Dr Sue Marais
Dr Sue Marais
Lecturer
B.A. (Honours), HDE (UCT), M.A. (UPE), PhD (Rhodes)
Email: s.marais@ru.ac.za
Teaching and Research Interests:
Short Fiction and Short Fiction Cycles; Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction; Post-Apartheid Literature; Transnational Film; The Body/Bodies in Theory and Film, Critical Race Theory, Gender & Queer Studies, Trauma Theory, Monstrous and Abject Bodies, and Posthuman Bodies.
Selected Publications:
Book Chapters:
2011: “‘Freeze-frame?’: (Re-)Imagining the Past – Vladislavi?'s Missing Persons.” Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavi?. Ed. Gerald Gaylard. Johannesburg: Wits 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Press. 25-45.
2001: “Discontinuity-in-Relationship: Apartheid in the South African Short Fiction Cycle.” Apartheid Narratives. Ed. Nahem Yousef. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 191-203.
Journal Articles:
2016: “‘The economies of repetition’: The Market, the Artistic and the Genocidal in Ivan Vladislavi?’s ‘Curiouser’.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature. [forthcoming]
2005: “‘Queer Small Town People’: Fixations and Fictions of Fellowship in the Modern Short Story Cycle.” Current Writing 17.1: 14-36.
1999: “The Doll’s House or the House of the Father? Maja Kriel's Interrogation of the ‘Maid’/’Madam’ Theme in Original Sin and Other Stories.” English in Africa 26.1: 81-106.
1995: “Getting Lost in Cape Town: Spatial and Temporal Dislocation in the South African Short Fiction Cycle.” English in Africa 22.2: 29-43.
1992: “Ivan Vladislavi?'s Re-vision of the South African Story Cycle.” Current Writing 4.1: 41-56.
Book Reviews
2020: Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2003. Ed. Andrew Van Der Vlies. 47.3: 145-150.
1995: Original Sin and Other Stories by Maja Kriel; Coming In and Other Stories by Sheila Roberts. Current Writing 7.1: 144-147.
Academic Engagement/Portfolios:
Co-ordinator: RUConnected
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