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Phone: +27 46 603 8400
Email: s.naidu@ru.ac.za
Fax: +27 046 603 7507
Qualifications:
B.Journ (Rhodes), BA (Hons. Rhodes), MA (Rhodes), PhD (Rhodes & SOAS, University of London)
Biography
Conferences
Commodifying (Post-) Colonialism GNEL/ASNEL Conference, University of Regensburg, Germany, 22-25 May 2008. I presented a paper entitled "Eroticising the Exotic: South Asian Women and Romance Fiction".
Beyong the Book Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, 31 August -02 September 2007. I presented a paper entitled "Eroticising the Exotic: South Asian Women and Romance Fiction".
Gender and Skills for Career Development Conference convened by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, 23-25 May 2007. I presented a paper entitled "On Becoming and African-Asian (Female) Academic in Post-Apartheid South Africa".
International Colloquium on Hybridity in Literature Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, Aug 2006. I gave a paper entitled "Kwathi ke kaloku ngantsomi (It happened in a fantastic tale): George McCall Theal's Hybrid Kaffir Folklore (1882)".
Global Literary Economy Workshop organized by University College London, University of London, 2005.
Young Voices - The 2004 South African Online Writers' Conference organized by LITNET. I submitted a paper entitled "Literature of the South Asian diaspora: Jayapraga Reddy's South African contribution".
Critical Traditions Colloquium, part of the Rhodes University Centenary Celebrations, held in Grahamstown, August 2004. I gave a paper entitled "On Becoming An African-Asian English Academic at Rhodes University".
AUETSA Annual Conference, a national conference held in Durban, July 2004. I presented a paper entitled "Past the Post:Configuring Transcultural Literary Aesthetics in a Post-Postcolonial World".
"Inside the Whale" The Postcolonial and Globalisation, and international conference held at University College Northampton, Nothampton, United Kingdom, July 2003. I presented a paper entitled "Jayapraga Reddy's Narratives of Enablement".
Connecting Cultures, and conference held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, April 2004. I presented a paper entitled "We Are What We Eat: Food and Identity in Prose Writing by Women of the South Asian Diaspora".
AUETSA Annual Conference, a national conference held in Potchefstroom, July 2002. I presented a paper entitled "Towards and Indian Feminist Aesthetic: Transcultural Memoirs and Short Stories of Padma Hejmadi".
Research
South African Crime Fiction
Postcolonial feminist literature, especially prose writing by women of the South Asian diaspora, African-American slave writing, African-American women’s literature.
Oral/written interface in colonial South Africa, English transcriptions of Xhosa folktales, the publication and marketing of indigenous South African orature.
Homer and the influence of Classical western texts on contemporary literature in English.
Thesis
Naidu, Samantha (2000) Transcribing tales, creating cultural identities : an analysis of selected written english texts of Xhosa folktales. Masters thesis, Rhodes University.
Publications
Books:
Realising Human Rights for All: Navi Pillay, Arcadia Books, London, 2010. (See http://www.arcadiabooks.co.uk)
Chapters in Edited Books:
"Life-Writing: The Migrating Selves of Meena Alexander", eds. Singh, Jaspal, K. & Chetty Rajendra. Comparative Poetics in the Literature of Transnational Indian Writers, Northern Michigan University, 2010.
"Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Towards a Transnational Feminist Aesthetic?", eds. Raghuram, Parvati et al. Tracing an Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories and Representations, Sage Publications, 2008.
"South Asian Diasporic Women's Short Fiction: the South African Contribution", eds. Kuortti, Joel & Mittapalli. Rajeshwar, Indian Women's Short Fiction, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2007.
Journal Articles:
"On Becoming an African-Asian English Academic at Rhodes University", African Sociological Review. Vol 9, No.1, 2005.
"The Myth of Authenticity: Folktales and Nationalism in the 'new' South Africa", Scrutiny 2, Vol.6, No.2, 2001.
Book Reviews:
The Writing Circle by Rozena Maart and Shalom India Housing Society by Esther David. In Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing, Issue 57, Spring 2009.
"The Dinner Party" by Don Maclennan. WordStock (official publication of WordFest, project of the National Arts Festival), July 2002.
"African Short Stories: Translating Africa". Review of The Picador Book of African Stories, edited by Stephen Gray. Picador. WordStock (official publication of WordFest, project of the National Arts Festival), July 2001.
Web Publications:
"The Myth of Authenticity: Folktales and Nationalism in the 'new' South Africa", Learning Online South African Literary Encyclopaedia. Internet. www.mweblibrary.com (2001).
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