LOES NAS

Biographic Data

ID5979455
NAMELOES NAS
GIVEN NAMESLOES
FAMILY NAMENAS
SIGNATURENAS L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Western Cape
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX0

  • “Where the Mask Ends and the Face Begins Is Not Certain”: Mediating Ethnicity and Cheating Geography in Jonny Steinberg's Little Liberia

    Open AccessLOES NASARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies2013

    Mixing historical commentary, reportage, biography and personal stories, South African writer Jonny Steinberg takes up the tale of a fractured African nation and its diaspora in Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City (2011). The “little Liberia” founded in New York's urban jungle may have represented, for many of its inhabitants, a way to “cheat geography” by recreating a home away from home, but Little Liberia shows the reader it ha…

  • Boundary Crossings: John Barth's Renewed Love Affair with the Short Story

    Open AccessLOES NASARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies2007

    John Barth's return to the short story after an absence of almost 30 years in the genre has been heralded by the publication of two collections of short stories. Both collections signify a valuable building block in his life-long encyclopaedic project on the origin of fiction, its viability and its survival. In vintage-Barth style, narration is theorised and theory is narrativised in the self-conscious short narratives. Playing with different nar…

  • Speaking For/Against/From the Inside: The Uses of American Studies

    LOES NASARTICLESafundi2007

    I first became acquainted with Doris Friedensohn in 1997 when I participated in a USIS1-sponsored American Studies Winter School at the University of Delaware. I was part of a group of American stu

  • Border crossings in Latina Narrative: Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    Open AccessLOES NASARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies2003

    In spite of being labelled a postcolonial novelist, Julia Alvarez avoids becoming a spokesperson for a generalised US Latino/a experience in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) and thus escapes the double bind of group identity, or “representation” that is often associated with so‐called multi‐ethnic literature. Although Alvarez fits perfectly in the pluralist view of American society in the last few decades, her novel is different in …

  • American studies: Margins, middles and metropoles

    Open AccessLOES NAS, Lesley MarxARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1999

  • “Scheherazade, c'est moi”: Narrativist mimesis and the principle of metaphoric means in John Barth

    Open AccessLOES NASARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1999

    Since his retirement in the early nineteen nineties as a professor of creative writing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, John Barth has published three new works: Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera (1994) ‐ which he calls a “semi‐novel semi‐reminiscence”; Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction (1995) ‐a collection of essays; and On With the Story: Stories (1996) ‐ a collection of short stories. The title and contents of…

  • Inscriptions into the blank: Autocommunicative strategies in John Barth’s Letters

    Open AccessLOES NASARTICLESemiotica1997

    L'A. analyse le processus d'autocommunication en œuvre dans la nouvelle epistolaire «Letters» de John Barth. La nouvelle est construite autour des themes des doubles et des echos, des repetitions et des reorchestrations. L'A. analyse les structures semantiques et syntagmatiques qui organisent la communication verbale dans ce texte

  • “Repetitions with a difference”: The case of John Barth's Letters

    Open AccessLOES NASARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1993

    Playing with the memory capacity of language on all narrative levels, John Barth redefines the notion of repetition. In this article a closer look is taken at how Barthian repetition in LETTERS relates to Kierkegaardian repetition, Derridean iterability and Heideggerian Wiederholung

  • “Let's run it through again, but in another key”: Intertextuality in John Barth's Letters

    Open AccessLOES NASARTICLEJournal of Literary Studies1992

    The article gives a poststructuralist reading of the different forms of intertextuality in John Barth's LETTERS (1979); it also focuses on his destructive and/or creative recontextual‐isation of his earlier works in LETTERS. The novel structures itself around the theme of doubles and echoes, of repetition and reorchestration, establishing a bottomless mise‐en‐abyme of the already read and the already said. Defying notions of origin and originalit…