Prof. Dr. Erhard Reckwitz
BOOKS
1976
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Die Robinsonade. Themen und Formen einer literarischen Gattung (Bochumer anglistische Studien, 4), Amsterdam, 658 pp.
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(with Bernd Lenz) "Aufgabenteil zum Studienbrief `Die Robinsonade`" (Deutsches Institut für Fernstudien), Tübingen, 20 pp.
1989
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Roman als Philosophie, Philosophie als Roman: Iris Murdoch `Under the Net` (Anglistik in der Blauen Eule, 7), Essen 176 pp.
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The Fused Vision. Dylan Thomas' Poetik der Simultaneität (Anglistik in der Blauen Eule, 8), Essen, 154 pp.
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(ed. with Elmar Lehmann) Current Themes in South African Literature (African Literatures in English, 1), Essen, 157 pp.
1991
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(ed. with Elmar Lehmann) Mfecane to Boer War. Versions of South African History (African Literatures in English, 3), Essen, 186 pp.
1993
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with Lucia Vennarini and Cornelia Wegener (eds.), The African Past and Contemporary Culture (African Literatures in English, 8), Essen, 187pp.
1994
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with Lucia Vennarini and Cornelia Wegener (eds.), Traditionalism vs. Modernism (Yearbook of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English, 3), Essen, 187 pp.
1996
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with Elmar Lehmann and Lucia Vennarini (eds.), 1985 - 1995. Ten Years of South African Literary Studies at Essen University . Selected Essays (African Literatures in English, 11), Essen, 296 pp.
1997
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with Karin Reitner and Lucia Vennarini (eds.) South African Literary History - Totality and/or Fragment (African Literatures in English, 12), Essen, 216 pp.
2000
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with Elmar Lehmann and Lucia Vennarini (eds.), Constructing South African Literary History (African Literatures in English, 14), Essen.
2011
- Dirk Hartmann, Erhard Reckwitz (eds.), Theorien und Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften
ARTICLES
1981
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"Der notwendige Zufall. Die Romane von Iris Murdoch", Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, 31, 334-356.
1982
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"Dylan Thomas, 'Lament''', in: Klaus Lindemann (ed.), Europalyrik. 1775 heute. Gedichte und Interpretationen (Modellanalysen Literatur), Paderborn, 393-413.
1986
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"Der Roman als Metaroman. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children; John Fowles, Mantissa; Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills"; Poetica, 18, 140-164.
1987
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"Literaturprofessoren als Romanciers. Die Romane von David Lodge und Malcolm Bradbury", Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, 37, 199-217.
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"Iris Murdoch", in: Annegret Maack, Rüdiger Imhof (eds.), Der englische Roman der Gegenwart, Tübingen, 112-136.
1990
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"The Broken Mirror - zur Problematik der Selbstbespiegelung in den autobiographischen Romanen Breyten Breytenbachs", in: Elmar Lehmann, Erhard Reckwitz (eds.), Current Themes in South African Literature (African Literatures in English, 1), Essen, 26-84.
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"To Break a Structure - Literature and Liberation in Breyten Breytenbach's The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist", in: Geoffrey V. Davis (ed.), Crisis and Conflict. Essays on Southern African Literature (African Literatures in English, 2), Essen, 205-214.
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"Intertextualität postmodern: J.M. Coetzee, Foe; John Fowles, A Maggot; Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot", in: Kunibert Bering, Werner L. Hohmann (eds.), Wie postmodern ist die Postmoderne? Vorträge des III. Verlagskolloquiums des Verlags 'Die Blaue Eule', Essen, 121-156.
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"I am not myself anymore - die Identitätsproblematik in den Romanen weißer südafrikanischer Autoren", Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 40, 206-229.
1991
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(with Elmar Lehmann) "Literatur auf Englisch: Peripherie befruchtet das Empire", Essener Universitätsberichte 3, 15-20.
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(with Elmar Lehmann) "The Dead Shall Arise. In Place of a Foreword", in: Lehmann, Reckwitz (eds.), Mfecane to Boer War. Versions of South African History, 7-14.
