Dr Sheila Boniface Davies
Sheila Boniface Davies
Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
B.Mus (Wits), BA Hons. (Wits), PhD (Cantab)
email address: s.boniface-davies@ru.ac.za
Sheila left the English Department at the end of July 2012.
Research Interests:
South African literature; historical fiction and drama; book history; cutural studies
Publications:
Edited Volumes:
- Guest-editor (with Chris Andreas and Andrew Offenburger) of a special edition of African Studies, 67:2 (August 2008), "The Whosa Cattle-Killing"
- Guest-editor (with George Horrell) of a special edition of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41:2 (November 2005), "Letters Home: South African Writers Abroad"
Articles:
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"The Cattle-Killing as Propaganda: Leon Schauder's Nongquassi (1939)", African Studies, 67:2 (2008), 183-208
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"Raising the Dead: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing and the Mhlakaza/Goliat Delusion", Journal of Southern African Studies, 33:1 (2007), 19-41
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"Introduction: The Letters Home". with Georgina Horrell, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41:2 (2005), 135-43
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"Book Clubs in South Africa", African Research & Documentation, 83 (2000), 95-105
