Leon De Kock

  • Stellenbosch University
  • Professor, Literature
  • South Africa

My Publications

From "bush" to "farm": Emplacement and displacement in contemporary white Zimbabwean na...

  • The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
  • March 2015

The crime novel in post-apartheid South Africa: a preliminary investigation

  • Scrutiny2
  • January 2014

The <i>Confessio</i> of an Academic Ahab: Or, How I Sank My Own Disciplinary Ship

  • English in Africa
  • October 2013

The Digital David and the Gutenberg Goliath: The Rise of the ‘Enhanced’ e-book

  • English Academy Review
  • May 2013

Deepening the ‘Shallows’: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, Revisited

  • Current Writing
  • May 2013

So, What Should Academic Critics be Doing, on the Edge of the Now – Skimming the Surfac...

  • English Studies in Africa
  • October 2012

‘History’, ‘Literature’, and ‘English’: Reading the Lovedale Missionary Record within S...

  • English Academy Review
  • June 2012

A vast domain of death: decomposition and decay in Marlene van Niekerk'sDie Kortstondig...

  • South African Theatre Journal
  • March 2012

The Call of the Wild: Speculations on a White Counterlife in South Africa

  • English in Africa
  • June 2010

NOTES ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF ‘SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH WRITING’

  • English Studies in Africa
  • May 2010

Framing essay: Performing public wisdom

  • Social Dynamics
  • March 2010

Cracking the Code: Translation as Transgression inTriomf

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • September 2009

Intimate Enemies: A Discussion with Marlene van Niekerk and Michiel Heyns aboutAgaatand...

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • September 2009

Judging new ‘South African’ fiction in the transnational moment

  • Current Writing
  • January 2009

Making the Body Public

  • English Academy Review
  • October 2008

A HISTORY OF RESTLESSNESS: AND NOW FOR THE REST

  • English Studies in Africa
  • January 2008

HOW SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE GOT SQUEEZED OUT, AND THEN SLIPPED IN: ENGLISH ACADEMIC LI...

  • English Studies in Africa
  • January 2008

The Gold Standard in English Literary Discourse: Some Functions of the Academic Article...

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • June 2007

Don't go Wessa, young man

  • Scrutiny2
  • May 2007

Blanc de blanc: Whiteness studies – a South African connection?

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • June 2006

'Naming of parts', or, how things shape up in transcultural literary history

  • Literator
  • July 2005

Translating Triomf: The shifting limits of “ownership” in literary translation or: Neve...

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • December 2003

Splice of life: Manipulations of the “real” in South African English literary culture

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • March 2003

Poems by Fiona Zerbst, John Eppel, Gus Ferguson, Leon de Kock

  • Scrutiny2
  • January 2003

South Africa in the Global Imaginary: An Introduction

  • Poetics Today
  • June 2001

Sitting for the Civilization Test: The Making(s) of a Civil Imaginary in Colonial South...

  • Poetics Today
  • June 2001

The trouble with Afrikaans

  • Scrutiny2
  • January 2001

Poetry

  • English Academy Review
  • December 1999

Poetry

  • English Academy Review
  • December 1998

Sinking into history

  • Scrutiny2
  • January 1997

The Dickens circus: Dickens, Empire & Children, Rhodes University, September 1996

  • Scrutiny2
  • January 1997

Facts and fiction

  • Scrutiny2
  • January 1996

Poetry

  • English Academy Review
  • December 1995

The ruptures of the particular: Against generalised critiques of generalised cultural r...

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • December 1995

For and Against the Comaroffs: Postmodernist Puffery and Competing Conceptions of the ‘...

  • South African Historical Journal
  • November 1994

The Central South African Story, or Many Stories? A Response to ‘Red People and School ...

  • English Academy Review
  • December 1993

Contending with the Information Narrative

  • South African Historical Journal
  • November 1993

Book Reviews/Boekbesprekings

  • South African Historical Journal
  • November 1993

Postcolonial analysis and the question of critical disablement

  • Current Writing
  • January 1993

‘People, Power & Culture’ and the Ethics of Historical Representation

  • South African Historical Journal
  • November 1992

English and the colonisation of form

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • June 1992

Book Review/Boekbesprekings

  • South African Historical Journal
  • May 1992

Literature, politics and universalism: A debate between Es'kia Mphahlele and J.M. Coetzee

  • Journal of Literary Studies
  • December 1987

Naming of Parts, or, How Things Shape Up in Trans cultural Literary History

‘A change of tongue’: questions of translation