1992
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"Timothy Mo: An Insular Possession - Ost und West dekonstruiert", in: Kunibert Bering and W.L. Hohmann (eds.), Ost und West heute - Wider den Methodenzwang in den Geisteswissenschaften, Essen, 169-187.
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"History as Romance, Tragedy and Farce - Narrative Versions of the Anglo-Boer War", in: Elmar Lehmann, Bernd Lenz (eds.), Telling Stories. Festschrift für Ulrich Broich, Amsterdam, 163-187.
1993
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"'I am not myself anymore' - Problems of Identity in Writing by White South Africans", English in Africa 20(1), 1-23 (English version of the 1990 GRM-article).
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"Breyten Breytenbach's Memory of Snow and of Dust: A Postmodern Story of Identiti(es)", in: Maria T. Bindella, Geoffrey V. Davis (eds.), Imagination and the Creative Impulse in the New Literatures in English (Cross-Cultures, 9), Amsterdam, 137-148.
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"Britain's Other Islanders. Multikulturalismus im englischen Roman", in: Annegret Maack, Rüdiger Imhoff (eds.), Tendenzen im modernen englischen Roman, Darmstadt, 203-229.
1994
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"Writing from the Margins, or the Decentering of English Literature", in: Reckwitz, Vennarini, Wegener (eds.), Traditionalism vs. Modernism, 281-296. also in: Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici. English Studies VI, 301/1995, pp. 93-104.
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"Traditionalism vs. Modernism? By Way of a Foreword", in: Reckwitz, Vennarini, Wegener (eds.), Traditionalism vs. Modernism and The African Past and Contemporary Culture, 7-12.
1995
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"Die anglophone Literatur in Afrika", in: Rüdiger Ahrens, Wolf-Dietrich Bald, Werner Hüllen (eds.), Handbuch Englisch als Fremdsprache, Berlin, 476-480.
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"Das Glück liegt immer am anderen Ufer - britische Reiseberichte über Frankreich", in: K. Bering, W.L. Hohmann (eds.), Glück - Möglichkeiten, Unmöglichkeiten, Essen, 27-45.
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"Die südafrikanische Literatur und the politics of the other", in: Anglistik. Mitteilungen des Verbandes Deutscher Anglisten, 35-50.
1996
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"Colonial Discourse in Early South African Literature", in: Ansgar und Vera Nünning (eds.), Intercultural Studies: Fictions of Empire (Anglistik und Englischunterricht, 58), 121-147.
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"The rediscovery of the ordinary - Bemerkungen zu einer aktuellen Literaturdebatte in Südafrika", in: Peter Meyns (ed.), Staat und Gesellschaft in Afrika. Erosions- und Reformprozesse (Schriften der VAD, 16), Hamburg, 220-233.
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"Postmodernism and Postcolonialism", in: Lehmann, Reckwitz, Vennarini (eds.), 1985 - 1995,27-32.
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"None of our business? Ten Years of South African Studies at Essen University", in: Lehmann, Reckwitz, Vennarini (eds.), 1985 -1995, 7-13.
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"Section IV: South Africa. Introduction", in: Jürgen Klein, Dirk Vanderbeke (eds.), Anglistentag 1995 in Greifswald. Proceedings, Tübingen, 327-331.
1997
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"Annäherungsmöglichkeiten an postkoloniale Literaturen - dargestellt am Beispiel Südafrikas", Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung, 7(2), 171-199.
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"Literary History: A Problem Sketch", in: Reckwitz, Reitner, Vennarini (eds.), South African Literary History - Totality and/or Fragment, Essen, 11-21.
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"Editor's Preface", in: Reckwitz, Reitner, Vennarini (eds.), South African Literary History - Totality and/or Fragment, Essen, 7-9.
1998
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"Anomy vs. Agency in W.M. Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood", in: Frank Brinkhuis, Sasha Talmor (eds.), Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millenium. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Section IV/111, Utrecht: University for Humanist Studies (CD ROM).
