HELEN COUSINS
Biographic Data
| ID | 5165505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | HELEN COUSINS |
| GIVEN NAMES | HELEN |
| FAMILY NAME | COUSINS |
| SIGNATURE | COUSINS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newman University College, Birmingham, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lindsey Collen's Narrative Gift
Debates over publishing in African publishing tend to circulate around long-standing arguments about the appropriate language in which to write and whether it is better (or more ethical) for writers to support local presses or to seek international publishers to promote their writing more globally. In this article, the idea of the gift economy is used to explore how one African writer’s publishing practices – Lindsey Collen from Mauritius – can b…
ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space. This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the Afri…
ALT 34 Diaspora and Returns in Fiction
Helen Oyeyemi and the Yoruba gothic
White is for Witching is the vampire story Helen Oyeyemi conceived whilst reading Dracula and, despite its modern setting, it shares generic features and thematic concerns with this nineteenth-century gothic novel. Both can be described as narratives of reverse colonization, as described by Stephen D. Arata, which highlight fears that Englishness will be contaminated by the immigration of racial “others” into England. This article shows how Oyeye…
The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader
Contents: Introduction: on readers and reading, Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins Part 1 The Richard & Judy Book Club Readers: Suspicious minds: Richard & Judy's Book Club and its resistant readers, Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo Entertainment media, risk and the experience commodity, Nickianne Moody Different spaces, same old stories? On being a reader in the Richard & Judy Book Club, Alex Kendall and Julian McDougall Richard and Judy behin…
Helen Oyeyemi and the Yoruba gothic
White is for Witching is the vampire story Helen Oyeyemi conceived whilst reading Dracula and, despite its modern setting, it shares generic features and thematic concerns with this nineteenth-century gothic novel. Both can be described as narratives of reverse colonization, as described by Stephen D. Arata, which highlight fears that Englishness will be contaminated by the immigration of racial “others” into England. This article shows how Oyeye…
Lindsey Collen's Narrative Gift
Debates over publishing in African publishing tend to circulate around long-standing arguments about the appropriate language in which to write and whether it is better (or more ethical) for writers to support local presses or to seek international publishers to promote their writing more globally. In this article, the idea of the gift economy is used to explore how one African writer’s publishing practices – Lindsey Collen from Mauritius – can b…
The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader
Contents: Introduction: on readers and reading, Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins Part 1 The Richard & Judy Book Club Readers: Suspicious minds: Richard & Judy's Book Club and its resistant readers, Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo Entertainment media, risk and the experience commodity, Nickianne Moody Different spaces, same old stories? On being a reader in the Richard & Judy Book Club, Alex Kendall and Julian McDougall Richard and Judy behin…
Helen Oyeyemi and the Yoruba gothic
White is for Witching is the vampire story Helen Oyeyemi conceived whilst reading Dracula and, despite its modern setting, it shares generic features and thematic concerns with this nineteenth-century gothic novel. Both can be described as narratives of reverse colonization, as described by Stephen D. Arata, which highlight fears that Englishness will be contaminated by the immigration of racial “others” into England. This article shows how Oyeye…
ALT 34 Diaspora & Returns in Fiction
Imagined or actual returns to a "homeland" in African literature are examined in relation to changing concepts of identity, belonging, migration and space. This special issue focuses on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her "original" or ancestral "home" in Africa from other parts of the world. Ideas of return - intentional and actual - have been a consistent feature of the literature of Africa and the Afri…
ALT 34 Diaspora and Returns in Fiction
Lindsey Collen's Narrative Gift
Debates over publishing in African publishing tend to circulate around long-standing arguments about the appropriate language in which to write and whether it is better (or more ethical) for writers to support local presses or to seek international publishers to promote their writing more globally. In this article, the idea of the gift economy is used to explore how one African writer’s publishing practices – Lindsey Collen from Mauritius – can b…
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