Daniele Nunziata
Biographic Data
| ID | 643554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniele Nunziata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniele |
| FAMILY NAME | Nunziata |
| SIGNATURE | NUNZIATA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0448-5757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queering the Postcolonial Auto/biography
Examining representations of queer subjectivities as minor subjectivities, this essay compares J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood and Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother to investigate the emergence of queer postcolonial auto/biography in the late 1990s. The two texts use a similar hybridized form (a blurring of autobiography and third-person biography) to represent marginalized queer subjectivities in the postcolonial contexts of South Africa and Antigua, respect…
Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
“Of Belonging or Not”
This article analyses two novels, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004), to elaborate on how they form postcolonial literary visions of metropolitan Britain, in resistance to colonialist depictions of the setting which have been disseminated across the world. The two works share related themes and motifs in their representations of the experiences of first- and second-generation migrants from Britain…
The scramble for African orature
This article examines the dynamic between orature and written literatures, a paradigm which, in colonial literary contexts, has been articulated through problematic dichotomies accrediting writing with superior cultural and literary value. Its case study is the Oxford Library of African Literature, edited in the mid-20th century by anthropologists E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Godfrey Lienhardt and W.H. Whiteley, who organized the transcription, translat…
The scramble for African orature
This article examines the dynamic between orature and written literatures, a paradigm which, in colonial literary contexts, has been articulated through problematic dichotomies accrediting writing with superior cultural and literary value. Its case study is the Oxford Library of African Literature, edited in the mid-20th century by anthropologists E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Godfrey Lienhardt and W.H. Whiteley, who organized the transcription, translat…
The scramble for African orature
This article examines the dynamic between orature and written literatures, a paradigm which, in colonial literary contexts, has been articulated through problematic dichotomies accrediting writing with superior cultural and literary value. Its case study is the Oxford Library of African Literature, edited in the mid-20th century by anthropologists E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Godfrey Lienhardt and W.H. Whiteley, who organized the transcription, translat…
Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
“Of Belonging or Not”
This article analyses two novels, Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004), to elaborate on how they form postcolonial literary visions of metropolitan Britain, in resistance to colonialist depictions of the setting which have been disseminated across the world. The two works share related themes and motifs in their representations of the experiences of first- and second-generation migrants from Britain…
Queering the Postcolonial Auto/biography
Examining representations of queer subjectivities as minor subjectivities, this essay compares J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood and Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother to investigate the emergence of queer postcolonial auto/biography in the late 1990s. The two texts use a similar hybridized form (a blurring of autobiography and third-person biography) to represent marginalized queer subjectivities in the postcolonial contexts of South Africa and Antigua, respect…
Art (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Empire (2 works) · History (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)