Nationality
🇿🇦 South Africa
Affiliation
English Department, Rhodes University
Residencies at STIAS
2017 2nd Semester / 2019 2nd Semester
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Revising the Black Atlantic: African Diaspora Perspectives

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Revising the Black Atlantic: African Diaspora Perspectives

Published in 1993, Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness is unarguably one of the seminal critical texts of the twentieth century.
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Five candidates selected as first STIAS Iso Lomso Fellows

Five candidates out of over 250 who applied for the Iso Lomso fellowship programme, which was announced in February 2016, have been selected to receive this prestigious award.
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(Re)Imagining Africa(ns) in the world - Fellow's seminar by Aretha Phiri

What makes a real African? What is Africanness based on?
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Iso Lomso Fellowship call now open - apply by 20 October 2018

Early career African researchers who have completed their doctoral studies during the preceding seven years are invited to apply for the Iso Lomso fellowship.
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The audacity of imagining (African) history anew - Fellows' seminar by Aretha Phiri

I struggle with the ways in which contemporary African writers, in particular, continue to be assessed by their ability to represent and be representative of African ‘realities’.
 Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go

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Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go

Phiri, Aretha. 2019. Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In Emilia María Durán-Almarz...
 Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go

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Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go

Phiri, Aretha. 2020. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In James Hodapp (Ed.), Afropolitan ...
 The race for reparation(s), the (im)possibility of repair in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull

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The race for reparation(s), the (im)possibility of repair in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull

Phiri, Aretha. 2020. The race for reparation(s), the (im)possibility of repair in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull. Safundi, 2...
 Introduction: Re-reading the Canon, Re-reading Africa

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Introduction: Re-reading the Canon, Re-reading Africa

Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Introduction: Re-reading the Canon, Re-reading Africa. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Cano...
 Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World

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Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World

Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading t...
 African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon

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African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon

Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498571241/...
 Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating 21st -Century American Politics

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Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating 21st -Century American Politics

Phiri, Aretha. 2020. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating 21st -Century American Politics. English Studies in Africa, 63(1), 45–58. https://doi...
 Response

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Response

Phiri, Aretha. 2021. Response. Interventions, 23(1), 170–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1843518
 The Ludic Impulse: Race Narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light

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The Ludic Impulse: Race Narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light

Phiri, Aretha. 2022. The Ludic Impulse: Race Narratives ‘at play’ in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light. In S. Colvi...
 Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M Wright

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Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M Wright

Phiri, Aretha and Michelle M. Wright. 2023. Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright. Cultural Studies...
 Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures

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Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures

Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 316–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2...
 Reframing the Black Atlantic

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Reframing the Black Atlantic

Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Reframing the Black Atlantic. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898
 (In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa

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(In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa

Phiri, Aretha. 2021. (In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa. In T. Roynon & M. C. Conner (Eds.), Global Ralph Ellison: Aesthet...
 Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First Century American Politic

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Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First Century American Politic

Phiri, Aretha. 2022. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First Century American Politics. In M. A. Williams (Ed.), Cultures of Populism...
 Reframing the Black Atlantic

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Reframing the Black Atlantic

Phiri, Aretha. 2024. Reframing the Black Atlantic. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/978100347300