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"Intertextuality - Between Innovation and Continuity", in: Barbara Korte, Peter Müller (eds.), Unity in Diversity Revisited. British Literature in the 1990s, Tübingen, 185-199.
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"Das Problem des Anderen: Die Wilden und die Zivilisierten in der Literatur", in: Josef Felsches, Werner Hohmann (eds.), Toleranz. Das Fremde Macht - Identität, Essen, 9-22.
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"Claude Bremond", in: Ansgar Nünning (ed.), Metzler Lexikon Literaturund Kulturtheorie: Ansätze - Personen - Grundbegriffe, Stuttgart, 57-58.
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"Paul Ricoeur", in: Nünning (ed.), Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, 465-467.
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"Realismus-Effekt", in: Nünning (ed.), Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, 453-454.
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"Writing from the Margins", in: Lindelwa Mahonga, Johan van Wyk and Johannes A. Smit (eds.), Marginal Literatures, Marginal Figures and Marginal Genres in South African Literature, Alternation (Durban) 5(2), 23-35 (revised version of the 1995 article).
1999
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'''Man's Bestial Other' - The Savage in the Colonial Encounter", in: Zbigniew Bialas (ed.), Aristippus Meets Crusoe: Rethinking the Beach Encounter, Katowice, 19-46.
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"Anomy vs. Agency in W.M. Serote's To Every Birth Its Blood", in: Zbigniew Bialas, Wieslaw Krajka (eds.), East - Central European Traumas and a Millenial Condition, New York, 287-297.
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"The Rediscovery of the Ordinary - Remarks about a Literary Debate in South Africa", Alternation (Durban) 6(2)/1999, 150-163 (English version of the 1996 article "The rediscovery of the ordinary - Bemerkungen zu einer aktuellen Literaturdebatte in Südafrika").
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"Breyten Breytenbach's Memory of Snow and of Dust: A Postmodern Story of Identiti(es)", Alternation (Durban) 6(2), 90-102 (revised version of the 1993 article "Breyten Breytenbach's Memory of Snow and of Dust: A Postmodern Story of Identiti( es)").
2000
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"Systems Theory, Mentality and Literary Avantgarde: The Relevance of Voorslag", in: Lehmann, Reckwitz, Vennarini (eds.), Constructing South African Literary History , 87-98.
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"Postcolonially ever after - Bemerkungen zum Stand der Postkolonialismustheorie", Anglia 118(1), 1- 40.
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"Südafrikanische Lyrik der Jahrhundertwende" , in: Titus Heydenreich, Eberhard Späth (eds.), Afrika in den europäischen Literaturen zwischen 1860 und 1930, Erlangen: Erlanger Beiträge, 189-206.
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"Thomas Pringle and the Failure of Romantic Organicism in South Africa", in Tadeusz Rachwal, Tadeus Slawek (eds.), Organs, Organisms, Organizations. Organic Form in 19th Century Discourse, Frankfurt/Main, 103-116.
2001
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"Postcolonial Theory - Bemerkungen zur Ethik eines Theoriediskurses", in: Werner Hohmann, Josef Felsches (eds.), Ethik und wissenschaftliche Objektivität, Essen, 9-18.
2002
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"South Africa", in: Christa Jansohn (ed.), Companion to the New Literatures in English, Berlin, 17-47.
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"Fantastic Constructions of the Contingent - Some Generic Remarks about Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa and John Fowles' The Magus, in: Zbigniew Bialas (ed.), Under the Gallows of Zoto's Brothers. Studies in Jan Potocki, Katowice, 149-187.
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"Utopian delights and dystopian horrors. Fiktionale Kindheitserinnerungen in der neu esten südafrikanischen Romanliteratur", in: Ralph Pordzik, Ulrich Seeber (eds.), Utopie und Dystopie in den neuen englischen Literaturen, Heidelberg, 183-210.
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"Breyten Breytenbach", in: Eberhard Kreutzer, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, Stuttgart, 63-64.
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"Andre Brink", in: Eberhard Kreutzer, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, 64.
