Gareth Cornwell
Gareth Cornwell
Professor Emeritus
M.A., Ph.D. (Rhodes)
Email: d.cornwell@ru.ac.za
Teaching and Research Interests:
South African literature; nineteenth-century, twentieth-century and contemporary American fiction; short stories; Joseph Conrad; aesthetic and affective aspects of literary studies.
Recent Publications:
2019: “Love as ‘Locatedness’ in Richard Ford’s The Ultimate Good Luck.” English Studies in Africa. 62.1: 58-69. DOI: 1080/00138398.20191636527
2019: “Cormac McCarthy and the South Africans.” English in Africa. 46.2: 7-23.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v46i2.1
2018: “‘Reckless People’?: Negotiations of Identity in Richard Ford’s Rock Springs.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 60.1: 75-85.
2018: “William Plomer’s Turbott Wolfe: An Anatomy.” English in Africa 45.1: 83-134.
2016: "Damon Galgut." British Writers. Supplement XXIII. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons. 105-20.
2015: "Ambivalent National Epic: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." Critique 56.5: 531-44.
2012: "Three Texts and the Moral Economy of Race in South Africa, c.1890-1910." English in Africa 39.2: 11-50.
2012: "For a New-ish Criticism." Scutiny2 17.1: 5-11.
2011: "'A Teaspoon of Milk in a Bucketful of Coffee': The Discourse of Race Relations in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa." English in Africa 38.3: 9-33.
2011: "J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello, and the Inevitability of 'Realism.'" Critique 52.3: 348-61.
2011: "'Style is the Great Betrayer': Socialist Realism in Alex La Guma's A Walk in the Night." English Studies in Africa 54.1: 11-20.
2010: The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English since 1945 (with Dirk Klopper and Craig MacKenzie). New York: Columbia 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press, 2009.
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