Literature and Languages
Staff Information
Professor David Richards
Publications
[2010] Blackwell’s Companion to Postcolonial Literature co-edited volume with S. Chew (Oxford: Blackwell) ISBN: 978-1-4051-3503-0
[2010] ‘Framing Identity’ in Blackwell’s Companion to Postcolonial Literature edited by D Richards and S. Chew (Oxford: Blackwell) ISBN: 978-1-4051-3503-0
[2009] ‘French anthropological discourse’ in Postcolonial Thought in the Francophone World edited by David Murphy and Charles Forsdick Liverpool University Press ISBN: 978-1-846-310553
[2007] ‘Another Architecture’ in Classics in Postcolonial worlds, edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie, Oxford: OUP 2007 ISBN 97801- 992 - 96101 (chapter in book)
[2006] ‘The Palaeolithic Modern: from Altamira to Guernica’ in Victorians and the Ancient World, edited by Richard Pearson, Cambridge Scholars Press ISBN 1-84718-044-2
[2005] Urban Generations: Post-colonial cities Rabat: University of Rabat Press and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, co- edited volume with Taieb Belghazi and Taoufik Agoumy, pp. 481
[2005] ‘Postcolonial Cities: Africa’ co-editor of special issue of Moving Worlds
[2005] Chapter 8, ‘The poetry of Christopher Okigbo’, in Richard Danson Brown and Suman Gupta eds, Aestheticism and Modernism: Debating Twentieth Century Literature 1900- 1960 London: Routledge in association with the Open University, 2005), pp. 375- 401. ISBN 0415351685
[2004] ‘Translating desire: Abdelkebir Khatibi, Calligraphy and the bilangue’ Moving Worlds 4: 1 ISSN 095407513
[2003] Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art, Translated into Chinese by Zhonglian Yan, Liaoning: Liaoning Education Press, pp. 411. ISBN 7538264302/G4497
[2003] ‘“So where is Cythera?”: Walcott’s painted islands’ Kunapipi XXV 1 ISSN 0106- 5734 02
[2002] ‘Death and the King’s Horseman and the Masks of Language’ in The Norton Critical Edition of Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka; edited by Simon Gikandi, New York: Norton ISBN 0393977617
[2001] ‘The Allegory of Things: the cultural politics of ruins’, in Local/Global Cultures, edited by Taieb Belghazi, Rabat: University of Rabat Press and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation ISBN 9981590436
[2001] ‘Staging the word: the spectacle of the text in African literature’, special issue of Interventions on ‘African Reader’ edited by Prof. Lyn Innes ISSN 1369- 801X 02
[2001] ‘Making (Pre-)History: Mycenae, Pausanias, Frazer’ in Re- constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission, edited by Maureen Bell, Shirley Chew, Simon Elliot, Lynette Hunter and James L. W. West III, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp112- 123 ISBN 0754603601
[2000] ‘‘Canvas of Blood’: Okigbo’s African Modernism’ in Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations edited by Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray, Basingstoke: Macmillan pp. 229- 240 ISBN 0333723392
[1999] ‘“The culture of displacement and its effects”: Frazer, Freud and Others’ in Imagined Commonwealths: Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English, ed. by T. J. Cribb, Basingstoke: Macmillan, Cambridge Commonwealth Series, pp. 269- 95 ISBN 0333738608
[1999] ‘Moroccans and modernity’, New Times: the journal of the Democratic Left, 3, May 1999, p.12 ISSN 0960-748x
[1998] ‘Reading the Colonial Text: ‘Captain John’ and ‘Desperate Jack’, Offshoot: A Journal of Translation and Comparative Studies, volume 1 no. 1, pp. 9- 31 ISSN 1113-9897
[1998] ‘Preface’ to Khalid Bekkaoui’s Signs of Spectacular Resistance: The Spanish Moor and British Orientalism Casablanca: Najah el Jadida pp. i-iv ISBN 9981191000
[1997] ‘Being There’, British Moroccan Comparative Cultural Studies Newsletter, Autumn 1997, pp. 8- 12
[1996] ‘Lost Body’: Reading Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone’, in Borderblur: Poetry and Poetics in Contemporary Canadian Literature, edited by Shirley Chew and Lynette Hunter, Quadriga: Edinburgh pp. 120- 134, ISBN 1859330061
[1996] ‘The Man Died in Africa 95’, Review of African Political Economy, vol. 23, no. 68, pp 139- 147 ISSN 0305- 6244 02
[1995] Masks of Difference: Cultural Representations in Literature, Anthropology and Art, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 348. ISBN 0521444586 & 052147972X.