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"J.M. Coetzee", in: Eberhard Kreutzer, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, 124-126.
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"Iris Murdoch", in: Eberhard Kreutzer, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, 418-420.
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"Alan Paton", in: Eberhard Kreutzer, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, 450-451.
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"William Plomer", in: Eberhard Kreutzer, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, 460-461.
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"Olive Schreiner", in: Eberhard Kreutzer, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Lexikon englischsprachiger Autoren, 505-506.
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"Crossing Boundaries: Experiencing the European Other", Ekonomia i Humanistyczna 3, 7-21.
2003
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"Unsettled Settlers or the Discourse of Land in South African Pastoral", in: Ewald Mengel, Hans-Jörg Schmid, Michael Steppat (eds.), Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth. Proceedings, Trier, 209-218.
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"Narrating Space: Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia", Ekonomia i Humanistyczna, 1, 7-20.
2004
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"Tea and the two colonial triangles: Timothy Mo's An Insular Possession", in: Zbigniew Bialas, Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski (eds.), Ebony, Ivory, Tea, Katowice, 134-144.
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"Literary Processings of the TRC - a Ca se Study", in: Bernhard Klein, Jürgen Kramer (eds.), Kulturwissenschaften in der Anglistik - eine Standortbestimmung. Dokumentation einer Tagung an der Universität Dortmund, 8.-10. April 2003, Dortmund, 91-94.
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"Iris Murdoch", in: Bernd Engler, Eberhard Kreutzer, Kurth Müller, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Englischsprachige Autoren. 113 Porträts, Stuttgart, pp. 193-195.
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"J. M. Coetzee", in: Bernd Engler, Eberhard Kreutzer, Kurth Müller, Ansgar Nünning (eds.), Englischsprachige Autoren. 113 Porträts, Stuttgart, pp. 56-58.
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"Voorslag and High Modernism" , in: Judith Coullie, Jean-Philippe Wade (eds.), Roy Campbell in Context, Durban (CD-Rom), 22 pp.
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"Czlowiek i bestia` w spot kanin kolonialnym", ER(R)GO. Teoria, Literatura, Kultura. University of Silesia Press 8(1), pp. 130-163 (Polish translation of of Man`s Bestial Other, 1999).
2005
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"Broken Mirror: The Prison Memoirs", in: Johan K.Jacobs, Judith L. Coullie (eds.), a.k.a. Breyten Breytenbach . Critical Approaches to his Writings and Paintings, Amsterdam, New York, pp. 97-115.
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"The Evil State . Police Brutality in South African Fiction", in: Rudolf Freiburg, Susanne Gruss (eds.), 'But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man'; Literature and Theodicy , Tübingen, pp. 455-470.
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"The Postcolonial Short Story", in: Arno Löffler, Eberhard Späth (eds.), The English Short Story, Tübingen, pp. 358-383.
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"The Forbidden Fruit - Sex across the color bar as a transgressive act in South African fiction", in: Rüdiger Ahrens, Maria Herrera Sobek, Karin Ikas, Francisco A. Lomeli (eds.), Violen ce and Transgression in World Minority Literatures , Heidelberg, pp. 263-283.
2006
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"French Symbolism in South Africa: Campbell`s Flaming Terrapin (1924)", in: Michael Hanke (ed.), Roy Campbell, Collected Essays , Heidelberg, 12 pp. (forthcoming)
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"Narrating Space: Bruce Chatwin`s In Patagonia", in: Lilianet Brintrup (ed.), Homage to Alexander von Humboldt/Homenaje a Alejandro de Humboldt: Actas (June/Junio 18-22, 2001), Arcata/Ca 2006, pp. 479-484.
2007
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"Between Satire and Suture: White Writing in Post-Apartheid South Africa", in: Azila Reisenberger (ed.) Special Issue: Minority Literature, Journal for the Study of Religion (University of Cape Town), 19/2, 99-112.
