Articles

Articles

2023

“Zambia and the Drift of World Literature”, Research in African Literatures 53 (3)  pp. 104-117.

2019

“God’s Arrows”, Research in African Literatures 49 (4), pp. 85-106.  

2018

“Zimbabwe’s Fictions and Rebellious Entextualisation: ‘All the xenophobia, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and yugoslavia’ ”, Interventions 20 (4), pp. 529-584.  

2015

“2000s: Expansion and Change” (co-authored with Stephen Morton), Journal of Commonwealth Literature 50 (3), pp. 353-368.

2014

“At Home in the World? Re-framing Zambia’s Literature in English”, Journal of Southern African Studies 40 (3), pp. 575-592. 

2013

“The Soft Things in Life: Detection and Manhood in South-Eastern Africa” and “Introduction: In/Visibility and African Thrillers”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 49 (1), pp 100-110 and 71-73 respectively.

2012

“Legends of Modern Zambia”, Research in African Literatures 43 (4), pp. 50-70.

2012

Reasons for Reading in Postcolonial Zambia”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 48 (5), pp. 497-511. 

2011

”Dialogues across Boundaries in two Southern African Thrillers”, Journal of Commonwealth Literature 46 (1), pp. 157-172, and “Editorial: Debating Local Cosmopolitanisms”, Ibid, pp. 3-7. 

2010

“Cosmopolitanism and Social Change in a Zambian Thriller”, Research in African Literatures, 41 (3), pp. 49-61.

2008

“The Modern City and Citizen Efficacy in a Zambian Novel”, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 44 (1), pp. 49-60, and “Introduction: City, Text, Future”, Ibid, pp. 1-4 

2008

“’Dictatorships are Transient’: Chenjerai Hove interviewed by Ranka Primorac”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43 (1), pp. 135-146.   

2007

“The Heart of the City: Postcolonial Subjectivities in Contemporary Zambian Women’s Writing”, Scrutiny 2 12 (2), 20-31.  

2007

“The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-First Century Zimbabwe”, Interventions 9 (3), pp. 435-451.

2006

“Burnt Toast and Manhood: Gendered Imaginings of the Nation in 1990s Popular Fiction”, The Round Table 95 (384), pp. 255-264

2005

“Blood on the Sand: Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning and the Zimbabwean Tradition”, Wasafiri 46, pp. 11-16. 

2004

“’The Place of the Woman is the Place of the Imagination’: Yvonne Vera interviewed by Ranka Primorac”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39 (3), pp. 157-171.  

2004

“The Imagination of Land and the Reality of Seizure” (co-authored with Stephen Chan), The Journal of International Affairs at Columbia University 57 (2), pp. 63 – 80. 

2003

“The Novel in a House of Stone: Re-categorising Zimbabwean Fiction”, The Journal of Southern African Studies 29 (1), pp. 49-62.  

2001

”Crossing Into the Space-Time of Memory: Borderline Identities in Novels by Yvonne Vera”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 36 (2), pp. 77-93.