFrank Birbalsingh, Martin Banham et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1982