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"Prof. Dr. Moritz Maria von Igelsfeld, or a German professor let loose upon the world: The university satires of Alexander McCall Smith", in: Undine Weber, Janina Wozniak (eds.), Kultur und Literaturvermittlung: Festschrift für Werner Krüger, Stellenbosch 2007, pp. 167-179.
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"Wissenschaftskultur und Bildung" (with Jörn Rüsen), in: Konrad Schilling (ed.) Kulturmetropole Ruhr: Perspektivplan II, Essen, pp. 337-343.
2008
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"Whiplashing South Africa into the Modern World. The relevance of `Voorslag`", in: Geoffrey V. Davis (ed.), Theme Issue: South Africa , Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht XXXIX, 2-3, 231-241.
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"Les Robinsonades", in: Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson (eds.), Histoire Transnationale de l`utopie littéraire et de l`utopisme, Paris, pp. 513-518.
2009
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"Mouth Wide Open. Political Satire in Post-Apartheid South Africa", in Woiciech Kalaga (ed.) Political Correctness - Mouth Wide Shut?, Katowice, cs. 20 pp. (forthcoming)
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"Humanism and the Literary Imagination", in: Jörn Rüsen, Henner Laass (eds.), Humanism in Intercultural Perspective. Experiences and Expectations, Bielefeld, pp. 177-187.
2010
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"Stewing in One`s Own Juice, or the Inability to Transcend Spatial Limitations: Marlene van Niekerk`s Novel Triomf, in: Interiors, Cambridge
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"Understanding the Other: Timothy Mo`s novel `An Insular Possession`", in: Klaus Stiersdorfer, Laurenz Volkmann (eds.), From Interculturalism to Transculturalism. Mediating Encounters in Comsopolitan Contexts, Heidelberg, pp. 121-132.
- "Learning to Understand the Other: Timothy Mo`s Novel An Insular Possession (revised)", in: Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Issue 14), Dec. 2010, pp. 49-70
2011
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"Erklären und Verstehen in der Literaturwissenschaft", in: Dirk Hartmann, Erhard Reckwitz (eds.), Theorien und Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften, ca. 15 pp.
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"Otherness? Towards an Intercultural Literary Anthropology", ca. 20 pp.
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"Literaturtheorie - Mode oder Methode?", ca. 20 pp.
REVIEWS
1980
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"Volker Klotz, Abenteuer-Romane", Poetica, 12, 274-282.
1994
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"Edith Mettke (ed.), Tensions between North and South. Studies in Modern Commonwealth Literature and Culture", Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 4, 84-86.
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"Armin Mennecke, Koloniales Bewußtsein in den Romanen J.M. Coetzees", Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 42, 86-88.
1997
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"Nigel Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa", Archiv 234(2), 443-445.
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"Hanno Egner, Genrewechsel. Zum Einfluß der Distributions- und Rezeptionsbedingungen auf die schwarze südafrikanische Literatur der Apartheid-Ära, ZAA, ca. 3pp. (forthcoming).
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"David Fausett, The Strange Surprizing Sources of Robinson Crusoe", Anglia 115(3), 422-426
2003
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"Horst Zander, Fact, Fiction,Faction. A Study of Black South African Literature in English", Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 3 pp.
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"Dominic Head, J.M. Coetzee", Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 3 pp.
2004
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"Jochen Petzold, Re-imagining white Identity by Exploring the Past. History in Novels of the 1990s. (Studies in English Literary and Cultural Histoty - ELCH, 5) Trier, 2002." English in Africa, 31(2), pp. 182-188.
2009
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"Horst Trossbach, von `Kruger`s Alp` nach `Darkest England`, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 3pp. (forthcoming)
"AFRICAN LITERATURES IN ENGLISH"
General editor (with Elmar Lehmann) of "African Literatures in English", a series published by "Die blaue Eule", Essen (ref. SASC Publications).
FROM 2009 ONWARDS:
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Joint editor (together with Zbigniew Bicelas and Pawel Jedrzeijko) of the newly founded English language journal Semicolon on Postcolonial Studies, which is published under the auspices of the University of Silesia and the University of Duisburg-Essen.