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Aretha Phiri

South Africa
English Department
Rhodes University
Iso Lomso Fellow:
  • 2017 Second Semester
  • 2019 Second Semester

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This project offers a fresh, comparative, transatlantic and transnational analysis of leading African-American author, Toni Morrison’s, work on blackness through the diasporic lens of contemporary female...
 

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Phiri, Aretha. 2022. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating Twenty-First Century American Politics. In M. A. Williams (Ed.), Cultures of Populism: Institutions, Practices and Resistance (pp. 100–113). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Cultures-of-Populism-Institutions-Practices-and-Resistance/Williams/p/book/9780367715625

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Phiri, Aretha. 2021. (In)visible Man: Tracing Ralph Ellison’s Legacy to South Africa. In T. Roynon & M. C. Conner (Eds.), Global Ralph Ellison: Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders (pp. 155–187). Oxford: Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1140577

Journal Article

Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Reframing the Black Atlantic. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104898

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Phiri, Aretha. 2023. Migrating narratives: re-inscribing black diaspora cultures. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 316–332. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104895

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Phiri, Aretha and Michelle M. Wright. 2023. Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright. Cultural Studies, 37(2), 333–340. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104896

 

Book/Book Chapter

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. Colvin & S. Galasso (Eds.), Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency (pp. 151–175). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003254317-11

 

Journal Article

Phiri, Aretha. 2021. Response. Interventions, 23(1), 170–175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1843518

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Phiri, Aretha. 2020. Trumping the House that Race Built: Deracinating 21st -Century American Politics. English Studies in Africa, 63(1), 45–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2020.1780751

Book/Book Chapter

Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498571241/African-Philosophical-and-Literary-Possibilities-Re-reading-the-Canon

Book/Book Chapter

Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Transgressing Borders: (Re)imagining Africa(ns) in the World. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498571241/African-Philosophical-and-Literary-Possibilities-Re-reading-the-Canon

Book/Book Chapter

Phiri, Aretha. (Ed.). 2020. Introduction: Re-reading the Canon, Re-reading Africa. In African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-reading the Canon2. Lexington Books. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498571241/African-Philosophical-and-Literary-Possibilities-Re-reading-the-Canon

Journal Article

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, 21(1), 69–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2020.1698695

Book/Book Chapter

Phiri, Aretha. 2020. Fingering the Jagged Grain: Rereading Afropolitanism (and Africa) in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In James Hodapp (Ed.), Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (1st ed.). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afropolitan-literature-as-world-literature-9781501342608/

Book/Book Chapter

Phiri, Aretha. 2019. Lost in translation: re-reading the contemporary Afrodiasporic condition in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go. In Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Carla Rodriguez González (Eds.), Debating the Afropolitan (1st ed.). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Debating-the-Afropolitan-1st-Edition/Duran-Almarza-Kabir-Rodriguez-Gonzalez/p/book/9780367085780#toc

 

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