J A Kearney

Biographic Data

ID5448107
NAMEJ A Kearney
GIVEN NAMESJ A
FAMILY NAMEKearney
SIGNATUREKEARNEY J A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • Traumatised Narrators in Hisham Matar's Novels

    Open AccessJohn Kearney, J A KearneyARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies2014

    This article concerns the child-protagonist narrators, Suleiman and Nuri, of Hisham Matar's two novels In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance respectively. Noting how their traumatised experiences relate closely to the writer's own Libyan childhood, the discussion focuses on their use of desperate strategies to cope with, or challenge, their predicaments. Matar's personal awareness of lives marked by “shame, pain and fear”, and the …

  • The Representation of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Fiction

    Open AccessJ A KearneyARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies2010Cited by: 4References: 1

    In the context of international concern about the exploitation of children for military purposes, this study explores the representation of African child soldiers in five contemporary novels by writers from Africa: Johnny Mad Dog ([2002]2005) by Emmanuel Dongala; Allah Is Not Obliged ([2000]2006) by Ahmadou Kourouma; Beasts of No Nation (2006) by Uzondinma Iweala; Half of a Yellow Sun (2007) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; and Song for Night (2007) …

  • Transcultural Journeys in Mahjoub's Historical Novels

    J A KearneyARTICLEResearch in African Literatures2007

    Jamal Mahjoub's two historical novels reveal intense engagement with various forms of transculturation, ranging from the power-driven imposition of a new culture, to a willing absorption of the knowledge offered by another culture, or a reciprocal sharing of understanding between two cultures. In the first, In the Hour of Signs, Mahjoub sets up a central tension between the antitranscultural mission of the Muslim prophetic figure, the Mahdi, and …

  • Missing the point

    J A KearneyARTICLEScrutiny22005

    Extracted from text ... ~ 100 . . . . LETTER ~I . . . . . . . write to comment on the review of my book, Representing Dissension: riot, rebellion and dissension the South African English novel, which appeared scrutiny2 (9(1) 2004: 107?109). Gerald Gaylard believes that Representing dissension follows a marked trend South African literary studies terms of being in thrall to the sociohistorical (108). Although he quotes J M Coetzee's challenge to t…

  • The Boer Rebellion in South African English Fiction

    Open AccessJ A KearneyARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1998

    This article explores the construction and interpretation of the 1913–1914 Boer Rebellion in five popular romances by English white writers in South Africa. Inverting Frederic Jameson's conception of resistant form, a Utopian vision of a fully democratic South Africa is made to act as arbiter of these novelists’ insights/limitations. The wish to promote white unity is shown to be a common theme, developed mainly via a love plot, though with great…

  • A Comparative Study of the Narrators in Daphne Rooke's First Four Novels

    Open AccessJ A KearneyARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth…1995Cited by: 1

  • Reading the Bambata rebellion in South African English fiction

    Open AccessJ A KearneyARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1994

    The focus of this paper is a group of thirteen early novels by white writers in which the Bambata Rebellion features significantly. Discussed in turn are: (a) the novels tending to endorse white prejudice; (b) those which are ambivalent in terms of the sympathy shown to whites and blacks; and (c) those which involve some sustained questioning of white propagandist interests, and possibly even some empathy for the black cause. Underlying the study…