Simon Van Schalkwyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 941021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Van Schalkwyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Schalkwyk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN SCHALKWYK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4407-2922 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Underlands, Oils, and Antarctica
Dark Water
Critical responses to Rustum Kozain’s This Carting Life (2005) foreground the poet’s archaeologies, geographies and landscapes to rehearse familiar land-based narratives regarding South Africa’s history of dispossession and disavowal. In this way, they render proverbially “dark” the ways in which the collection’s water and water-related conceptual grid animates affective and conceptual potentialities set resistantly adjacent to terrestrially medi…
Undoing the Laws of the Universe”
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Autochthonous oralities and coral islands
This paper returns to early twentieth-century America’s concern with democracy and “the local” in order to frame the populist parameters of poetic appeals to “the people” in the work of the Southern Fugitive poets on the one hand, and William Carlos Williams on the other. It argues that the Southern Fugitives’ commitment to what Chantal Mouffe identifies as a populist politics of antagonism runs counter to Williams’s very different attempt to gra…
Risky business in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland
This article reads Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland as novels similarly preoccupied with the surreptitious linkages between risk, financial speculation, and terror. In doing so, it argues that Hamid and O’Neill mark a shift away from the post-9/11 novel’s prevailing investment in traumatic domesticity in order to develop nuanced treatments of how, in the wake of 9/11, risk, speculation, and terror are in…
Un-American Confessions”
This article argues that Robert Lowell’s employment of techniques of poetic "imitation" - a liberal form of translation - during the composition of the Life Studies poems allows him to simultaneously stage and to conceal his reliance upon foreign poetic sources. Lowell’s Life Studies imitations thus represent an attempt to “cover-up” poetic collusions with foreign sources at a time when cold war “containment culture” and the specter of McCarthyis…
Heterotopia and heterotopology in CA Davids’ The Blacks of Cape Town (2013)
CA Davids’ sustained preoccupation with the Foucauldian concepts of heterotopia and heterotopology in The Blacks of Cape Town (2013) allows her to inhabit, accommodate, and traverse global, rather than narrowly national, literary imaginaries. This paper demonstrates that heterotopic locations such as the garden, the library, the prison, and the graveyard allow Davids to explore unlikely intersections and overlaps between places as far afield as S…
I have been in an earthquake”
Published in 1929, Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica was praised by reviewers and critics across the spectrum of the British and American literary scenes (among them Rebecca West, Ford Madox Ford, Vita Sackville-West, Cyril Connelly, John Masefield, Hugh Walpole, and Arnold Bennett). At the same time, its readers were generally shocked by its portrait of child psychology (“the mind of the child”). While several critics applauded its realism,…
Heterotopia and heterotopology in CA Davids’ The Blacks of Cape Town (2013)
CA Davids’ sustained preoccupation with the Foucauldian concepts of heterotopia and heterotopology in The Blacks of Cape Town (2013) allows her to inhabit, accommodate, and traverse global, rather than narrowly national, literary imaginaries. This paper demonstrates that heterotopic locations such as the garden, the library, the prison, and the graveyard allow Davids to explore unlikely intersections and overlaps between places as far afield as S…
Un-American Confessions”
This article argues that Robert Lowell’s employment of techniques of poetic "imitation" - a liberal form of translation - during the composition of the Life Studies poems allows him to simultaneously stage and to conceal his reliance upon foreign poetic sources. Lowell’s Life Studies imitations thus represent an attempt to “cover-up” poetic collusions with foreign sources at a time when cold war “containment culture” and the specter of McCarthyis…
Heterotopia and heterotopology in CA Davids’ The Blacks of Cape Town (2013)
CA Davids’ sustained preoccupation with the Foucauldian concepts of heterotopia and heterotopology in The Blacks of Cape Town (2013) allows her to inhabit, accommodate, and traverse global, rather than narrowly national, literary imaginaries. This paper demonstrates that heterotopic locations such as the garden, the library, the prison, and the graveyard allow Davids to explore unlikely intersections and overlaps between places as far afield as S…
I have been in an earthquake”
Published in 1929, Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica was praised by reviewers and critics across the spectrum of the British and American literary scenes (among them Rebecca West, Ford Madox Ford, Vita Sackville-West, Cyril Connelly, John Masefield, Hugh Walpole, and Arnold Bennett). At the same time, its readers were generally shocked by its portrait of child psychology (“the mind of the child”). While several critics applauded its realism,…
Autochthonous oralities and coral islands
This paper returns to early twentieth-century America’s concern with democracy and “the local” in order to frame the populist parameters of poetic appeals to “the people” in the work of the Southern Fugitive poets on the one hand, and William Carlos Williams on the other. It argues that the Southern Fugitives’ commitment to what Chantal Mouffe identifies as a populist politics of antagonism runs counter to Williams’s very different attempt to gra…
Risky business in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland
This article reads Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland as novels similarly preoccupied with the surreptitious linkages between risk, financial speculation, and terror. In doing so, it argues that Hamid and O’Neill mark a shift away from the post-9/11 novel’s prevailing investment in traumatic domesticity in order to develop nuanced treatments of how, in the wake of 9/11, risk, speculation, and terror are in…
Dark Water
Critical responses to Rustum Kozain’s This Carting Life (2005) foreground the poet’s archaeologies, geographies and landscapes to rehearse familiar land-based narratives regarding South Africa’s history of dispossession and disavowal. In this way, they render proverbially “dark” the ways in which the collection’s water and water-related conceptual grid animates affective and conceptual potentialities set resistantly adjacent to terrestrially medi…
Undoing the Laws of the Universe”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Underlands, Oils, and Antarctica
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