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Phone: +27 46 603 8400
Email: m.dass@ru.ac.za
Fax: +27 046 603 7507
Qualifications:
Minesh Dass has recently completed a Master's dissertation which was a historiographic reading of Zoë Wicomb's David's Story (2000). He has also previously published on Phaswane Mpe's novel Welcome To Our Hillbrow (2001). His current research interests focus on the representation of home in recent post-apartheid fiction, theories of literature, and the poetic expression of the American Dream in lyrics of modern American music.
Further Details
Conferences Attended:
1) AUETSA Conference 2006 held at the University of Cape Town.
Delivered a paper titled "Response and Responsibility in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome To Our Hilbrow".
2) The Es'kia Mphahlele Postgraduate Colloquium and Arts Form, 4-6 Septermber 2009.
Delivered a paper titled "amanuensis' and 'steatopygia': the complexity of 'telling the tale' in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story". Received the prize for best paper at this Colloquium.
3) Delivered a paper titled "'a place in which to cry': The Place for Race and the Home for Shame in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light" at the "The Cape and the Cosmopolitan: Reading Zoë Wicomb" conference in Stellenbosch, 8-10 April 2010.
Publications
1) "Response and Responsibility in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hilbrow". In. Alternation. Vol 11 (1). 2004
2) "Narrative Miscegination in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story: a 'shame' that is ours". Forthcoming in Scrutiny2.
3) "'amanuensis' and 'steatopygia': the complexity of 'telling the tale' in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story". Forthcoming in English in Africa.
4) 'A place in which to cry': The Place for Race and the Home for Shame in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the light. Forthcoming in Current Writing.
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