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
‘A change of tongue’: questions of translation
January 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