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Recovering Franz Kafka's asbestos factory
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 4 June 2022)This article recalls Franz Kafka’s part ownership of the asbestos factory, Prague Asbestwerke Hermann & Co. to introduce two forms of literary recovery, exemplified by Alan Bennett’s 1985 television play, The Insurance ... -
Russia’s Mediterranean Moment: Constellations of Sovereignty and the Making of a Region, 1770–1830
(University of Chicago Press, 1 March 2024)The 1768–74 Russian-Ottoman war opened a new realm of Russian activity: the Mediterranean. This article argues for the formation of the Russian Mediterranean, a region encompassing the waters and shores of the Eastern ... -
Limestone Poetics in Adrian Stokes, W. H. Auden and Kamau Braithwaite
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Beckett, Barthes and breath
(Edinburgh University Press, 7 July 2022)This essay develops a tense relation between Samuel Beckett and Roland Barthes over their treatment of breath. If Barthes’s lovers come together through a shared breath, breaths pull Beckett’s couples apart. How then might ... -
Millenarian modernism in H. I. E. Dhlomo’s The girl who killed to save
(Routledge / UNISA Press, 28 April 2022)This essay takes as its starting point the final scene of H. I. E. Dhlomo’s The Girl who Killed to Save (1935). Ostensibly an account of ‘Nongqause the Liberator,’ the prophet behind the Cattle Killing of 1856–1857, ...