[1992] ‘A History of Interruptions’: The Fictions of Ben Okri and Neil Bissoondath’, From Commonwealth to Postcolonial, ed. Anna Rutherford, Coventry: Dangaroo, pp. 74- 82. ISBN 1871049423
[1991] ‘Burning Down the House’ in Lynette Hunter and Coral Anne Howells (eds.), Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature, Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 49- 60, ISBN 0335097707
[1990] ‘Repossessing Time: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah ‘, in Chinua Achebe: A Celebration, edited by Kirsten Holst Petersen and Anna Rutherford, Heinemann Studies in African Literature, pp. 130- 8 ISBN 0435905848
[1990] ‘West Indian Literature’ in Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall and John Peck (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Literature and Criticism, London: Routledge, pp. 1198- 1210, ISBN 0415020654
[1990] ‘A Tour of Babel: Sir James Frazer and Theories of Language’, in Robert Fraser (ed.) Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 81- 100 ISBN 0333486838
[1990] “Leave the Dead some room to dance!” Margaret Laurence and Africa, in Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 16- 35. ISBN 03334606932950
[1990] ‘Repossessing Time: Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah ‘, in Kunapipi: Special Issue, Vol. XII No. 2, pp. 56- 67 ISSN 0106- 5734 02
[1990] ‘Eagle on Iroko: Chinua Achebe at Sixty’, Southern African Review of Books , vol. 3, no 6. 16, pp. 17- 19 ISSN 0952- 8040
[1986] Neil Lazarus’s Resistance in Postcolonial Fiction’ in Wasafiri, no 12, pp. 44- 48 ISSN 0269-0055
[1986] ‘The Scottish Connection’, Cencrastus, no. 20. pp. 25- 28 ISSN 0264- 0856 02
[1985] ‘Language and Identity in Canadian and Irish Poetry’, in G. Nicolson and P. Easingwood (eds.), Canadian Story and History 1885- 1985 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 92- 101 ISBN 090524401X
[1985] Gaile Macgregor’s The Wacousta Syndrome in British Journal of Canadian Studies p.145 ISSN 0269-9222
[1985] Jane Millgate’s Walter Scott: the Making of a Novelist in ARIEL, vol. 18, p.37- 40 ISSN 0004-1327
[1984] ‘Nineteenth Century Scottish and Canadian Fiction: The examples of Major John Richardson and Sir Walter Scott’, ed. S. Chew, Re- Visions of Canadian Literature, Leeds: IBTC, pp. 3- 14 ISBN 0951030604
[1984] ‘“Owe L’Esin Oro” - Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. xix, no 1, pp. 86- 97 ISSN 0021- 9894 02
[1984] Catherine Sheldrick Ross’s Recovering Canada’s First Novelist in British Journal of Canadian Studies , p. 166 ISSN 0269-9222
[1983 -1984] A series of 12 articles for EFL Gazette (Maxine Hong Kingston, Karen Blixen, Arthur Koestler, Andre Brink, Vladimir Nabokov, Ngugi wa’ Thiongo, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Anais Nin, Wole Soyinka, F.R. Leavis, A. K. Ramanujan, Amos Tutuola)
[1983] ‘Malcolm Lowry’, in A. Bullock & R.B.Woodings (eds), The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought , London: Fontana, pp. 459- 60 ISBN 0002163292
Forthcoming
Traces: a cultural history of the archaic (provisional title) contracted by Manchester University Press [monograph]