Ken Barris
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6597449 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ken Barris |
| PRENOMES | Ken |
| SOBRENOME | Barris |
| ASSINATURA | BARRIS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8179-3844 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Using the Low Ground to Get High
The discourse around plagiarism usually advocates a range of approaches from punitive to developmental. I argue, however, that the practice of plagiarism is a rational response to the complexity of learning academic discourse, and that it presents a student-owned learning asset that teachers should exploit. Instead of suppressing plagiarism as the first resort, its techniques should be taught as a platform for the acquisition of legitimate inform…
Re/membering the Future? Speculative Fiction by Eben Venter and Lauren Beukes
This article analyses two novels set in dystopic South African futures, namely Trencherman (2008 Venter, Eben. 2008. Trencherman. Cape Town: Tafelberg. [Google Scholar]) by Eben Venter, and Moxyland (2008 Beukes, Lauren. 2008. Moxyland. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. [Google Scholar]) by Lauren Beukes, a discussion framed by the following theoretical issues. The first question is the extent to which these novels might be considered "future histories…
Every place is three places”
Much attention has been paid to the pastoral, and to writing the city respectively. These preoccupations with city and country share a focus on ways of seeing, and modalities of being, that construct and are constructed by urban or rural environments. It is probable that less attention has been paid to literary spaces in which city and nature interpenetrate to form zones of instability. I locate such zones primarily in urban/rural seams which are…
Miscegenation, Desire and Rape
I discuss three novels that draw on different forms of sexual contact across the colour line, namely Turbott Wolfe by William Plomer ([1926]1976), Alan Paton's (1953) Too Late the Phalarope and Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (1999). These novels respectively explore miscegenation, interracial sex, and interracial rape. What unites these narratives is their anatomisation of the response in white society to such sexual encounter, crucially indicting sexu…
The “necessary silence” of realism in Zöe Wicomb's David's story
Language is not an Adamic naming of things; it's about discourse in all the senses of the word. The realist novel, like an Adamic language, does indeed claim to reflect things in the world, disguising the fact that it too is in the domain of the literary. But what's the point of reflecting the world; it simply leads to the tautologies of struggle-writing in which the writer rehearsed the already known evils of apar theid. (Wicomb, in Meyer and Ol…
Realism, absence and the man booker shortlist
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut was widely received as a text typifying the South African tradition of politically engaged realism, and its favourable reception was based to some degree on this perception. However, the novel projects apartheid‐era literary tropes into a representation of a post‐apartheid society; in consequence, these tropes draw on conditions which are absented from the narrative. This principle of absence is systematised in tha…
The “necessary silence” of realism in Zöe Wicomb's David's story
Language is not an Adamic naming of things; it's about discourse in all the senses of the word. The realist novel, like an Adamic language, does indeed claim to reflect things in the world, disguising the fact that it too is in the domain of the literary. But what's the point of reflecting the world; it simply leads to the tautologies of struggle-writing in which the writer rehearsed the already known evils of apar theid. (Wicomb, in Meyer and Ol…
Realism, absence and the man booker shortlist
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut was widely received as a text typifying the South African tradition of politically engaged realism, and its favourable reception was based to some degree on this perception. However, the novel projects apartheid‐era literary tropes into a representation of a post‐apartheid society; in consequence, these tropes draw on conditions which are absented from the narrative. This principle of absence is systematised in tha…
Miscegenation, Desire and Rape
I discuss three novels that draw on different forms of sexual contact across the colour line, namely Turbott Wolfe by William Plomer ([1926]1976), Alan Paton's (1953) Too Late the Phalarope and Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee (1999). These novels respectively explore miscegenation, interracial sex, and interracial rape. What unites these narratives is their anatomisation of the response in white society to such sexual encounter, crucially indicting sexu…
The “necessary silence” of realism in Zöe Wicomb's David's story
Language is not an Adamic naming of things; it's about discourse in all the senses of the word. The realist novel, like an Adamic language, does indeed claim to reflect things in the world, disguising the fact that it too is in the domain of the literary. But what's the point of reflecting the world; it simply leads to the tautologies of struggle-writing in which the writer rehearsed the already known evils of apar theid. (Wicomb, in Meyer and Ol…
Every place is three places”
Much attention has been paid to the pastoral, and to writing the city respectively. These preoccupations with city and country share a focus on ways of seeing, and modalities of being, that construct and are constructed by urban or rural environments. It is probable that less attention has been paid to literary spaces in which city and nature interpenetrate to form zones of instability. I locate such zones primarily in urban/rural seams which are…
Re/membering the Future? Speculative Fiction by Eben Venter and Lauren Beukes
This article analyses two novels set in dystopic South African futures, namely Trencherman (2008 Venter, Eben. 2008. Trencherman. Cape Town: Tafelberg. [Google Scholar]) by Eben Venter, and Moxyland (2008 Beukes, Lauren. 2008. Moxyland. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. [Google Scholar]) by Lauren Beukes, a discussion framed by the following theoretical issues. The first question is the extent to which these novels might be considered "future histories…
Using the Low Ground to Get High
The discourse around plagiarism usually advocates a range of approaches from punitive to developmental. I argue, however, that the practice of plagiarism is a rational response to the complexity of learning academic discourse, and that it presents a student-owned learning asset that teachers should exploit. Instead of suppressing plagiarism as the first resort, its techniques should be taught as a platform for the acquisition of legitimate inform…
Art (5 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Narrative (3 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 obras) · South African History and Culture (3 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Law (2 obras)